Past Exhibitions

An annual exhibition of artworks by SLO County juniors and seniors

AWAKEN was a year-long program celebrating art and community expressed through the imaginative creations of our county’s students.

An exciting combination of photography, mosaics, digital paintings, and mathematically-generated art at SLOMA’s Pop-Up Gallery

Wine Becomes Art, an exhibition featuring original works and art etchings on wine bottles features original artworks by…

The Central Coast Craftmakers challenged its members to create fine craft around the theme of a wellspring…

SLOMA will be presenting Crissa Hewitt and Elsie Deitz: Artists and Their Influences from April 5 to April 28, 2019.

SLOMA is proud to present Man of Two Worlds, an exhibition by Porfirio Gutiérrez, master weaver…

A Change of Scenery provides a unique opportunity to experience Bruce Everett’s artistic journey by bringing together important paintings from his earlier career to the present day.

Insights is a juried exhibition presented by The Painters Group. Over 70 paintings were submitted; 20 were ultimately selected for exhibition.

It only took seeing three of Michael F. Rohde’s tapestries at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s 2013 exhibition of Tapestry Weavers West, to know that if SLOMA could possibly give him a solo exhibition someday, that our Museum visitors could have the special privilege of seeing this world class weaver’s subliminal texture and his masterful interaction of light and color for themselves.

POP-IN to learn why SLOMA needs a new home and enjoy an ART SHOW by contemporary California artists. Sales benefit the artists and the building fund to construct a 26,000 sq ft, 3-story architectural gem on SLOMA’s current location on Mission Plaza. Free admission.

The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art presents Emails From Paris, an exhibition of encaustic paintings and sculptures by artist S. Kay Burnett…

Ariane Leiter, Maria Teresa Rode, and Catherine Schmid-Maybach are ceramic artists who all live in the central California region, residing in communities of Atascadero, Ojai and San Francisco respectively…

Light From A Dark Room contains black-and-white silver gelatin photographs made using film as well as digital color photography.

Banners: Prints & Patterns is a collaborative exhibition featuring contemporary prints made by members of the Central Coast Printmakers Group. A series of repeating prints and motifs will grow into six-foot-long banners produced using an eight-by-eight inch linocut process.

Visit the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s Pop Up Gallery at 959 Higuera Street (at Morro Street) in downtown San Luis Obispo. Phantom Project 16 features original artwork in all media by artists of SLO County

The photographs in this collection span the period from 1986 to 2011. Most were made in 2007 or later, and with respect to that majority, all were made against the same background…

Artwork by ten artists who either taught at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or were connected in other ways, are being featured in An Esalen Perspective, one facet of The Coastal Awakening, an arts and cultural movement centered within and around San Luis Obispo County, sponsored by the Shanbrom Family Foundation.

Visit the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s Pop Up Gallery at 959 Higuera Street (at Morro Street) in downtown San Luis Obispo. Phantom Project 15 features original artwork in all media by artists of SLO County. Jurors were Robin Corell, Abigail Gumbiner, and Sarah Halpern.

Celebrating the prowess of the younger artists in our community, this annual Kids’ Eye View showcases selected artwork created by 5-year-olds to teenagers who have attended this summer’s six week-long “brains-on” art camps taught by inspiring teaching artists.

The leaders of the Central Coast Printmakers selected Artist Juan R. Fuentes, a long time social activist, art teacher, poster maker, and printmaker as their juror for Pressing Matters 2018—the artist group’s biennial exhibition at SLOMA. Their nationwide call for artists this Spring attracted 56 artists who submitted 144 images for possible selection. Juror Juan Fuentes culled the entries to 64 images that will be installed by Curator Ruta Saliklis in the Museum’s Gray Wing.

Noah Erenberg is a self-taught artist, poet, experimenter, colorist, lover of the eccentric and eclectic, and an individual on the autism spectrum. His art reflects his imagination-— creating characters like the Sheep on Stage shown in the banner above, left.

Museums have long been at the forefront of breaking down barriers. One important effort has been the facilitating and enhancing the relationship between disabled artists and their community. The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) is doing exactly that effort with their exhibition Home Sweet Home, an exhibition on view October 19 through December 9, 2018—engaging disabled artists, giving their artwork a bigger stage, and reaching a wider audience.

For David Limrite, A Roomful Of Ghosts is all about the art process.

As an artist-in-residence in SLOMA’s McMeen Gallery from October 5 to December 2, 2018, Limrite intends to pull back the curtain on the mystery of creativity; to reveal the creative process and make it accessible. As Limrite works on his art in the gallery, viewers will see and experience creativity happen and witness the emergence of the visions of one artist.