Vian Sora: Outerworlds

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is pleased to announce Vian Sora: Outerworlds, a multi-venue mid-career survey of internationally renowned abstract painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad). This exhibition will assemble approximately 20 of Sora’s major works, charting her growth as an artist over a period of seven years (2016–2023).

The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, The Impressionist Revolution invites visitors to reconsider these now beloved artists as the scandalous renegades they at one time were, as well as the considerable impact they had on 20th-century art.

On view in conjunction with Encore: 19th-Century French Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

This major exhibition is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and has been curated by Nicole R. Myers, Ph.D., Chief Curator and Research Officer, The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art.

Encore: 19th-Century French Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Including paintings, photographs, sculpture and works on paper, this unprecedented exhibition in its own separate gallery will complement The Impressionist Revolution, demonstrating how Paris became an international 19th-century phenomenon; how an array of artistic, literary and political figures made Paris their scintillating home; and how the construction of the Paris Opera can be seen as a symbol for the many cultural, social, and political forces that Paris faced within a restless, often volatile France, Europe, and world.

On view in conjunction with The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art.