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Reception: January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Xelestial Moreno-Luz presents her Second Year MFA show at the University of Califoria, San Diego. The show's primary medium is photography. The instillation depicts trans/travesti resistance in photographs, as well an excerpt of a short film on two-spirit youth in Abya Yala.
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Reception: January 10, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
January 10 - February 14, 2026
Oolong Gallery, San Diego, CA
The ADORNO group exhibition revisits the enduring question of artistic autonomy in an era saturated by images, circulation, and online spectacle. Drawing its title from the critical legacy of Theodor Adorno, the exhibition stages a contemporary inquiry into art that resists easy consumption—works that operate according to their own internal logics, slow down immediacy, demand presence and emphasize experimentation.
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January 10, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
During the residency, Bazmandegan has been developing a new body of work rooted in a childhood memory of a painting of a black horse that once hung in his family home in Iran. Through sculpture and digital media, he explores fantasy as a method for navigating exile and imagining return. The works on view during the open studio represent an active phase of inquiry rather than a finished presentation.
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Reception: January 10, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
December 6, 2025 - April 12, 2026
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Worldbuilding has long served as a tool for understanding identity, community, and our place within the universe, from creation stories and cosmologies to medieval illuminated manuscripts, speculative fiction, and early experimental cinema. Designing the Infinite extends this lineage further into the digital age, bringing together artists from across the globe who use technology to construct new worlds.
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January 10, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
MXCL BNL LAB, Whittier, CA
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada’s current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view through January 10 at MXCL BNL LAB.
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Reception: January 15, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
January 15 - February 14, 2026
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Participating artists: Jamil Baldwin, Rahul Basu, Sophia Cleary, Walker Hewitt, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Aambr Newsome, erika roos, and Andrew Wharton. The group exhibition To Hold is To Be Held features Visual Arts MFA students in their final year, serving as a preview to their thesis projects. Curatorial Advisor: Selene Preciado, Curator and Director of Programs, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
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Reception: January 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Main + Performance, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Along with collaborators Jeniffer Lopez and Edwin Alvarez Loza, James M Dailey presents a Second Year MFA show at the University of Califoria, San Diego.
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American Pancake
Trigilio is not a creative who stays still but manifests his work in different pools of art that overlap at times, spill into one another. He also is an artist whose work seems to me, to be a mixture of bloodletting and catharsis. And art as a form of emotional purging always raises the bar in terms of art as communal connective tissue.
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Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Ph.D. candidate Jae Hwan Lim published a critical article titled "Making Art Through Dialogic Relationships," which reviews recent projects by Park Hyesoo. Park's group exhibition titled Where the Small Begins, features her installation on the resettlement of North Korean defectors. Lim's article examines Park's socially engaged art through the lens of Professor Grant H. Kester's concept of dialogic and conversational art.
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December 18, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
For those who crawl inside with urges that defy their logical, structural custodians, who look around and see only somatic frenzy in the hall of infinitely reflective hypocrisy. Is there something redemptive burgeoning in the brink of collapse? We must invent poetry for the new world because it will not simply come to us. The false progression of the world is a cataract in beauty’s eye.
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Bomb Magazine
Amanda Cachia is a singular art historian who is rapidly mapping the geography of contemporary art about disability today. Cachia is an accomplished curator, educator, and activist; each of these roles is an essential facet of how she acts as an advocate for and within the disabled community. Her second book, Hospital Aesthetics, positions medical institutions as spaces that play a major role in the material choices of contemporary artists, in contrast with constellations of alternative medicine and networks of care.
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November 21, 2025 - January 9, 2026
La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
These works offer a multifaceted exploration of American Modernism’s relationship to Mexican culture that challenges dominant narratives of North American art. His work merges his academic background in art history with his upbringing in the postmodern drift of Tijuana’s urban landscape and later youth in the cultural sterility of suburban San Diego.
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November 1, 2025 - January 10, 2026
MexiCali Biennial LAB, Whittier, CA
The show examines notions of a person’s paranormal / residential / alien status, the origins of a native person from a specific territory, and how we engage with our personal narratives to bridge realities and dimensions. These ideas unfold through a range of artistic media, including installations, video, drawings, and sculpture.
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August 23, 2025 - January 11, 2026
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The exhibition brings together architects, artists, and educators to study the state and stakes of public education. Through spatial propositions, installations, alternative playgrounds, and curricular proposals, the participants consider architectural, pedagogical, and representational structures that shape how knowledge is created, shared, taught, or withheld.
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September 21, 2025 - January 11, 2026
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Uniting around civil rights and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, many visual artists, poets, playwrights, musicians, photographers, and filmmakers expressed hope and dignity through their art. These creative efforts became known as the Black Arts Movement. Photography was central to the movement, attracting all kinds of artists—from street photographers and photojournalists to painters and graphic designers.
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August 2, 2025 - January 18, 2026
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The exhibition presents singular works of art created from multiple photographs. Set in the experimental time of the mid-1960s to 1980s, the exhibition features artists who deconstructed, reconstructed, and multiplied photographs, playfully pushing photography’s physical boundaries and conceptual limits.
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