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Monterey Museum of Art proudly recognizes Dr. Adriana Hayward as the first recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. In recognition of her exceptional dedication, visionary leadership, and profound impact on the Museum, Dr. Hayward’s...

This summer, Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) presents The Art of Place—an exhibition season rooted in the light, land, and creative legacy of the Monterey Peninsula. Across four exhibitions, this season traces more than one hundred years of artistry...

Este verano, el Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) presenta The Art of Place, un ciclo de exposiciones enraizado en la luz, la tierra y el legado creativo de la península de Monterrey. A través de cuatro exposiciones, este ciclo abarca más de cien años de...

It's not too late to visit the Monterey Museum of Art and see a nationally touring exhibit devoted to three trailblazing Japanese American artists and California residents, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. Hisako...

California College of the Arts (CCA) Campus Gallery presents Under the Guard Tower: The Watercolors of Chikaji Kawakami, on view from April 1 through May 15, 2026. Originally presented by Monterey Museum of Art from August 22 to December 15, 2024,...

In the Monterey Bay Area, home of the renowned West Coast Photography movement, landscape photography is a beloved tradition and source of local pride. But how do photographers respond today, when much of the natural world is at risk?

Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, the exhibition currently view at the Monterey Museum of Art through April 19, is timely in the extreme, not simply because exposure of the three featured Japanese American women...

As part of a national tour organized by the Japanese American National Museum, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo is on view at Monterey Museum of Art from February 5–April 19, 2026. The exhibition introduces the public...

When 120,000 Japanese Americans and immigrants were released from imprisonment by the U.S. government in 1945, a group of Monterey County residents – among them Edward Weston, John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers – signed a document called the...

Three out of four exhibits of the Winter 2026 season at the Monterey Museum of Art are already on display. One of them is Landscape ReEnvisioned, a show prepared by independent curator Helaine Glick. The exhibit focuses on landscape photography...

A framed petition in the current "Artistic Alliance in Monterey, 1942–1946" exhibition at Monterey Museum of art not only carries historic significance, but it is also an important piece from Cal State Monterey Bay's collections.

Monterey Museum of Art rounds out its Winter 2026 Season with two exhibitions that highlight California artists who are collectively expanding the techniques and imagery used in creating contemporary landscape photography and ceramics.

Visiting the space where Hanif Wondir and Domini Anne are building their exhibit in advance of Monterey Museum of Art's annual interactive Iluminado experience is fascinating, part art studio and part construction scene.

Human / Nature: California Zen in Big Sur and the Bay Area is a breathtaking show now on view at the Monterey Museum of Art that illuminates the influence of Zen on artists of this transformative time. Though most of its works are more than half a...

"Sky High Hay" (1960) is a mesmerizing black and white painting by Gordon Onslow Ford (1912-2003) that evokes an inner universe composed of spirals, dots, grids and dashes. The man who painted it was an aesthetic hybridizer first shaped by European...