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San Francisco Chronicle: 5 Bay Area museum and gallery shows to see this summer — including several free shows (May 24, 2026)

Artforum: Sahar Khoury (May 1, 2026)
In “Weights and Measures,” the eight works spread throughout four galleries all give the impression of being stripped down to their essential components while also managing to convey an almost baroque sensibility, freely combining found and made elements.

UC Davis In Focus: Students Help Digitize the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection (March 23, 2026)
Backstory: Digitizing the Museum Collection, now on view at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, sounds like a contradiction. How can anything digital be an art exhibition?

East Bay Express: ‘Weights and Measures’ maps war, memory and uneasy silence (March 18, 2026): Oakland artist Sahar Khoury turns ruins into political allegory.

Further Triennial Announces Activations, Initiatives, and Partner Exhibitions For "Around Here", A Region-Wide Celebration of Art Across Northern California

San Francisco Chronicle: How Maria Manetti Shrem became one of the Bay Area’s most influential arts philanthropists (Jan. 23, 2026)
Maria Manetti Shrem enters a room like a character in a Federico Fellini film: with a burst of camera flashes and a multilingual commotion.

Hyperallergic: What to See During San Francisco Art Week (Jan 16, 2026)
In the spirit of experimentation and optimism, several cultural offerings around the Bay pivot away from the commercial center of SFMOMA’s FOG Design+Art Fair at Fort Mason during the third edition of San Francisco Art Week, which takes place January 17–25.

KQED: Your Guide to the Bay Area’s Biggest Art Month (Jan. 6, 2026)
After a star turn in the Asian Art Museum’s Rave Into the Future show (up through Jan. 26), Oakland artist Sahar Khoury is starting the year off strong with a solo museum exhibition.

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Hyperallergic: Julio César Morales Looks at Life on the Edge-Lands (Nov. 23, 2025)
In his exploration of the US/Mexico border, the artist asks: In today’s social climate, who has the privilege of having a future and who does not?

Square Cylinder: 'OJO' and 'My America' (Oct. 23, 2026)
These related exhibitions reveal that the great impact of Morales’ work stems from its insistence that communication solely through language is incomplete. With his restless deployment of media in a by-any-means-necessary approach to artmaking, Morales mobilizes the creative process with stories of the immigrant experience, splintering the fixed borders of language.

Comstock's Magazine: Art Exposed: Julio César Morales (Nov. 6, 2026)
The delicate watercolors lining the wall feel so peaceful and tender that the subtle horror they suggest is almost invisible. Almost.

Art is Awesome podcast: Julio César Morales – Multidisciplinary Artist (Octobwe 2025)

48 Hills: Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration (Oct. 7, 2026)
It’s hard to pin down the multidisciplinary work of artist Julio César Morales. If you ask, he will tell you he is a musician using visual art as his instrument. Across mediums, there is one constant: sharing the immigrant experience.

Letters & Science magazine: Breathe In, Breathe Out: Reflections on Environmental Catastrophe (Oct. 1, 2026)

Nob Hill Gazette: The California Homecoming of Julio César Morales (Sept. 25, 2025)
Artist Julio César Morales grew up in Tijuana, moving with his family when he was 10 to San Ysidro, which was only a block away. Today, in his large, light-filled Western Addition studio, a dub music mix is playing, and you can see how growing up on the border influenced his art.

Hyperallergic: 10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area Fall 2025

Sept. 16: Returning to his full-time art practice after several years as a curator and museum director in Arizona, Julio César Morales debuts two concurrent exhibitions in the Bay Area: OJO and My America.

San Francisco Chronicle: Big names, bigger fun: These must-see shows are coming to the Bay Area (August 2025)

Davis Dirt: 'OJO' demands attention (Sept. 11, 2025)

Davis Dirt: 'Taking the Deep Dive' Explores Control, Chaos and Motherhood (March 12, 2025)

California Aggie: Manetti Shrem rings in the winter season with new exhibits (Feb. 17, 2025)

Juxtapoz: Ruby Neri: A Cycle Around the Sun (January 2025)

Observer: For Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Art Offers New Ways to See the World (Jan. 17. 2025)

KQED: Art to See at the Start of 2025 (Jan. 6, 2025)

Sacramento News & Review: Fresh perspectives in art for the new year in Sacramento (Jan. 3, 2025)

San Francisco Chronicle: Best of 2024: The art world’s biggest moments (Dec. 18, 2025)