Where would you go, if only for a moment? To a beach where the horizon seems endless? A mountain beneath an unfamiliar sky? A quiet cabin, a distant city, a road through the desert, or perhaps somewhere that exists only in memory? Vacations 2026 opens like a collection of journeys, inviting us to leave the ordinary behind and experience the places, colors, sensations, and memories that make us feel we have gone somewhere else.

Exhibizone proudly presents Vacations 2026, the 3rd annual juried international smart exhibition, opening September 4 and continuing through November 4, 2026. The exhibition can be explored at:

https://www.exhibizone.com/vacations2026

Across the exhibition, vacation takes wonderfully different forms. Sunlit coastlines meet snowy cabins, waterfalls and forests meet deserts and mountains, while boats, tropical palms, village streets, distant architecture, roadside scenes, and figures in transit carry the unmistakable feeling of movement and discovery. Then the journey becomes less literal. Through abstraction, pattern, texture, unexpected color, and imagined landscapes, some works transform travel into something felt rather than seen, as if the memory of a place has remained even after its details have disappeared.

Perhaps this is what we bring home from our journeys. Not a perfect record of where we went, but fragments: the particular blue of the water, sunlight against a building, the silence of a mountain, the strange excitement of arriving somewhere unknown, or the feeling of looking through a window and realizing that, for a little while, ordinary life is somewhere far behind us. Sometimes the places we remember most are not even the grandest ones. They are simply where something made us stop, look, breathe differently, or feel unexpectedly alive.

And not every vacation requires a passport. It can happen beside a familiar lake, beneath a tree, during a quiet afternoon, inside a childhood memory, or entirely within the imagination. Seen together, the artworks of Vacations 2026 suggest that leaving the everyday is as much an emotional experience as a physical one. We travel because places change around us, but perhaps also because something within us changes while we are there.

As you travel through the exhibition, rate the artworks and leave comments on the ones that become part of your own journey. Tell an artist where their work took you, what memory it awakened, or what made you want to stay with the image a little longer. Participating artists can reply to visitor comments, turning the exhibition into an exchange between those who created these visual destinations and those who arrive to experience them. So, where will you go first? Vacations 2026 is ready for departure. Wander through its coastlines and cities, forests and mountains, real places and imagined escapes, and see which artwork becomes the destination you did not know you were looking for.

Participant Artists:

Virginia LaMont Naegeli, Mary Kathleen Quinn Stahl, Michael Lee, Shirley Hathaway, Elyse Elguezabal, Dan Johnson, Sarah Sammis, Basha Maryanska, Tenesha Neal, Deborah St John, Patti Walsh, Nira Chorev, Shelley Skoropinski Supple, VerLan, Ron Santini, Joanna Levesley, Tosya Shore, Nike Kama, Ernesto Urdaneta, Priyadarshini Gandhi, Steven Squires, Elizabeth Finger, Lizi, Lourdes Rivera – LULU, Karen Orton, Elisabeth Krenner, Olha Svieshnikova, Michael Watz, Yolanda Goldsack, MikeE, Jane Gottlieb, Kateryna Lastovetska, Marielle Snyder, Gerald McCarthy, Carmen Nicole Moelders, Suzanne Cross, Carol Schmauder, Bonnie Peacher, Suzanne Dane, Anne McMahon, Peter Schachter, Linda Gulinson, Lisa Sachs, Judith Sachs, Elaine Clayman, Timothy Hutchinson