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Current Exhibitions
Ordinary Extraordinary
November 22, 2024 – May 25, 2025
Deux Femmes
September 12, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean | Liz Larner
September 6, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Chris Burden: A Tale of Two Cities
September 6, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Martin Creed: Work No. 3868 Half the air in a given space
July 3, 2024 – February 16, 2025
Lawrence Weiner: FROM THE SEA TO THE HARBOR FROM THE HARBOR TO THE SEA FROM THE SEA TO ANOTHER SHORE
March 14, 2024 – March 16, 2025
A Moment in Time
November 14, 2023 – February 16, 2025
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression
July 3, 2024 – October 27, 2024
A Moon for the Daydreamers
May 8, 2024 – September 1, 2024
Color is the First Revelation of the World
March 15, 2024 – August 18, 2024
Joan Brown
January 26, 2024 – June 2, 2024
Start, Start Again
November 15, 2023 – April 28, 2024
Jennifer Guidi: And so it is.
September 15, 2023 – February 18, 2024
13 Women: Variation V
July 25, 2023 – August 27, 2023
Tony Lewis: CASUAL T
June 23, 2023 – June 2, 2024
Alice Neel: Feels Like Home
June 23, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Yu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost
June 23, 2023 – October 29, 2023
13 Women: Variation IV
May 23, 2023 – July 23, 2023
13 Women: Variation III
April 25, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Daniel Arsham: Wherever You Go, There You Are
February 14, 2023 – June 4, 2023
13 Women: Variation II
February 14, 2023 – April 23, 2023
California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold
October 8, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)
October 8, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Sanford Biggers: Of many waters…
October 8, 2022 – August 18, 2023
Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape
October 8, 2022 – January 22, 2023
13 Women: Variation I
October 8, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Sarah Cain: Infinite Money
April 15, 2021 – April 15, 2022
Notions of Home: Selections from the Permanent Collection
February 1, 2021 – February 21, 2022
Marsia Alexander-Clarke: Ojos Profundos
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza: Navigating Technics
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Carolyn Castaño: Cali es Cali
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2022
Alexandra Grant: Telepathy is One Step Further than Empathy
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Kyungmi Shin: Father Crosses the Ocean
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Noé Martínez: The Homeland of the Images
September 24, 2020 – February 21, 2021
An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the OCMA Permanent Collection
September 21, 2019 – January 3, 2021
Carolina Caycedo: Wanaawna, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Daniel Duford: Underworld Stories Told in Tree Time
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Spectrums of Reference
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Mulyana: A Man, A Monster and The Sea
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Robert Zhao Renhui: Effect
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Yang Yongliang: Eternal Landscape
September 21, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Diego Berruecos: Only A Shadow
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2019
York Chang: To Be Wrong with Infinite Precision
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Victoria Fu and Matt Rich: Monster A.
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Fritzia Irízar: CaCO₃
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2022
UuDam Tran Nguyen: TIME BOOMERANG California Edition—From S.E.A. Sea Atolls to the Next Dead Stars
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Hiromi Takizawa: Open Air
April 7, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the OCMA Permanent Collection
April 7, 2019 – December 15, 2019
Kathryn Garcia: gone, gone way beyond
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Alan Nakagawa: Rescue(s)
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Valentina Jager: the face the mouth the back
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Ni Youyu: Dust Paintings
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz: Everyday Grappling Operations
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Rodrigo Valenzuela: American-Type
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Forsaken Utopias: Photographs from the OCMA Permanent Collection
October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Pivotal: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
October 7, 2017 – June 17, 2018
Shi Zhiying
October 7, 2017 – February 25, 2018
2017 California-Pacific Triennial: Building as Ever
May 6, 2017 – September 3, 2017
The Avant-Garde Collection
September 7, 2014 – January 4, 2015
California Landscape into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art
December 15, 2013 – March 9, 2014
2013 California-Pacific Triennial
June 30, 2013 – September 22, 2013
Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain
February 17, 2013 – May 5, 2013
OC Collects
October 7, 2012 – December 12, 2012
Jack Goldstein x 10,000
June 24, 2012 – September 9, 2012
Pairings: The Collection at 50
February 29, 2012 – December 30, 2012
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
February 26, 2012 – May 27, 2012
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970
October 9, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Two Schools of Cool
October 9, 2011 – January 22, 2012
2010 California Biennial
October 24, 2010 – March 13, 2011
New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisition, 2000–2010
May 2, 2010 – September 19, 2010
Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce
May 3, 2009 – September 9, 2009
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times
February 3, 2009 – May 25, 2009
2008 California Biennial
October 26, 2008 – March 15, 2009
Peter Saul
June 22, 2008 – September 21, 2008
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
October 7, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments
July 15, 2007 – September 4, 2008
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone
May 20, 2007 – August 26, 2007
2006 California Biennial
October 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Catherine Opie: In and Around Home
June 4, 2006 – September 3, 2006
Fabrice Gygi: The Aesthetics of Control
October 30, 2005 – March 12, 2006
Installation Series: Jason Dodge
June 4, 2005 – September 25, 2005
Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950
June 4, 2005 – October 2, 2005
Collection Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern
February 6, 2005 – September 24, 2006
Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California
January 17, 2005 – April 25, 2005
2004 California Biennial
October 12, 2004 – January 9, 2005
Girls’ Night Out
September 14, 2003 – January 28, 2004
