The Lancaster Museum of Art and History’s (MOAH) Summer 2026 exhibition season offers a rich and rewarding experience for lovers of art and film, and anyone visiting The BLVD Cultural District in downtown Lancaster. The season highlights artists navigating identity, heritage, and history through work that is visually striking and imaginative.
In the museum’s main gallery is Velvet Notes: Conversando con Pedro Guzmán (Conversing with Pedro Guzmán), a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based filmmaker and multimedia artist Eugene Rodriguez. Velvet Notes bursts with color, texture, and storytelling through a kaleidoscopic mix of Pop-Art-inspired films, sculpture, prints, and paintings that explore belonging, cultural memory, and the politics of creating through a deeply personal lens. Drawing from his lived experience, Rodriguez’s influences stretch from the saturated hues of Saturday morning cartoons to the brooding shadows of Baroque painting, weaving together imagery that investigates the power of media to shape how we see each other and ourselves. The exhibition debuts his latest film The Great Masquerade (2026), a genre-bending work that interrogates art, commerce, and politics in creative industries, questioning what it means to be an artist in an individualistic society.
The season’s other exhibitions will also captivate. Marcus Zúñiga’s cosmovisión features light-bending sculptural installations that use mica, acrylic, resin, and Mesoamerican forms to reflect and catch light and draw us into questions about our place in the cosmos. Eva Aguila’s The Foundation of the Harvest brings attention to the varied textures of migrant life as family photographs, intimate sculptural installations, archival material, and video testimonies trace a multigenerational story of labor, resilience, and generational wealth. Edwin Vasquez’s The Starborn Fragments reimagines the contents of the lost Mayan codices through ceramic masks painted in deep blacks and cosmic blues, and an installation that evokes ancient astronomers and the star-mapped skies they once charted. Rounding out the season, Emanations: Light, Growth, and Renewal showcases luminous works from MOAH’s permanent collection.
MOAH’s summer exhibitions are on view from May 16 – August 30, 2026, with Emanations on view through April 25, 2027. An opening celebration for the exhibition season will be held at MOAH on Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 12 to 4pm.
MOAH – Lancaster Museum of Art and History – 665 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA 93534
