Art Exhibitions, Fairs & Festivals in Orange County

LANGSON IMCA PRESENTS NEW EXHIBITION
Common Ground: Early 20th-Century Artist Communities in Southern California
February 8𑁒May 17, 2025
UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA)
Irvine, CA 92612

An Independent Brush is a celebration of the work of Donna Norine Schuster (1883-1953), a California artist who has never had a solo museum exhibition despite her talent, training and affiliations.
March 15 - September 7, 2025
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, CA

The artists featured in this exhibition of more than 40 paintings —spanning from the 1930s to today—offer a compelling visual chronicle of life along the coast of California.
March 22 – August 9, 2025
Hilbert Museum of California Art
Orange, CA

Vintage. Modern. Graphic. Textural. Complex. Ordered. Colorful. Earthy. Architectural. Organic.
Katherine Mead, the gallery's newest resident artist, harnesses and arranges the ephemera and curiosities she collects and covets, elevating the mundane and challenging the expected with a diverse and direct visual vocabulary. Her voice is authentic, with a clarity and vision that is singular and resolute. Sandstone Gallery takes pride in sharing her work with others, opening their eyes to new ways of perceiving everyday materials and deepening their emotional connections to the relics and keepsakes of their personal histories.

April 3-June 2
Sandstone Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

This annual juried exhibit showcases artwork from all over the state of California.
April 26 - June 29, 2025
Brea Art Gallery
Brea, CA

JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present SOUTHERN CHARM, an exhibition of recent work by Rebecca Jack, Anna Kincaide, and Greg Miller. Each based in the South, the artists’ respective practices exude charm, capturing the essence of their regional influences.
May 1 – June 30, 2025
JoAnne Artman Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

Lynn Welker is an abstract artist who blends nature and design to create innovated landscape paintings. Through a dynamic arrangement of shapes, textures, and colors, Lynn reimagines natural scenery with a fresh, modern perspective. Each composition reflects a balance between abstraction and familiarity, evoking emotion and curiosity. Blending the familiar with the unexpected, she leads the viewer on a seductive path of discovery.
When looking at Lynn’s work, you quickly notice an emphasis on geometric shapes. Equally important are the organic areas within the same painting. Combining hard edge geometric form with the softness of natural surroundings is essential to establish contrast and surprise within each work.
Lynn Welker’s goal is to temporarily shift attention from a world of technology to one that reconnects people to the richness of the land.

May 1-June 2
Sandstone Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

This educational monthly art event, held on the first Thursday of every month from 6 – 9pm, celebrates the diverse cultural art scene of Laguna Beach and is free to the public.
Ongoing
First Thursday of every month
6 – 9 pm

Laguna Beach, CA

The Village Art Faire is held on the FIRST SUNDAY of every month at 9AM and is put on by the Downtown Business Association.
Ongoing
First Sunday of every month
9 am

San Clemente, CA

Artwalk is like a free carnival happening across downtown Santa Ana from 6pm-10pm on the First Saturday of each month.
Ongoing
First Saturday of every month
6 pm - 10 pm

Santa Ana, CA

First Thursday of Each Month
6-9 pm.
Artist Eye Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

California Bounty is the first curatorial interpretation of the museum’s distinguished painting collection since 1994.
Ongoing
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA