La Jolla Campus Expansion Project

FAIN: CHA-268854-22

MCASD (San Diego, CA 92101-3306)
Kathryn Kanjo (Project Director: May 2019 to October 2025)

Construction expenses and campaign fundraising costs for the expansion of the museum’s La Jolla campus, creating capacity for display of the permanent collection alongside temporary exhibitions.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) requests a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $750,000 to support a transformational expansion of our flagship La Jolla campus. For the first time in our history, the expansion will allow MCASD to consistently display our collection along with compelling temporary exhibitions. MCASD’s holdings include more than 5,000 objects in all media. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the expansion will nearly double the size of the facility and quadruple current gallery space (from 10,000 sq. feet to 40,000 sq. feet). Over 400 objects will fill the new collection galleries, which will comprise approximately 30,000 SF in the renovated facility. The galleries will provide visitors with opportunities to contextualize well-known masterworks alongside a diversity of other perspectives, emphasizing the voices of women artists, artists of color, and artists working outside the US, particularly Latin America.