Western Museums Association
Current Exhibitions in California

African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland
   

 

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

   

 

Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles

Ongoing Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America
November 10, 2006 - April 22, 2007 Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, Part II, 1970 - present

 

Banning Residence Museum, Wilmington

 

Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.

 

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The Beat Museum, San Francisco.

 


Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek.


Berkeley Art Museum. see UC/Berkeley Art Museum

Blackhawk Museum, Danville

Ongoing International Automotive Treasures

 

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas.

Ongoing Shipwrecks: Photographs by Gertrude Southworth and New Artifacts

 

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

Ongoing

Contemporary Netsuke: Miniature Sculpture from Japan and Beyond

 

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido

 

 

California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica.

California Historical Society, San Francisco.

February 7 - August 30, 2008 The Chinese of California: A Struggle for Community

California Museum of Photography, Riverside; see UCR/California Museum of Photography.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Ongoing The Triumph of Prudence and The Triumph of Fortitude
 Ongoing Flora and Pomona

 

California Science Center, Los Angeles

Ongoing
World of Life Gallery – life sciences
Creative World Gallery – human innovation
SKETCH Foundation Gallery – air & space

 

California’s Remarkable Women Treasures from the Trunk: California Pioneer Quilts and Textiles

California Museum of Women, History, and the Arts, Sacramento

Permanent California Hall of Fame
Ongoing Uprooted: Japanese Americans During World War II
Ongoing Latina’s: The Spirit of California
Ongoing
Through April 13, 2008 Treasures From Hearst Castle
Through June 30, 2008
Through November 2008 2007 California Hall of Fame

 

California State University Long Beach, University Art Museum, Long Beach 

   

 

California State University, Janet Turner Print Collection & Gallery,Chico

   

 

California State University, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles.

California State University, Fullerton. Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana

   

 

Catalina Island Museum, Avalon

   

 

Chaffey College, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga

   

 

Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont

Permanent Building a Legacy: Founding a Museum, Building a Collection
May 18 - August 31, 2008 Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk
September 21 – December 28, 2008 Multiverse
September 21 – December 28, 2008 The Passerby Museum

 

Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Yuba.

   


Coronado Historical Museum, Coronado.

 

Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Yuba.

   

 

The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

June 8, 2008 -January 4, 2009 In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis
June 8, 2008 - From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig
June 8, 2008 - John Zorn Presents the Aleph-Bet Project

fall 2008

Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

 

Craft and Folk Art Museum. Los Angeles

   

 

Chinese PorcelainEarly California Painting Collection

White Gold: The Kathy and Ron Gillmeister Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

Ongoing

 
Northern California Art Since 1945
European Paintings from the Collection
May 10 - July 27, 2008The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
August 16 - November 2, 2008American Pop: Featuring Andy Warhol’s Athletes from the Richard Weisman Collection
November 14, 2008 - January 11, 2009The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons
January 30 - April 19, 2009Buddha
May 8 - July 19, 2009Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
August 7 - October 18, 2009Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists

 

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de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
 

 

Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts, Cherry Valley

   

 

Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Carmichael.

   

 

Falkirk Cultural Center, San Raphael.

   

 

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

   


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. See M.H. De Young Memorial Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor .

Folsom History Museum, Folsom
April 26 - July 14, 2008 Play Ball: A History of the Giants
August 1 - September 30, 2008
28th Annual Antique Quilt and Vintage Clothing Show

 

Fort Crook Museum, Fall River Mills

   

 

Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. See UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. See Pepperdine University

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno

   

 

A Renaissance Cabinet RediscoveredCasting Nature; Francois-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Ongoing
July 11, 2006 - March 25, 2007

 

Golden State Museum, Sacramento

   

 

Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah.

   

 

Grier Musser Museum, Los Angeles
   

 

Haggin Museum, Stockton

   

 

Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga

OngoingFrank Lobdell, Master Artist


Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. See UCB Phoebe A. Hearst Museum

Hollywood Entertainment Museum, Hollywood

Homestead Museum, City of Industry.

Hudson Museum, Ukiah

   


Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach.

