The Visual Arts Program provides access and connection to the arts and culture landscape in San Diego, offering unique opportunities to local and regional artists. Featured exhibitions can be viewed at Central Library’s Judith Harris Art Gallery. Rotating exhibitions by local artists and creative groups are hosted at several library locations throughout the year. The Visual Arts Program demonstrates the library’s role as a cultural institution embracing a broad range of disciplines while assisting San Diego artists to achieve wider local, regional and national attention.

For more information about library exhibitions, email us at OnView@sandiego.gov.

Featured Exhibitions

Uncharted Elsewhere is a mixed-media exhibition exploring the surreal complexities of contemporary life! Through sculpture, textile, painting and works on paper, artists reimagine landscape and form as sites of entanglement.

Featuring works by Gabrielle Berens, Kaori Fukuyama, Yena Kim, John Oliver Lewis, Leslie Shershow, Eva Struble, Delilah Strukel, Akiko Surai, and Kelly Witmer. Curated by Bonnie Domingos

Together, this presentation reminds us that the surreal isn’t just about escape—it’s about seeing the familiar in unfamiliar ways and finding meaning in the in-between.

Join us for the opening night:
📍 Judith Harris Art Gallery – San Diego Central Library
📅 Saturday, August 2, 2025
🕖 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 

OnView - Local Arts

Central Library- Popular Library
In the Land of...
June 21 – October 15, 2025

Central Library- 2nd Floor
Monica Miller
August - September 2025

Carmel Valley
Jim Houliston
July 30, 2025-October 1, 2025

La Jolla/Riford
Remember Us The Holocaust (RUTH)
Jan. 12, 2025 – Dec. 14, 2025

La Jolla/Riford
Life in the Ocean Underwater Photography
June 28, 2025-September 25, 2025
 

Mission Valley
Cara Rodriguez
August 2025

Mission Valley
Silviu Nica
August 9 - October 31, 2025

Pacific Beach/Taylor
Colored Pencil Society
June 14 - August 9, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, July 12 at 1-3pm. 

Pacific Beach/Taylor
Paintings by Tony Jeffreys
July 1, 2025 – August 31, 2025

Pacific Beach/Taylor
Reflecting/Revisiting-Photography by Major Morris
August 16 - October 23, 2025

Point Loma/Hervey
Rose Mizrahi   
July 5 - September 27, 2025

Rancho Bernardo
Laura Green: Mountains to Sea
July 1 - September 30, 2025

Rancho Peñasquitos
Shylaja Nanjundiah 
July 17, 2025-August 30, 2025

Rancho Peñasquitos
Maggie Yang
July - September 17, 2025

Explore past exhibitions at the Central Library Art Gallery, including behind-the-scenes content and virtual tours.