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MONTEREY, CA (OCTOBER 15, 2025)—As part of a national tour organized by the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo will be on view at Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) from February...

Monterey Museum of Art is honored to be selected as Monterey County Weekly's Best Museum of Monterey County for the fifth consecutive year!

Generations of Big Sur creatives drew inspiration from the singular place. Monterey Museum of Art shows how.

Loyola Marymount University's Laband Art Gallery presents its fall 2025 exhibition "Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection," on view from Sept. 25 to Dec. 6, 2025. This expansive show presents a selection of nearly 50 Chicanx artists who have...

Just a quick, direct flight from Seattle, Monterey feels worlds away in the best possible way. Located along California's Central Coast, this coastal gem is known for its dramatic ocean views, marine wildlife, charming small-town feel, and rich...

MONTEREY, CA (JULY 24, 2025) – Monterey Museum of Art’s Fall 2025 Exhibition Season, Mid-century Big Sur establishes for the first time how Big Sur’s “power of place” proved to be an irresistible and creatively rich experience for post-war artists...

MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA (24 DE JULIO DE 2025) — En el marco del Ciclo de Exposiciones de Otoño 2025 del Monterey Museum of Art, en Big Sur a mediados de siglo se exhibe por primera vez cómo el “poder de un lugar” que posee Big Sur demostró ser una...

MONTEREY, CA (JULY 17, 2025)--Every year, the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce recognizes businesses who have achieved excellence in their fields. This year, Monterey Museum of Art is honored to be recognized as the winner in the Arts,...

I try to live my days mindfully, giving my full attention to each moment, whether it is folding laundry, waiting in line at the pharmacy, or standing at my easel painting a glorious flower. This seems to me to be the best way to honor the privilege...

An invitation to reflect on my creative process and art world is welcome, as that activity is seldom at the top of my to-do list. To paraphrase from my entry for the Monterey Biennial, creating art brings me supreme joy, sharing it with the world...

It was a moment of joy and honor when I heard I would have my photographic artwork included in the inaugural 2025 Monterey Biennial. Seeing my work listed among esteemed local artists was wonderful, an affirmation that my voice and perspective matter...

Dvandvani is an exploration of unseen forces—those subtle, often intangible energies that shape our physical surroundings and emotional landscapes. These elemental tensions mirror my experience while creating the piece, a process or visceral tug and...

My fieldworker paintings are originally inspired by the many great artists of the past, going back as far as Pieter Bruegel in the 16th-century and later the work of Francois Millet and others of the Naturalist movement in 19th-century France....

I create intimate, intertidal landscapes within the threshold between sea and land. This is The Edge of The Sea that Rachel Carson described as "strange and beautiful" and "elusive and indefinable"

When the Monterey Museum of Art brought in two consulting firms in 2021 to 2023 to help guide the museum's leadership in weighing the options for the organization's future, the feedback was near-universal