About Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA

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The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is a contemporary and modern art museum now housed in a temporary location at the City of Santa Ana‘s South Coast Plaza Village. The museum’s collection totals over 4,500 works, with an emphasis on Californian and Pacific Rim art from the early twentieth century to the present. Classical paintings, photography, and sculptures are on display, as are new media works in the form of digital, video, installation art.

History of Exhibitions

The Orange County Museum of Art has arranged exhibitions of contemporary art, such as the museum’s first surveys of Vija Celmins (1980), Chris Burden (1988), and Tony Cragg (1990), as well as major retrospectives of the work of Lari Pittman (1983), Gunther Forg (1989), Charles Ray (1990), Guillermo Kuitca (1992), Bill Viola (1997), Inigo Manglano-Ovalle (2003), Catherine Opie (2006), Mary Heilmann (2012). Contemporary art exhibitions have varied in theme from Objectives: The New Sculpture (1990), which featured the work of Annette Lemieus, Katharina Fritsch, Grenville Davey, Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Juan Muoz, Julian Opie, and Haim Steinbach, to Girls’ Night Out (2003), which featured the work of Sarah Jones, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dorit Cypis, Shirana Shahbazi, Rineke Dijkstra, Elina Brotherus, Katy Grannan, Daniela Rossell, Kelly Nipper, and Salla Tykka; and State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, featuring an in-depth research of California artists in the 1960s and 1970s.

Additionally, the museum has coordinated and hosted exhibitions of contemporary art and design, including Edvard Munch: Expressionist Paintings, 1900-1940 (1983), The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, 1938-1948 (1986), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), and American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age (2001), Picasso to Pollock: Modern Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2004), Villa America: American Moderns 1900-1950 (2005), Birth of the Cool: Art, Design, and Culture in the Midcentury (2007), and Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce (2009). (Source: Wikipedia)

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Collection

OCMA’s permanent collection, which numbers over 4,500 works of art, is focused on art created in the 20th and 21st centuries by artists with connections to CA. Since its establishment, OCMA has placed its collection at the center of its activities and attempts to showcase and preserve California’s most creative and groundbreaking art. The collection has developed into one of the most notable and significant in the region during the last 60 years. Pre and mid-century modernism, California Light and Space, Minimalism, Bay Area Figuration, Pop Art, assemblage, and installation art are among the museum’s primary holdings. (Source: ocma.art)

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