Posted: November 21, 2025Written by: Timothy Stark
2026 Cuesta College Student Annual Art Exhibition
The Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery is pleased to present the 2026 Cuesta College Student
Annual Art Exhibition, a juried showcase celebrating the breadth and vitality of student
artistic practice across disciplines. This year's exhibition features carefully selected
works in ceramics, drawing, graphic design and digital art, painting, photography,
printmaking, and sculpture, chosen by artists Christina McPhee and Katie Herzog.
Exhibition Dates
Call Dates: March 2, 2026 - April 3, 2026
April 16 – May 22, 2026
Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo Campus
About the Exhibition
The Cuesta College Student Annual is one of the most anticipated events in the Art
Department’s calendar. Each year, this exhibition offers students a chance to gain
experience presenting their work in a professional gallery environment while engaging
with the campus and broader community.
The exhibition is juried by invited arts professionals who review submissions across
multiple disciplines and select exceptional works for inclusion and awards.
About the Jurors
Christina McPhee is a painter, video artist, and media artist whose transdisciplinary practice is
rooted in drawing as a form of embodied knowledge. Working across painting, animation,
and multichannel video, her work traces the tensions between spirituality and place,
handwriting and mark-making, indeterminacy and the finite. Collage and literary transcription
give rise to what she calls "seismic memory" — a visual feedback loop between geological
processes and human experience. McPhee received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute
and her MFA in painting from Boston University School of Visual Arts, where she studied
under Philip Guston. Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of
American Art, the International Center of Photography, the Detroit Institute of Arts,
and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Solo museum exhibitions include
the KinoSaito Art Center, the American University Museum / Katzen Art Center in Washington,
D.C., and Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden. She has participated in major international
exhibitions including Documenta 12, the Bucharest Biennial, and shows at the Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Berkeley Art Museum. Her work has been supported
by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ucross Foundation Fellowship, and has
been written about in publications including BOMB, Artspace Magazine, the San Francisco
Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. Christina McPhee lives and works on unceded
Northern Chumash lands on the Central Coast of California.
Katie Herzog is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on Reverie Ranch in Parkfield,
California. Her practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and new
media, often organized around conceptual projects that examine the intersection of
embodiment, language, and power. Herzog received her BFA from the Rhode Island School
of Design in 2001 and her MFA from UC San Diego in 2005, and attended the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Her work is held in the collections of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University
of Connecticut, and the Tom of Finland Foundation, among others. She has exhibited
widely, with solo and group exhibitions at venues including Klowden Mann and Night
Gallery in Los Angeles, the Monterey Museum of Art, and the Palo Alto Research Center.
Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum,
and Hyperallergic, and she received an Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council
for Monterey County.
Eligibility & Submission Rules
- Any student enrolled in the 2025–2026 academic year at Cuesta College is eligible
to submit artwork.
- Students may submit up to three artworks for consideration.
- All artworks must have been created during the 2025–2026 academic year.
- Eligible media include: Ceramics, Drawing, Graphic Design/Digital Art, Painting, Photography,
Printmaking, and Sculpture.