Cynthia Ona Innis Featured at Triton Museum of Art

The work of visual artist Cynthia Ona Innis will be featured at the Triton Museum of Art from Jan. 17 through April 19.

The Triton Museum of Art presents Seams (Jan. 17, 2026 – April 19, 2026) by Cynthia Ona Innis. Cynthia Ona Innis is a Bay Area visual artist who explores connection and division in her work through the process of disassembly and reconstruction in her painting. Innis utilizes seams as both a metaphor and a method: a site where rupture and repair coexist.

Cynthia Ona Innis, based in Berkeley, CA, holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a MFA from Rutgers University. Innis’s work is included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Crocker Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. Cynthia Ona Innis is represented by the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles.

Cynthia Ona Innis’s upcoming exhibition, Seams, is a collection of abstract pieces where pigments and textiles “meet at the seams” and have a conversation. Innis’s approach to abstraction is rooted in a physical, process-driven practice. The dialogue between the pigments and the textiles are uncovered through the way they respond to each other; pigments poured directly onto the fabric, bleach used to remove color, materials cut, stitched, assembled and reassembled. Engaging with the textures and weights of these materials, Innis allows her surfaces to transform organically, reflecting the ongoing evolution of this process. “Across these works, stitching, knitting, layering, and suspension become meditations on connection and fracture – memory and material, permanence and impermanence. The resulting surfaces reflect the layered experiences that shape how we see and move through the natural world,” Innis explains.

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Seams by Cynthia Ona Innis will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art in the Permanent Collection Gallery starting Jan. 17, 2026.

The Triton Museum Art is a nonprofit institution and a vital community resource that provides accessible exhibition and education programs, which promote a broad range of contemporary California art.

Through its multifaceted programs, the museum brings together the culturally diverse population of the Greater Bay Area to foster a better understanding of art and its role in building a strong community. The museum provides free parking and free admission; the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.