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Located across form Pacific Street from historic Colton Hall, Monterey Museum of Art hosts a busy slate of exhibits and events celebrating painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media art, with a particular focus on California artists.

Monterey is not the obvious place to meet Rex Ray for the first time...Yet it's the Monterey Museum of Art, not a bigger San Francisco institution, presenting Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light, the first retrospective ever assembled of his work....

For 36 years, up until his death in 2018, Indigenous photographer Dugan Aguilar interacted with Indigenous communities throughout California, capturing contemporary life of tribes. In 2021, Aguilar's family gifted his personal archive to the Oakland...

Monterey Museum of Art is honored to be selected as Monterey County Weekly's Best Arts Nonprofit of Monterey County!

Aligned with its mission to inspire creativity, connect communities, and celebrate the stories of California art, Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) is delighted to announce the return of the Monterey Biennial, set to take place in summer 2027. Exhibiting...

Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) is hosting another Big Weekend with free family-friendly activities! Throughout the year, MMA invites visitors of all ages to discover more of what makes the Museum a vibrant community destination. With a full lineup of...

A "Roaring '20's Jazz Party" is the theme of the Monterey Museum of Art's latest Art in Bloom fundraiser.

This unique initiative is part of MMA's 2026 Iluminado season of art, community, and light. The collaborative installation develops throughout its run with community-submitted dreams and memories. Rooms of Possibility also features work by young Boys...

An exciting show arrived at the Monterey Museum of Art. Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light is a retrospective exhibit of works by Rex Ray, or Michael Patterson (1956–2015).

This past May, the Monterey Museum of Art selected several works from the exhibition Landscape Re-Imagined, curated by Helaine Glick, for its permanent collection. I am incredibly grateful that two of my collectors stepped forward to donate two of my...

The walls are painted pine green. You are in the forest. Remain in this sacred space – among branches shooting into the sky, the verticality of the crowns and the wisdom of the mother tree – as long as you like, perhaps with the lines from "Some...

The Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) invites the community to Art in Bloom, its signature fall fundraising event of the year, taking place Saturday, September 19, and Sunday, September 20, at the historic La Mirada estate. The weekend benefits MMA La...

Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) will open a major exhibition, Born of the Bear Dance: Dugan Aguilar's Photographs of Native California, on September 10, 2026. Drawing from the personal archive of Native photographer Dugan Aguilar that was gifted to...

The ways we orient ourselves in time, place and direction are many and various. Our more-than-five senses tell us a lot. Our hearts, minds and intuitions give us primary information. We rely on maps — those on paper, on our devices, and the ones we...

Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) presents Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light—a retrospective of critically acclaimed Bay Area artist, Rex Ray (1956–2015), guest curated by Cydney Payton. Ray is renowned for his prolific and multi-faceted creative approach...