The Triton Museum of Art presents The Theater of Premature Truths (Jan. 24, 2026 – April 26, 2026) by Emanuela Harris Sintamarian. Emanuela Harris Sintamarian is an Oakland-based artist from Romania whose work is informed by the relationship between her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile those incongruous elements. She explores the fluidity and tension generated by contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated imagery, and imperfections – organized chaos and logical absurdity.

Emanuela Harris Sintamarian’s upcoming exhibition, The Theater of Premature Truths, consists of a series of works that explores her personal identity and lived experiences within context. As a Romanian immigrant in the United States, Emanuela Harris Sintamarian’s work is shaped by the negotiation between belonging and estrangement. Concepts of dualism, fragmentation, and migration show up in Sintamarian’s pieces, reflecting on the complexity of identity and memories. “I construct polyphonic images – fractured allegories of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey. Loss, displacement, and containment become catalysts for ritualized acts of self-expropriation, transforming absence into generative force,” Sintamarian describes.

Emanuela Harris Sintamarian received her first MFA in printmaking from University of Delaware, and her second MFA in painting from San Jose State University. Currently, Sintamarian is an Associate Professor at San Jose City College. Emanuela’s work has been shown in solo and group shows at Sunny Art Center, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania; Museum of Art, Arad, Romania; Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA; Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE; Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia; Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Contemporary Art, CA and Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY.

Sintamarian was the recipient of the Leigh Weimer Award, (2021), the Artist Award SVCreates, San Jose, CA (2020), the Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2018), the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2013), ArtShift Award (2008) and the Silicon Valley Arts Council Award (2010). She is the finalist for the Sunny Art Award (2021), and has been nominated for SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award, SF, CA

The Theater of Premature Truths by Emanuela Harris Sintamarian will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art in the John and Eve Mathias Gallery.

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.

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