Exhibitions
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild sponsors competitive art exhibitions and group exhibitions several times every year. Information about our current exhibition will be found here. Check back to see exhibition and reception announcements! To enter our competitions, please see Call for Entries, or sign up for our mailing list to receive notifications.
SDMAAG is pleased to announce our
2025 International Juried Exhibition
curated by Dr Amy Galpin.
View the Online Exhibition here:
Congratulations to our winners:
First Place: Mollie Ong
Title: Big Dreams & Loss
Bio:
Mollie Ong (b. 1995) is a first generation Chinese American artist. She began studying art at Riverside City College in 2013, and received her BFA in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts in 2020. She works as a freelance animator and illustrator, and has been an Instructor at RCC, CalArts, and Otis College of Art and Design. In addition, she pursues painting and independent animated filmmaking in her studio.
Artist Statement:
My work is derived from the reflections of my surroundings and the mystery of my family's history. Coming from multiple generations of immigrants, my work often portrays themes of loneliness, confusion, loss, and hope. Through allegorical imagery I strive to illuminate internal narratives, seeking to navigate the cultural and generational divides in my experience as a first-generation Chinese Singaporean American.
Description of "Big Dreams & Loss":
In "Big Dreams & Loss", two figures contemplate life next to a glass half empty and full. Both characters express two sides of a coin: one of hope and endless possibilities, and another of the subsequent loss and change that comes with pursuing life. The vacillation of these thoughts are a delicate balance that can tilt and shift with immense delicateness, and potentially be misled, like a poisonous butterfly landing in one's cup.
Second Place: Fiorenza Gorini
Title: Launch Sequence
Fiorenza Gorini is an Italian-born painter whose work is rooted in a deep engagement with the human figure and the stories it carries. Since beginning her professional career in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008, Gorini has developed a practice that moves fluidly between representation and abstraction, allowing intuition to guide her balance of structure and spontaneity.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, and in solo shows at the Pacific Art League and Hadadi Fine Art.
In her series "Swimming Pool Concept", Fiorenza Gorini explores the human body in motion and at rest, set against the distilled geometry of the swimming pool. The works capture both the dynamism of dives and descents, and the stillness of solitude beneath the water’s surface. Evolving from early experiments to more layered and introspective compositions, the series becomes a meditation on balance, vulnerability, and suspension. The pool itself emerges as both a stage for athletic gesture and a metaphor for states of being.
Third Place: Seraphine ...
Title: Peace is the Seed of the Mother
My painting that was accepted was created and accepted into an exhibition at a museum in Mexico City. All art was based on one poem about peace.
Honorable Mention: Gregory Supple
Title: Chinatown Market
Honorable Mention: Sandra Chen Weinstein
Title: Molly
Honorable Mention: Charlene Mosley
Title: The Aura of Becoming
Honorabe Mention: Nicholas Nicola
Title: At Peace
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Phes Gallery Exhibit
of selected works from
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
Phes Gallery Fine Art and Craft
2633 State Street, Carlsbad, CA 92008:
Opening Reception Sunday April 6, 2025 2 - 5 pm
Exhibit April 6, 2025 - May 31, 2025
Gallery Hours Thursday - Saturday 2 - 7 pm and by appointment
Online through May 31
Jurors: Ellen Speert, ATR, REAT and Paul Henry
Highlights from The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION
at MOPA@SDMA
Live at the Museum of Photographic Arts at
The San Diego Museum of Art (MOPA@SDMA), Balboa Park:
November 7, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Online through March 9, 2025
Juror: Hugh M. Davies, Ph.D.
SDMAAG 2024 Membership Exhibition
Live at Gallery 21, Balboa Park,
November 19 through December 2, 2025
Online through December 31, 2024
Juror:
Alex DeCosta
Director, Hyde Art Gallery at Grossmont College;
Co-Founder and President, Front Row Center
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
2024 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
Spring EXHIBITION
An International Juried Online Exhibition
March 25, 2024 – May 25, 2024
JUROR:
Nancy Lim, Associate Curator
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Department of Painting & Sculpture
2023 HOLIDAY ONLINE EXHIBITION
November 1 through December 31, 2023
San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
2023 FALL MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION
November 14, 2023 – November 27, 2023
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Live at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA The reception will take place on Sunday, November 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. PST, at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park. |
2023 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
Spring EXHIBITION
An International Juried Online Exhibition
February 15, 2023–April 15, 2023
San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
2022 Holiday Online exhibition
November 1 through December 31, 2022
San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
2022 FALL MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION
September 13, 2022 – September 26, 2022
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Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA |
2022 Online International Spring Exhibition
by the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
March 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022
JUROR:
