To launch a yearlong 20th anniversary celebration, SMoCA premieres Now Playing: Video 1999-2019, an exhibition featuring video art sampled from the last 20 years.
Works by 11 international artists temporarily transforms the Museum, a former movie theater, into a space dedicated to the moving image. The iconic survey marks the importance of video in contemporary art, and the social and political concerns that artists have addressed over the last two decades. Through various techniques, from animation and time-based performance, to largescale and immersive installations, the artists explore the complexity and beauty of contemporary art and life.
Artists included in the exhibition: Mark Bradford, Candice Breitz, Petra Cortright, Song Dong, Kota Ezawa, Mads Lynnerup, Christian Marclay, Shirin Neshat, Aaron Rothman, Mika Rottenberg, and Diana Thater.
Mar 21, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
Featuring drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture from SMoCA’s collection, Mark + Making explores the use of marks, gestures, and line to build form and shape ideas in contemporary artistic practic...
Jul 9, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026
Open Spaces features fiber-based artwork that address the significance of the landscape. Natural elements, such as plants, animals, and stone, are foundational, and open spaces like national parks rem...
Sep 19, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
What the Earth Keeps is a site-specific installation, performance, and cyanotype-mapping project by the collective Desert ArtLAB that explores relationships between land, ecology, and cultural memory....
Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 5, 2027
Desert Perspectives is a yearlong exhibition that explores the deserts of the Southwest through more than a century of artistic responses from the museum’s collection, alongside loans and new commissi...
