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
Mike McCarley
October 6 – December 31

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
Timeless Architecture: An Artist Tribute to La Jolla
October 1 – October 29
 

Mission Hills
Wildlife Photography by Kseniya Us
September 1 – October 31

Mission Valley
Silviu Nica
August 9 - October 31, 2025

Mission Valley
The Power of One: About One Person with Down Syndrome
October 1 – November 1

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

Point Loma/Hervey
4 Artists 4 ART
October 1 – December 31

Rancho Bernardo Library
Doris Bertch, Jo-Lind Eckstein: Beyond Our Doors
October 2 – December 31, 2025

Serra Mesa Library
Chris Witnik: Posters of the National Parks
September 8 – December 31

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