SOMArts Cultural Center

10/16/2026

In Their Name 🕯 Artist Highlights �
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🌟 Jonn Carlo Segovia
🌟 Monique Lopez
🌟 Pin@y Educational Partnership

In Their Name: Dia de Los Mu***os 2026 �
Opening Reception & Exhibition Unveiling
Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM

Get your tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

10/08/2026

In Their Name 🕯 Artist Highlights �
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🌟 Ella SF aka El/La Para TransLatinas (El/La Para TransLatinas)
🌟 David Taffola
🌟 Iris & Lorena

In Their Name: Dia de Los Mu***os 2026 �
Opening Reception & Exhibition Unveiling
Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM

Get your tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

10/06/2026

In Their Name 🕯 Artist Highlights �
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🌟 Ancestral Dreams Collective
🌟 Adrian Arias & Lindsey Crawford
🌟 Crystal de Alba

In Their Name: Dia de Los Mu***os 2026 �
Opening Reception & Exhibition Unveiling
Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM

Get your tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

10/04/2026

"In Their Name: Día de Los Mu***os 2026"
Opening Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM
📍 SOMArts, $15, youth 16 and under free; NOTAFLOF
Get tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

🕯 Performer Announcement 🕯
Meet Las Hijas de la Madre
Las Hijas de la Madre are Amalia Ortiz (lyricist and lead singer), Errezeta (lead guitar, vocals), Lilith Tijerina (bass, vocals), Sarah Tijerina (vocals, keyboard), Dr. Kip Austin Hinton (rhythm guitar and musical direction), and Joaquin Muerte (drums).

They toured Texas, performed at the Latinx Visions Conference at University of New Mexico, and at the XII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana y Estudios Latinos in Barcelona, Spain. Other notable performances include The Black and Brown Punk Fests 2025 and 2019, Luminaria 2019, University of North Texas, Texas Woman's University, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio College, UTRGV Edinburg and Brownsville campuses, and Trinity University.

Las Hijas de la Madre are a q***r Chicanx feminist punk band fronted by Amalia Ortiz, American Book Award winner for Oral Literature. Las Hijas center Tejana voices and explore the correlation of Chicanx rasquachismo and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. They radically re-envision a historically white, male expression through the lens of intersectional feminism.

📸 Photo courtesy of Las Hijas de la Madre.

10/04/2026

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️
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Bhavani Srinivas (B. 1997, Rock Island, IL, United States) (Bhavani Srinivas) works across fiber, metals, sound, video, painting, and print to make objects and installations that shift between the registers of personal narrative, pop culture, religion, and history. Bhavani holds a BA in Art Practice from Princeton University and is currently an MFA candidate in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. They are a worker-owner of March April Studio, a community art and writing studio in Los Angeles, and they co-run Corners cutoff, a small press publishing multi-lingual projects.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the link 🔗 in bio to RSVP!

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Chukwudubem Ukaigwe Studio) is an artist, curator, and writer. Exercising material as an experimental device for cross-examining plural themes, his interdisciplinary practice is an inquiry into semiotic dissonance. Ukaigwe participates in the creation of immersive audiovisual scapes for fecund contemplation, bringing to center facets of everyday life to generate active conceptual trans-media interconnections pertaining to global aesthetics.
On obtaining a BFA (Hons.) from the university of Manitoba in Canada, Chukwudubem has presented exhibitions and effectuated artist residencies intercontinentally.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
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⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

Lian Yung (lian_yung_art) is a San Francisco based painter that paints highly detailed work, usually depicting animals or figures meshed together with machinery and rope. Lian’s work touches on the emotions of uncertainty, but with determination. Juxtaposing these conflicting emotions, she creates works that relate to the viewer and to the current political and social climate. Lian graduated with a B.S in Mathematical and Computational Biology in 2022, and worked at a research lab at Stanford for a year after graduation. She draws inspiration from this background, and Chinese and Puerto Rican heritage.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Receptio

10/01/2026

For nearly three decades, our annual Día de los Mu***os has become more than an exhibition–it’s a practice of remembrance, celebration, and community.

We’re so grateful to everyone who continues to make this beloved tradition possible. We can’t wait to gather with you again this October for "In Their Name: Día de los Mu***os 2026"!

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"In Their Name" opens Friday, October 23, 6–9PM
Curators Bridgètt Rex and Rio Yañez
$15, youth 16 and under free; NOTAFLOF
Get tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

Featuring curatorial remarks, exhibition unveiling, Day of the Dead inspired vendor market, and music performance by Las Hijas de la Madre.

