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.

Thinking beyond exhibitions that are about prisons and instead oriented towards artists who help provide a vision–and a model–of abolition in practice, Seeing Through Stone highlights global networks of care and abolitionist world-building.

This landmark exhibition surveys the work of Christina Fernandez, the Los Angeles-based artist who has spent thirty years exploring migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the unique capacities of the photographic medium.