Exhibitions

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  • Xavier Tizoc Martinez, Untitled (A Southwest Indian on Kiva), n.d. Oil on canvas, 27.75 x 32.75 inches. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, gift of the family of Mrs. Myra J. Browne.

    Inspiration Points: Masterpieces of California Landscape
    May 31–August 11, 2013

    OMCA opens the vaults to showcase the very best in California landscape art from the museum’s holdings, including works by Ansel Adams, Thomas Hill, David Hockney, William Keith, Arthur Mathews, Richard Misrach, Thomas Moran, and more.

  • Hard Times in the OC
    May 18, 2013–April 27, 2014

    This installation in the Gallery of California History co-curated with faculty and students at California State University Fullerton focuses on the effects of the 2008 recession in Orange County.

  • September. 2001. Oil on canvas. 66 x 66 inches (167.74 x 167.74 cm). Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky.

    Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu
    March 16–June 30, 2013

    The first comprehensive survey of the artwork of Hung Liu—one of the most prominent Chinese painters working in the United States today.

  • Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Niki (Going Out) , 2000. Fuji Crystal archive print, 30 x 39 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, purchased with funds from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

    Beth Yarnelle Edwards: Suburban Dreams
    January 19–June 30, 2013

    This exhibition explores the relationships between people, their living spaces, and their possessions through 20 large-scale color photographs of carefully-staged domestic scenes.

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Peter Stackpole, Catwalk and Marin Tower, 1936. Gelatin silver print, 6.25 x 9.375 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland Museum of California Founders Fund.

    Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay
    July 20, 2013–January 12, 2014

    This exhibition features stunning black-and-white photographs chronicling the original San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge construction in the 1930s.

  • Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay
    August 30, 2013–February 23, 2014

    Presented on the occasion of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s (SFOBB) new East Bay span, this multidisciplinary exhibition highlights historic and contemporary stories about the Bay,  and explores how human engineering and natural forces have come together over time to shape and reshape the land and water around the San Francisco Bay.

  • Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Shaun Roberts.

    The Tree of Life and Death: Días de los Muertos 2013
    October 9–December 8, 2013

    The 19th annual Días de los Muertos exhibition in the transformed Gallery of California Natural Sciences fuses themes of life, death, and mourning with explorations of our natural environment.

  • Giant Robot.

    Giant Robot
    April 26–July 28, 2014

    This exhibition will feature the work of artists associated with the groundbreaking magazine Giant Robot, an ahead-of-its-time celebration of Asian American pop and alternative culture.

  • Wayne Thiebaud, Delicatessen Counter, 1961. Oil on canvas, 27 x 37 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of Concours d'Antiques, Art Guild.

    Fertile Ground: Defining California Moments from Kahlo to Kilgallen
    September 20, 2014–January 25, 2015

    This major collaboration brings together important works from SFMOMA and OMCA's collections, exploring how California artists have influenced and been influenced by artists, trends, and cultures on national and international levels.

Past Exhibitions

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