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OnView: Art and Culture Exhibitions

The Library’s exhibition program allows free access to visual art and cultural exhibitions, while promoting San Diego artists and creative community groups. For more information about library exhibitions, email us at OnView@sandiego.gov.

 

Featured Exhibitions

San Diego Art Prize | September 17, 2022 - Jaunary 7, 2023 | More information

San Diego Art Prize

OnView - Local Arts

Close-up of art using newspaper and drawing to make a collage-like image by Don Strandberg.

Allied Gardens/Benjamin
Industrial Fragments
Don Strandberg
November 21, 2022-December 30, 2022

Charcoal drawing of two Native women by artist Summer Paa'ila-Herrera Jones.

Central Library
2nd Floor
Summer Paa’ila-Herrera Jones
November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023

Three images from the RE collection

La Jolla/Riford Library
RE...
True Ryndes, Robert Treat, and Pat Kelly
October 19, 2022 – January 5, 2023

Painting with an abstract swirling motif by artist Leslie Jenness. Acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Pacific Beach/Taylor Library
Diversity in the Ocean
Leslie Jenness
November 15, 2022 - January 28, 2023

Painting of an elephant by artist Yoli McLeland. Oil on canvas.

Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library
Yoli McLeland
November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023

Close up of folded paper origami art pieces, one a geometric sphere, and the other a prancing horse by artist Joseph Hwang.

Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library
Natural and Geometric: Origami Works
Joseph Hwang
November 12, 2022 - January 31, 2023

New Beginnings Painting

Mission Valley Library
New Beginnings
Associated Fine Arts
October 6 — December 31, 2022

Multicolored collage

North Park Library
ArtReach at Jefferson Elementary: A Celebration of our Young Artists
September 2 – December 2, 2022

Four portraits of unhoused people by photographer Jordan Verdin.

North University Community Library
Humanity Showers
Jordan Verdin
November 14, 2022 - January 28, 2023

Artist depiction of swan and flowers using colored pencil.

Rancho Bernardo
Library 
Bird’s Eye View of Plein Air Painting 
Sharon Ford & Sue Ann Daffara 
October 1 – December 31, 2022

Previously OnView Exhibitons
 
  • Echoes of AfricaEchoes of Africa | June 4, 2022 - August 20, 2022
  • Clara BreedCall to Serve: Clara E. Breed and the Japanese American Incarceration | September 18, 2021 - January 30, 2022
  • Occupy Third SpaceOccupy Thirdspace II: Plástica y palabra en TJ/SD | Ocupa Tercer Espacio II: Plástica y palabra en TJ/SD | February 19, 2022 - May 7, 2022
  • Julius ShulmanJulius Shulman: Modern San Diego | September 28 – January 19, 2020
  • Fear No ArtFear No Art: Civic Engagement, Histories, Currencies | February 15 – May 17, 2020

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

All exhibitions at Central are a collaboration between the San Diego Public Library and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.