📸 Photo courtesy of Claire S. Burke

10/01/2026

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️
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Khadijah Morley (b. Toronto, Canada) (Khadijah Morley) is an artist and educator whose practice draws on Black feminist thought and her Jamaican heritage. Through printmaking, she blends personal narratives, Afro-Caribbean folklore, and spiritual symbolism to create images where dreams, memory, and magic converge. Her work maps connections across the Black diaspora, centering subjectivity as a counter-narrative. She has participated in residencies across North America and Japan. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and featured on CBC Arts.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the link 🔗 in bio to RSVP!

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

rel robinson (b. 1995, Los Angeles)((ariella)) is an artist working in and around photography, fiber, research, text, and archival methodologies, her practice superimposes the affectual and the abject and aims to develop a language with the ephemeral. She has shown and participated in programming at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; Anthony Maier; Anglim Trimble, Gallery 16, Et al., BAMPFA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Minnesota Street Project. She has studied at San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley, and is the founder of conventional projects, an artist-edition publication.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the link 🔗 in bio to RSVP!

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

Leyla Jamil Rzayeva (Leyla Jamil Rzayeva) is a first generation American artist born to Azerbaijani and Russian parents. Leyla works with installation, photography, sculpture and printmaking with a focus on the Bay Area, Caucasus, and West Asia. She takes inspiration from theatrical production to explore spectatorship and internal gaze. Leyla is a Graduate Teaching Associate at San Francisco State University. Her work has been exhibited at Art/Space 114 in LA, Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, de Young Museum, Skyline College, and 500 Capp Street Spring Invitational.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening R

09/30/2026

Join us for the opening reception and exhibition unveiling of "In Their Name: Día de los Mu***os 2026"! Get your tickets and celebrate with us in community, art, music, and remembrance:
https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

Featuring curated artist market 🌟 music performance by Las Hijas de la Madre

Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM SOMArts, 934 Brannan St.
$15, youth 16 and under free; NOTAFLOF

🕯Exhibiting Artists🕯
Adrian Arias & Lindsey Crawford
Ancestral Dreams Collective
Crystal de Alba
David Tafolla
Ella SF Art Collective
Iris & Lorena
I Witness Silwan, Art Forces, Lana Ramadan
Jonn Carlo Segovia Menchaca
Monique Lopez
Pin@y Educational Partnerships
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
The Friends & Family of Tosha
Vianne De Santiago

🕯Graphic Design by 🕯
Melanie Cervantes

Get your tickets to the opening of "In Their Name: Día de Los Mu***os 2026" on Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM

09/29/2026

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️
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My name is Samantha Maria Xochitl Espinoza ( maria espinoza 🧿⛓❣️⛓🧿), and I am a Chicana youth educator, organizer, housecleaner and artist in Oakland, CA. Through printmaking, textiles and storytelling, I choose to highlight ignored perspectives that have historically been left out of visual art spaces. Specifically, I emphasize how our humanity in life and death tie the collective together in radical liberation. Raised in L.A. and Denver, my work is influenced by the day-to-day lives of immigrants, elders, care workers, abuelitas, primas, janitors, q***r people of color, and the pursuit of an ethical and just world.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the link 🔗 in bio to RSVP!

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

I was born in Vietnam and grew up in St. Paul, MN. My family are immigrants from the war. Due to the imprisonment of my father, who was a soldier of the war, we were given an opportunity to start anew in the United States. We settled in St. Paul, MN, where I learned to love the cold, tennis, and the Minnesota State Fair. I am currently pursuing my MFA at San José State University. I am thrilled to establish roots here in the Bay area and be part of the vibrant art community. The weather is not so bad either!

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the link 🔗 in bio to RSVP!

⭐️Meet the 2026 Awardees⭐️

Kamyar Mohsenin (b. 1998) ( mohsenin) is an Iranian-American interdisciplinary artist, award-winning filmmaker, and educator based between the Bay Area and Seattle. Through newfound connections between the traditional and the contemporary, Kamyar’s current art practice explores themes of identity, faith, migration, memory, mythology, and the natural world. His works have been exhibited in Frye Art Museum, NOWNESS, Museum of Pop Culture, Black Star Film Festival, Henry Art Gallery, Shasha Movies, Roxie Theatre, Great American Music Hall, NWFF, SIFF, Portland Panorama, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

✨2026 Murphy & Cadogan Opening Reception✨
Friday, October 16, 7-9 PM PST 📍SOMArts
➡️ Tap the lin

09/28/2026

Our annual Día de los Mu***os exhibition opening and unveiling features a beautifully curated market where you can shop for one-of-a-kind prints, original artwork, handmade treasures, and more! It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet and support artists, makers, and creators.

Curated by Bridgètt Rex and Rio Yañez, "In Their Name: Día de Los Mu***os 2026" opens Friday, October 23, 6–9 PM 🌟 Get your tickets today: https://events.humanitix.com/intheirnameopening

📸 Photo courtesy of Claire S. Burke