Past Exhibitions
2025 Exhibitions
Civilization Blues
February 10 - March 21, 2025
Civilization Blues artists: Ebti, Asma Kazmi and Shirin Khalatbari
Ebti, It would be magic but it will never happen. Impossible love. 2004, digital overlay, variable dimensions, courtesy of the artist.
About the Exhibition
What do pyramids in Egypt, votive objects from ancient Mesopotamia, and the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli have in common? They are associated with some of the earliest civilizations in the world. “Civilization”… we are taught that this is the highest mark of achievement for a society. It is associated with progress, modernity and success. But is there another side to the story? Civilization Blues is an art exhibition that includes the work of three Bay Area artists: Ebti, Asma Kazmi and Shirin Khalatbari. Each one traces remnants of early civilizations, arriving at painful realities in the present day.
2024 Exhibitions
Leyla Jamil Rzayeva, Holding Hands, 2024, oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the Artist
Homebound
September 30 - November 15
Join us in the Art Gallery for Homebound, an art exhibition by California artists who reflect on their experience and feelings about "home."
Homebound Artists:
Lara Aburamadan, Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Elizabeth Dorbad, Fadl Fakhouri, Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien, Leyla Rzayeva, Gazelle Samizay, Megan Wilson, Noga Wizansky
About the Exhibition
Homebound is a contemporary art exhibition featuring California artists. The exhibition explores complex relations to “home,” actually or metaphorically defined. At the face of it, “home” is straightforward. It’s where we live and where we come from. Adding “bound” to the term challenges a straightforward read, suggesting both the act of heading home as well as the sometimes challenging relationships we might have with home, family and identity. These relationships can be fraught. Do we feel “at home” when we are home? What is home for diasporic communities? Is there room to expand definitions of home in response to the pressures that emerge from growing up outside home countries? What are indigenous conceptions of home and belonging? Is home necessarily one place, or can we feel at home anywhere?
24th Annual Student Art Exhibition | April 15 - May 10
Skyline College's annual student art exhibition features sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs, ceramics, mixed media and digital media artworks by Skyline College students. View exhibition details.
The opening reception is Monday, April 29 from 12 - 2 p.m.
Growing Up Asian | Feb 26 - March 29
Please come join us at the Skyline College Art Gallery for the viewing of "Growing Up Asian," a photo exhibition that tells a visual story of a Chinese American family's journey from China to San Francisco's Chinatown.
The Hall family's arrival from China in the 1850's resulted in the opening of the first Chinese herbal medicine shop in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1864 and became a hub for the local community. The business was open until it was unlawfully shut down by the FBI in 1957. This tragedy led to a family tradition in photography that spanned generations.
The exhibition features archived photographs and artifacts from the Hall Family Collection, including the family herb shop signage. It also features photographs by Timothy Hall and his experiences growing up in San Francisco from the 1950's to contemporary times. The exhibition explores themes of ancestry, family, discrimination, and all that comes with growing up as Chinese Americans in San Francisco's Chinatown in the mid to late 20th century.
2022 Exhibitions
Skyline College x Society of West-Coast Artists Art Exhibit
2021 Exhibitions
21st Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
Featured Art from Best in Show for Mixed Media: They Mattered, Jasmine Espinoza
2020 Exhibitions
2019 Exhibitions
2017 Exhibitions
February 6 - March 10, 2017
Featuring a great selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, video, prints and mixed media works by Skyline College Art Faculty members.
April 17 – May 12
Featuring a great selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, video, prints and mixed media works by Skyline College students.
Breaching Walls: Real and Imaginary
November 6 - December 1
Reception: Nov 8, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m
An unprecedented exhibition highlighting 1,000 years of Latin American art. “Breaching Walls: Real and Imaginary” (showing Nov 6 – Dec 1) brings together artwork from major private and public collections of “Arte Hispano-Americano.” The artists whose work is exhibited in “Breaching Walls” are primarily 20th century Mexican and Mexican-American painters, printmakers, photographers and sculptors. The exhibition focuses on the artists’ use of symbols that have retained relevance over centuries; symbols which have roots in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
2016 Exhibitions
Enclave | Jeremy Keith Villaluz
October 24 - December 2, 2016
Jeremy Keith Villaluz is a photographer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. As a photographer working in the realms of documentary and landscape, his work explores divergent narratives in the everyday that are often overlooked or left in the margins. With a background in Ethnic Studies, the paradigm his work deals with is largely informed by his time in the community and classroom, particularly as educator dealing with Filipino American community issues.
His current project, Enclave, deals with his hometown of Daly City--a suburban town neighboring San Francisco that is also home to one of the densest populations of Filipinos outside of the Philippines. With the rapid socioeconomic shift the San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing, the Enclave project places Villaluz's experiences in this established immigrant community at center, exploring some of the complexities that come with the the collision of gentrification, suburban imaginaries, and intergenerational cultural reproduction.
To learn more about the artwork of Jeremy Keith Villaluz, please visit his website.
Master Chi Chern | CHAN doing nothing
September 6 - October 7, 2016
Born in 1955 in Taiping, Malaysia, Master Chi Chern was ordained as a Buddhist monk under Venerable Master Zhu Mo and graduated from the Chinese Buddhism Research Institute of Fo Guang Shan (Taiwan). He is the first Dharma heir of Chan Master Sheng Yen in the Linji lineage of Chinese Chan and a fourth generation Dharma descendent of Master Xu Yun. He has authored more than sixty books on Buddhism and meditation, including The Map to Nowthere – Chan Practice Guide to Mind Cultivation.
In addition to teaching in formal retreats, he also teaches through his artwork in Chinese calligraphy, Chan paintings, poetry, Buddhist lyrics, and tea. Currently the Principal of the Malaysian Buddhist Institute, Vice President of the Malaysian Buddhist Association, and Abbot of Puzhao Buddhist Vihara, Master Chi Chern resides in Malaysia and teaches extensively in Chan retreats throughout the world.