G. James Daichendt, Ed.D.
Dean of the Colleges
Vice-Provost for Academic Studies
Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
June 8, 2021 - August 8, 2021
Juror: Anita Feldman
Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Education at
The San Diego Museum of Art
2020 Online International Winter Exhibition
by the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
December 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021
Juror: Ken Goldman
The Guild at the Lyceum
was to be in conjunction with Hershey Felder’s
Paris, A Love Story
The Lyceum Theatre is closed
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ARTISTS GUILD
2020 Membership Exhibition
ONLINE
May 10 - June 30, 2020
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ARTISTS GUILD
AU NATUREL: Nature’s Art
2019 Membership Exhibition
at Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center
an exhibition of Art about Nature & the Park
August 3 through September 13, 2019
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ARTISTS GUILD
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2019 SCULPTURE & WALL ART EXHIBITION OPEN CALL
March 12, 2019 - March 25, 2019
GALLERY 21, SPANISH VILLAGE, BALBOA PARK, SAN DIEGO, CA.
Juror: Richard Becker of San Diego
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ARTISTS GUILD
BEETHOVEN
2019 MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION
February 19 - March 25, 2019
Lyceum Theater - 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA.
THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ARTISTS GUILD
2018 MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION
October 23 – November 5, 2018
GALLERY 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild (SDMAAG)
2018 Open Juried Exhibition
"Connections"
Open to all Artists Worldwide
May 31 – June 30, 2018
Poway Center for the Performing Arts
15498 Espola Rd, Poway, CA 92064
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild (SDMAAG)
2017 Membership Exhibition
October 25 – November 6, 2017
Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
Prospectus: OnlineJuriedShows
Duke Windsor, Juror
2016 ONLINE INTERNATIONAL Juried All Media Exhibition | The Eleventh Hour, Oil and Gold Leaf on Belgian Linen, Rose Adare, KEAAU HI
Tea Time Strawberries, Watercolor, Sherry Roper, San Diego, CA
Morning Song, Watercolor, Sherry Roper, San Diego, CA
Shoreline at Incline Village, Watercolor, Marianne Elam, Poway, CA
Bologna: Old And New, Watercolor, Ralph Kingery, San Diego, CA
Jerusalem Sidewalk, Watercolor, Ralph Kingery, San Diego, CA
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Documents and Pictures
At Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, California
February 1- February 28, 2016
Juried by: SDMAAG
Since the first cave paintings 40,000 years ago, humans have both documented and created reality through image-making. This theme runs through art history, whether we are talking about a 16th century still life or a collage created to express your love for Justin Trudeau.
Now we live in the Instagram era, which blurs the line between reality and pictorial fiction to a degree never before seen. A vacation snapshot is also a shoe advertisement and a carefully edited addition to the personal brand. This exhibition seeks to explore three tendencies: works that reflect reality, works that create fictions, and works that mediate the two.
We are seeking to mount a diverse show exploring every ramification of this theme in a wide variety of 2D media.
Award winners:
Borders
At Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, California
October 30- November 22, 2015
See prospectus
See exhibit online.
100 Artists, 100 Years:
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015
Exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art
April 18 - July 26, 2015
Exhibition at The San Diego Museum of Art Welcome Gallery
Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 2 through August 30, 2015
100 Artists, 100 Years: The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015, a partnership of Oceanside Museum of Art and The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, will open in both of OMA’s first-floor galleries. Major disciplines including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, furniture making, and architecture were represented. This exhibition features (see more...)
Artists Guild Centennial Members' Exhibitions
Oceanside Museum of Art, Herbert B. Galleries, Southfair Del Mar
Exhibition, June 20th-September 20th, 2015
Gallery 21, Balboa Park, San Diego
Exhibition, May 27 - June 8, 2015
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild celebrated their Centennial year with two members' exhibitions. The first was displayed at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village, in San Diego's beautiful Balboa Park. The second exhibition was displayed in the Oceanside Museum of Art's Herbert B. Turner Galleries in Southfair, Del Mar. Each exhibit displayed different work. Note that the online exhibition linked above contains the work from both exhibits. Click on an image to see a larger version.
Illuminations
Exhibition dates: October 31- November 25, 2014.
The Poway Center for the Performing Arts. 15498 Espola Road, Poway, California 92064
“MADE IN SAN DIEGO”
2014 Members Exhibition
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, California
March 28 – April 26, 2014
Juror: Kay Colvin
Artists Guild Members-Only Exhibit:
Reflections - Open Juried Exhibition
Gallery 21, Spanish Village, San Diego, CA
Januaryyyyyyyyy 2-13, 2014
(Online exhibition, January 2-31, 2014)
Contemporary Expressionism - The Creative Spirit
International Art Exhibition 2013
At Lyceum Gallery, San Diego, California, and
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild Online Gallery
September 7- October 13, 2013
Juror: Derrick Cartwright