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A woman views the "Shadow Archive" exhibition at UCR ARTS

UCR ARTS unveils its three spring exhibitions

On Saturday, March 22, UCR ARTS held a reception heralding the California Museum of Photography's three exhibitions for spring

By J.D. Mathes | March 26, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Digital Capture exhibition

UCR Arts' 'Digital Capture' spans space race to AI

Over five years in the making, the “ Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World” exhibition at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, is part of the Getty Foundation’s massive art event, PST Art (previously known as Pacific Standard Time). PST is a five-month long event...

By J.D. Mathes | September 24, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Telling Them Apart exhibition

'Telling Them Apart': Two artists' dialogue in photos

This weekend at the California Museum of Photography, the namesake artists will hold a discussion and screening for their current exhibition, “Telling Them Apart: Eileen Cowin and Jonesy.” The 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27 event is moderated by art and design historian Andy Campbell and, in addition to Cowin and...

By J.D. Mathes | April 24, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Christina Fernandez book

Book based on UCR Arts exhibition wins four awards

Christina Fernandez’s monograph “ Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” produced in conjunction with her 2022-2023 exhibition of the same name at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, has been awarded the Association for Latin American Art, or ALAA, ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award. The book, co-produced by UCR’s Joanna...

By J.D. Mathes | March 27, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Zoe Crosher

Exhibition explores line between real and fiction, in LA style

The first exhibition in the New Acquisitions Series is the artist Zoe Crosher’s seven photographs that make up "LA Like: “Transgressing the Pacific (2008–10).” Alyse Yeargan, collections manager for the UCR Arts’ California Museum of Photography, or CMP, says she chose Crosher’s photographs for several reasons. The works are “emotionally...

By J.D. Mathes | February 5, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Kathryn Poindexter-Akers looks at the wall layout at the California Museum of Photography on March 7, 2023. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

California Museum of Photography turns 50

The California Museum of Photography has been documenting history, art, and community for 50 years. Its collection of cameras, photographs, and art will be on display at “ CMP at 50,” a five-month celebration that kicks off Saturday, March 18, 2023. The anniversary reception is set for April 15, 6...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 13, 2023 | Arts / Culture
KD Ganaway, Untitled self-portrait, 1929. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, William Harmon boxes 

KD Ganaway exhibition coming to the California Museum of Photography

UCR’s California Museum of Photography will showcase the work of King Daniel (KD) Ganaway, one of the earliest Black photographers in the U.S. The exhibition runs Feb. 25 - Aug. 6.

By UCR News | February 21, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Joanna Szupinska, senior curator of exhibitions at UCR Arts, stands in front of the Christina Fernandez exhibition at the California Museum of Photography on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

UCR ARTS: Christina Fernandez’s photo exhibition captures life

This is Fernandez’s first major solo museum show. The images reflect on various social issues and explores her Mexican American identity.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | September 30, 2022 | Arts / Culture
UCR Arts receives American Alliance of Museums accreditation

UCR Arts receives American Alliance of Museums accreditation

AAM is the fields’ gold standard for museum excellence.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 7, 2022 | University
Christina Fernandez, "Starline Fashion," 2000, from the series Manuela S-T-I-T-C-H-E-D. Photo courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles.

UCR ARTS awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant

The grant will support “Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” an exhibition opening in fall 2022.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | January 11, 2022 | Arts / Culture
UCR ARTS building exterior

UCR ARTS reopens May 13 — now with free admission

Explore six exhibitions at the California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts with new measures ensuring guest safety

By Jessica Weber | May 3, 2021 | Arts / Culture
black and white image of gray cloudy sky

‘Art in the Plague Year’ exhibition seeks art imagining a world beyond 2020

The open call marks the first time the California Museum of Photography has solicited art from the public at this scale

By Jessica Weber | November 24, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Bruce Davidson, Birmingham, Alabama , 1963. from the series Time of Change , 1961 - 65 . © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.

In the eye of the beholder

A new exhibition at the California Museum of Photography explores the iconic work of documentary photographer Bruce Davidson and the evolution of meaning in photographs

By Jessica Weber | October 19, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Virtual UCR ARTS logo

UCR ARTS goes virtual

Experience 360-degree exhibition tours, artist interviews, hands-on activities, and more from the comfort of home

By Jessica Weber | May 22, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Christian Houge, "Puma" from the series "Residence of Impermanence," 2019. (Courtesy of the artist)

Out of the ashes and into the fire

‘Facing Fire’ explores the beauty, threat, and devastation of California’s growing wildfires

By Jessica Weber | February 19, 2020 | Arts / Culture

She sees dead people

History doctoral student Alyse Yeargan studies photographs of the deceased to understand how and why we grieve

By Tess Eyrich | December 6, 2019 | Arts / Culture, Students
Fisherman against skyline of Leningrad, USSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia

Comprehensive digital photography collection and $500k endowment donated to UCR ARTS

The gift from Jim and Georgia Steinhart marks the art center’s inaugural born-digital collection and first-ever endowment

By Jessica Weber | December 4, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Reverse Refraction, 1974. Inkjet print.

Power play: Manipulation and absurdity in photography

California Museum of Photography exhibition explores how artist Robert Cumming exposed the truth and trickery of photography

By Jessica Weber | October 2, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Arkansas Maytagers, Maytag Spring Party in Newton, Iowa, March 28-29, 1955. Courtesy of John Divola.

Dual exhibitions from photographer John Divola examine social identity and the sublime

“STRATUM” and “Clive Wearing’s Dilemma” are on view at the California Museum of Photography May 11-Sept. 8

By Jessica Weber | May 17, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Doug McCulloh

Leaving it all to chance

Douglas McCulloh is not a man ruled by fate, but rather, chance. In fact, McCulloh, who joined UCR ARTS as the new senior curator for the California Museum of Photography, or CMP, in July has made chance his primary modus operandi. He traces his preoccupation with chance back to his...

By Jessica Weber | March 15, 2019 | Arts / Culture
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