Exhibitions

Mayhew’s African American, Shinnecock, and Cherokee-Lumbee ancestries inform his dreamlike landscapes, which are saturated in vibrant colors.

Featuring over thirty works drawn entirely from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Photographs by Judy Dater

Art Rewards the Student

Pomo Artists and Our Cultural Landscape

On view through January 8, 2023

Make Today Better: The Art of Creating Change

This exhibition brings together two giants of California ceramics known for their satire, humor, and irreverance.

Artists Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari present their ongoing public-engagement project within the museum and out in the Sonoma Community.

This exhibition reviews the revolutionary spirit of Chagoya and Maria as an artist-couple, artists-activists, and their decades-long contribution to the Bay Area arts scene.

This retrospective exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and prints from more than seven decades by California artist Ynez Johnston.

A video installation that explores challenging issues within the Black male community

The art of Bruce Beasley, Catherine Daley, Peter Hassen and Jun Kaneko will be installed in Sonoma Plaza May 4 – October 19, 2021

A.R.T.S. Student Exhibition 2021: Exploring Diversity and Creating Connection Through Art

Please join us for an exceptional exhibition of books, prints, and photographs by the world-renowned American artist Ed Ruscha.

The first museum exhibition that celebrates the role that photographers and the images they created play in the history of West Coast rock ‘n’ roll culture. Curated by author and former SF Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin.

Due to public health restrictions related to the COVID-19 virus, we have had to cancel the Art Rewards The Student (A.R.T.S.) gallery exhibition but you can still see student work here online!

A modern mixmaster of pop and realism, Valentin Popov is well known for his portraits which demonstrate not only his craftsmanship but also his insight into the human psyche.

Installation artist Judy O’Shea works with the volume and history of a space to engage the visitor not only with her objects, but also with the venue and other observers.

The Life and Art of Bernice Bing

Inherit the Dust

Featuring 34 historic, as well as contemporary artists who have lived and worked in Sonoma County.

Art Rewards the Student 2019

Explore the cultural exchange between China and the West

A Space for Color

Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S. S. Vallejo

Artist's Books from Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora

Celebrating SVMA's 20th Year

Stories Shared from the Artist Community

A sea of blue and aqua, comprised of a total of 44 strands of pompoms, commemorates the 44 people who lost their lives in the fires of October 2017.

This installation aligns with the one year anniversary of the fires and pays tribute to the resiliency and strength of the Sonoma community.

Botanicals, Archives, and Libraries in the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains

California Women Sculptors in the Landscape

The Bay Area Figuration of Gail Chadell Nanao

Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo

Libros de Aventuras Book Adventures

Artist's Books from Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora

Photographs by Jack London

Work by Contemporary California Women Sculptors

Magna Fide (The Great Belief)

Thresholds

The Work of Joseph DeLappe

The Prints of Karl Kasten

The Sculpture and Early Prints of Nathan Oliveira

The best of world photography.

16 Artists Creatively Combined

Design and the Culture of Board Riding

Contemporary Calligraphy

Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art

Danae Mattes and Frances McCormack

Explore the delicate and evolving relationship between people, technology and the environment.

Kara Women Speak

The Egyptian Children's Tapestries

Diebenkorn is most widely known for his signature large-scale, vivid abstractions known as the Ocean Park paintings

Exploring shape, color, and value play in quilt patterns

From the collection of Benjamin H. Rose, III

American Quilts Below the Radar, 1950–2000

Quiet, Creative Force, A Retrospective Exhibition

Today's Contemporary Realists

William T. Wiley in the 21st Century

A.R.T.S. 2014

Exceptional Artists of Sonoma County

The Architecture of Aidlin Darling Design

The Kathleen Thompson Hill Culinary Collection

Art About Food

The Sprit of Mentoring in Sonoma

Minidoka on My Mind

Tales of Cuban History and Culture, The Sarah & Darius Anderson Collection

Extraordinary selections from North American and Asian artists, include rare 20th century Japanese papers and paper-making implements from a private collection.

Coastal Echoes

A look at the major areas of inspiration in Ferlinghetti’s work, reflected in writings, paintings, and graphic works

A.R.T.S. Explores Color Theory is a student exhibition presented alongside the exhibition Color Theory: The Use of Color in Contemporary Art .

The Use of Color in Contemporary Art

Michael Schwager, Gallery Director and Professor at Sonoma State University and Kate Eilertsen, Executive Director for SVMA, have chosen five artists who live and work in Sonoma County whose work has not been seen in galleries or museums and who have not been given the attention they deserve.

Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion

Working in both urban and agricultural watersheds McCormick responds to environmental issues using a problem solving design process to give aesthetic weight to ecological solutions.