Originally trained in analog photography, Kelly Akashi (born 1983, Los Angeles) is drawn to materials like glass, wax, and bronze for their alchemical potential to change states. The artist blows and sculpts these fluid materials into forms bearing the literal imprint of her body’s breath and touch. She regularly makes unique life casts of her […]

Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist is the first solo museum presentation of the work of Yolanda López, the pathbreaking Chicana artist and activist whose career in California spanned five decades. The exhibition presents a compendium of López’s work from the 1970s and 1980s, when she created an influential body of paintings, drawings, and collages that […]

Liliana Porter’s surreal compositions using toys interrogate the boundaries between representation and reality. Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News is a focused presentation of Porter’s expansive conceptual practice, highlighting her skilled evocation of poignant philosophical and political questions through otherwise simple gestures and miniature objects.

In the 1960s, artists in Northern California embraced an attitude towards art-making that was irreverent, bawdy, and free-spirited, which resonated with artists across the country who rejected the mainstream art world. Through objects primarily drawn from SJMA’s permanent collection, this exhibition focuses on the convergence of these artists around the Candy Store Gallery, and the […]

Forensic Architecture (FA) presents their research on “Death Alley,” using architectural and environmental analysis; FA examines the impacts of colonialism and slavery, offering tools to help combat a 300-year continuum of environmental racism.