 

Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Ongoing

Reflecting Glass
OngoingWho Needs a Title Anyway? TAG exhibition
Feb. 15–May 12, 2008 Smith on Wry: Jack Smith, Columnist for Our Times
May 24 - September 14, 2008D.J. Hall: Thirty-Five Year Retrospective
June 14, 2008 – Sept. 15, 2008 This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs
Through October 19, 2008From Picasso to Moore: Modern Sculpture from the Weiner Collection
Oct. 18, 2008–Jan. 5, 2009A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Charles and Henry
Oct. 2008 – Jan. 2009Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure

 

International Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach
  Surfing Walk of Fame
  Endless Summer
  Local Legends

 

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts: see Stanford University

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles

 

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
OngoingCommon Ground: The Heart of Community
A Process of Reflection: Paintings by Hisako Hibi

 

Judah l. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
   


Kala Art Institute, Berkeley,


Korean American Museum, Los Angeles.

La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
   

 

The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale.

OngoingLace and Lace-making Tools


Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture, Los Angeles.


Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek. See Bedford Gallery

 

Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek
   

 

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach.
   

 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Ongoing

Mexican Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection

 

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
   

 

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles
   

 

The Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
November 2007 - April 2008 Louise Nevelson: A Story in Sculpture

 

 The Judah L. Magnes Museum,  Berkeley

   

 

 Marin History Museum, San Raphael

  Louise Arner Boyd: Marin's Artic Explorer

 

Merced County Courthouse Museum,  Merced

   

 

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
   

 

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey
   

 

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey

Ongoing

La Mirada: Restless Seas: Works by Armin Hansen

Ongoing La Mirada: Charles M. Russell Bronzes
Ongoing La Mirada: The Art and Craft of Japanese Packaging: Gifts from Robert H. Skiles
  La Mirada: William F. Ritschel: Views of the Sea
  Pacific Street: MMA Biennial Awards

 

 

Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz.

   

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
   

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

PermanentLa Jolla: The Garden Gallery
PermanentLa Jolla: West Coast Cairn: Andrew Goldsworthy
OngoingDowntown: Luis Jimenez, Cruzando El Rio Bravo (Border Crossing)
Through April 13, 2008Downtown: Rober Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries
Through May 4, 2008La Jolla: Erwin Redl: Matrix II
Through May 4, 2008Soundwaves: The Art of Samplilng

 

Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco
   

 

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.
   

 

Museum of Miniatures (The Carole and Barry Kaye Museum of Miniatures), Los Angeles.

 

Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles.
   

 

Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco
March 15 - August 30, 2008 Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet

 

Museum of Vintage Fashion, Walnut Creek
   

 

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

   

 

Napa Valley Museum, Yountville

OngoingThe Land and People of Napa Valley and Jews of the Napa Valley
OngoingCalifornia Wine: The Science of an Art
February 23 - May 4, 2008Pirkle Jones  -  Berryessa Valley: the Last Year

 

Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland

   

 

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland

OngoingCalifornia: A Place, A People, A Dream
OngoingGallery of California Art
OngoingWalk Across California
December 1, 2007 - June 2009The Art and History of Early California
Through March 30, 2008 Told From A Totem: Student Sculptures
January 19 - April 6, 2008Trading Traditions: California's New Cultures
March 15 - October 12, 2008In Our Own Backyard: A Celebration of the East Bay Regional Parks
April 19 &l 20 , 2008Wildflower Show
May 17-August 17, 2008 Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
May 17-August 17, 2008 Cool Remixed

 

 

Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena

Ongoing

Rarely Seen Objects from the Permanent Collection Including Ceramics from the Lydman, Snukal and Otto Collections

Ongoing

The Margot and Hans Ries Collection of Southeast Asian Ceramics

 

 

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove.

PermanentRollo Beck taxidermied specimens

 

Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

Ongoing

Fossils from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits

 

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs

October 17 - December 23, 2008 Bill Viola: the Crossing
February 15 - May 4, 2008 Julius Shulman: Palm Springs
Through October 19, 2008 Picasso to Moore: Modern Sculpture from the Weiner Collection

Pardee Home, Oakland, CA.


Parks California, State Museum Resource Center, West Sacramento.

Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena
   

 

Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont
   

 

Pepperdine University,  Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu


May 17 – August 3, 2008
 

Reflections from the Artist's Eye: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles.

Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont
   

 

Presidio Officers’ Club Exhibition Hall, San Francisco
May 4 - June 15, 2008 Transforming Art: The Art of Chris Hardman

 

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Long Beach
OngoingSatellite Museum: Easing Her Burden: 19th Century Innovations for the Home

 

Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda.

San Bernardino County Museum.

   

 

San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego.

 

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego

OngoingAmerican Art: Selections from the Collection
Ongoing
Backs
Ongoing La Jolla: Garden Gallery
February 2–April 27, 2008
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape Painting
February 2–April 27, 2008 Plein Air Past and Present: A Collaboration Between SDMA and the Lux Art Institute
February 23–May 18, 2008
Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1883–1966)
Through June 15, 2008
Designs on Each Other: Indian Paintings and European Prints
Through July 13, 2008
Tastes in Asian Art
March 8–June 22, 2008
Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists Construct Social Art
March 15–June 15, 2008
Mexico: Promise and Possibility
May 24–September 28, 2008
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle

 

San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego
   

 

San Dieguito Heritage Museum, Encinitas
   

 

S.F.Camerawork, San Francisco
   

 

San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco
   

 

San Francisco State University Museum of Ancient Civilizations, San Francisco
April 7 - May 2, 2008Dynasty: The Ancestral Arts of China

 

San Francisco State University, International Center for the Arts , San Francisco
   

 

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose.
   

 

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose.
   

 

San Jose State University, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose
   

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
  Undersea Mysteries: The Secret Life of Ocean Creatures
  Classifying Nature: The World of Carl Linnaeus
  Early Navajo Weavings from the Anthropology collection

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara.
Behind the ScenesEarly Navajo Weavings from the Anthropology Collection

 

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
   

 

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica

   

 

Seymour Pioneer Museum, San Francisco
   

 

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

OngoingVisions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America


Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
PermanentSonoma County: The Chosen Spot of All the Earth
  Obsession: Art and Artifacts from Sonoma County Private Collections
  Rob Keller: Be(e)ing

 

Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts., Stanford

OngoingThe Life and Legacy of the Stanford Family
Ongoing African Art in Context
Ongoing Auguste Rodin Collection
OngoingLiving Traditions: Arts of the Americas
April 30 - August 17, 2008Experiments in Navigation: The Art of Charles Hobson
June 4 - October 5, 2008Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
July 23 - November 9, 2008Richard Diebenkorn, Artist, and Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Connection
July 23 - November 9, 2008Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper
November 5, 2008 - August 16, 2009A Decade of Collecting

 

Triton Museum of Art, and Rose Shenson Community Art Gallery, Santa Clara.

Ongoing

Austen D. Warburton Collection of American Indian Art and Artifacts

 

Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding
   

 

UC/Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Through May 2008Gay Outlaw: Black Hose Mountain
Through June 27, 2008 James Lee Byars: The Perfect Audience
Through July, 2008 Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed
Through July, 2008 Selections from the Collection
October 13, 2007 - July 20, 2008Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
February 13 - May 18, 2008Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia
March 9 – May 18, 2008 MATRIX/REDUX
March 12 - June 1, 2008Protest in Paris 1968: The Photographs of Serge Hambourg
March 12 – June 27, 2008 Held Rectangles
June 1 - September 14, 2008Trevor Paglen
June 4 - July 20, 2008Bruce Conner
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

UCB Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley
February 1, 2007 -

From the Land of the Rajas: Creativity in Rajasthan

 

UC Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery
   


UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

 

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles

OngoingReflecting Culture: the Francis E. Fowler, Jr. Collection of Silver
February 23 - June 15, 2008
Make Art/Stop AIDS

 

UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside

OngoingZeiss Cameras

 

UCR Sweeny Art Gallery, Riverside

   

 

University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles
   

 

USS Pampanito, National Maritime Museum Association, San Francisco
OngoingVoices of the Silent Service

 

Vacaville Museum, Vacaville
   

 

Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo
   

 

Ventura County Museum of History & Art, Ventura

Ongoing

Ventura County in the New West

 

Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles
   

 

Wells Fargo History Museum, San Francisco
OngoingWells Fargo, Since 1852

 

William Grant Still Arts Center
   

 

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
   

 

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