Exhibitions

The Center for Creativity showcases art across seven unique gallery spaces, with exhibitions rotating every two months.

Explore our previous exhibitions, learn about our gallery spaces and how to submit an exhibition proposal, or pre-register for an upcoming exhibition reception.

Making Waves: Currents of Change
Mar
5
to Apr 26

Making Waves: Currents of Change

Making Waves: Currents of Change, curated by Belinda Chlouber, celebrates women artists and environmental consciousness during Women's History Month and Earth Day. The exhibition brings together a group of women with diverse artistic perspectives that examine the climate crisis, ecological relationships, and humanity's impact on our planet.

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Amphitrite Awakes
Mar
5
to Apr 26

Amphitrite Awakes

Invoking ocean goddesses, artist Christina Conklin crafts algae vessels, wombs and wings in an act of reclaiming sacred feminine power in this time of turmoil.

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UnPAcked (The Suitcase Project)
Mar
5
to Apr 26

UnPAcked (The Suitcase Project)

Vintage suitcases become intimate portals in this multi-artist installation, each vessel transformed into a personal landscape exploring ecology, displacement, and the stories we carry — a meditation on what we choose to hold, what we leave behind, and our place in a changing world.

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Wildsafe
Mar
5
to Apr 26

Wildsafe

By keeping precious things in safes, we disengage from them. The Wildsafe invites viewers to look inside at clay figures that unite the natural and human world—passing knowledge across generations, building cross-species relationships, persisting through change—revealing the imaginary line we draw between our worlds.

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Dial-A-Poet
Mar
5
to Apr 26

Dial-A-Poet

Dial-a-Poet invites visitors to pick up a vintage push-button phone and dial to hear environmental poems. Visitors can contribute their own voices by writing poems on ribbons that become part of this evolving installation, transforming a communication relic into a portal for ecological reflection.

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Rebirth in Color: Design Tech High School
Apr
30
to May 31

Rebirth in Color: Design Tech High School

“Rebirth in Color” celebrates creative freedom, inviting young artists to explore the spirit of spring through painting without constraints. In this first off-campus exhibition from Design Tech High School, students were given a simple yet expansive prompt: "Create what you feel called to create."

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A Measure of Uncertainty
Apr
30
to Jun 28

A Measure of Uncertainty

This exhibition by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective explores life amid “A Measure of Uncertainty.” The fine art photography exhibition, featuring the original work of 13 BAPC artists, is curated by Heather Snider.

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Transformations
Apr
30
to Jun 28

Transformations

To mark the one-year anniversary of our opening at the historic Sequoia Hotel, the Center for Creativity proudly presents Transformations—an exhibition featuring ten San Mateo artists who celebrate the spirit of our dedicated volunteers, curated by Alyssa Levitan.

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Through the Tangles
Apr
30
to Jun 28

Through the Tangles

Through the Tangles, by artist Robin Mullery, is an interactive installation of wire, words, and space embodying the way we are bound, held, entangled, connected, and released in relationships with others and ourselves. Viewers can participate by submitting words from the exhibit to a website, which will generate a new poem.

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Soft Punk
Apr
30
to Jun 28

Soft Punk

Soft Punk by artist Michelle Anna Boire, is a mixed media show exploring trauma and grief in the Phone Booth Gallery.

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A Safe Barrow
Apr
30
to Jun 28

A Safe Barrow

The Barrows serve to examine what collects and to illuminate the mental and emotional weights that accumulate. In many ways taking what is private in detail but collective in nature and presenting that in a shared manner encouraging a greater conversation.

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Free Art
Jan
9
to Mar 1

Free Art

The Center for Creativity invites the public to participate in Free Art, a community-driven exhibition where visitors are welcome to take art, donate art, or simply enjoy the exhibition.

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Mural Madness
Jan
9
to Mar 1

Mural Madness

Mural Madness features painted panels created during a live mural competition held during San Mateo’s annual September Arts & Culture Fest.

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Only One Earth
Jan
9
to Mar 1

Only One Earth

We have just one planet, yet it is faced with many perils of human activity -- industrial and home waste, discarded electronics, packaging, plastics, destruction from war, and the consequences of our disposable culture. These perils, embodied in the globes in this installation, drive artist Shirley Abraham toward activism and a passion for environmental stewardship.

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Storytime
Nov
1
to Jan 4

Storytime

Children’s books and original art by artist/illustrators Elizabeth Gomez and Pettina Velez featured on the Community Wall

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Art of the Community: Redwood City
Sep
5
to Nov 1
Exhibition

Art of the Community: Redwood City

Art of the Community: Redwood City 2025 features the creative works of 38 Redwood City artists who submitted their artwork to an open juried call specifically for this exhibition. The exhibition was jurored by Elizabeth Gómez, Justin Hunt, and Yunan Ma, all also of Redwood City.

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