Mapping Time: a Juried Group Exhibition

January 9, 2026 – February 7, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 3 – 5 pm

Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm

Mapping Time shows artists who approach time as a living material, something that accumulates, decays, heals, and transforms. In this exhibition, time is marked through the body, through ritual, through the slow processes of making, and through the traces we leave behind. The 41 works chosen from over 600 entries, map the rhythms of aging, grief, regeneration, and ecological change, revealing how memory, matter, and attention connect. Across diverse mediums, time becomes tangible, layered through repetition, captured in the traces left behind, and illuminated in cycles of loss and renewal.

Many of the artists in Mapping Time explore the body as an archive, mapping lived experience through physical traces, marks of illness, healing, vulnerability, and endurance. Mapping Time invites viewers to slow down, to witness how acts of marking, remembering, and remaking give shape to our memories in time, reminding us that our stories unfold within larger cycles of transformation.

Our juror this year was Minoosh Zomorodinia, an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents time and movement across landscapes to challenge colonial histories, redefine borders, and highlight ecological interconnectedness. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and residencies, including the YBCA 100, Lucas Artists Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, Alternative Exposure Award, and California Arts Council grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum (Finland), and Nevada Museum of Art. It has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, KQED, and SFWeekly. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.

The artist awarded the solo exhibition in the Back Room Gallery will be announced at the Opening Reception.

Participating Artists:

Adrienne Defendi
Alieh Rezaei
Andy Nguyen
Caleb Wheeler
Camille Schneider
Charlie Levin
Daniel Southard
David Ruth
Drew Klausner
Elaine Nguyen
Jean Cacicedo Leach
Joanna Ruckman
Judit Navratil
Katherine Akey
Kathy deRosas
Katya McCulloch
Kim Smith
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira
Leyla Rzayeva
Linda MacDonald
Luka Vergoz
M. Seishin Cádiz
Margaret E. Murray
Mark Brest van Kempen
Marsha Balian
Max Del Bosque
Mela Marsh
Michelle Lin
Michelle Mansour
Namrata Bhatter
Perry Meigs
Quinn Keck
Rainey Straus
Ruth Tabancay
Sarah Klein
Scott Idleman
Shelley Gardner
Sonja Lee
Syslee Rawlinson
Victoria Heilweil
Yvonne Cavanagh