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Open Viewing: February 13, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
February 9 - February 13
by appointment: kolds@ucsd.edu
SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
A Second Year MFA photo exhibition and installation at the University of California San Diego.
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Reception: February 13, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
February 9 - February 13, 2026
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
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Reception: February 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
February 12 – March 13, 2026
Da Vinci Gallery, LA City College, Los Angeles, CA
Instructions for Another World gathers a collective of emerging artists whose practices operate as materials from adjacent realities, worlds built through metal, memory, and ritual. The exhibition treats instruction not as command, but as speculative fragments, gestures, and tools for navigating futures and worlds which are not yet legible.
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Reception: February 17, 6:00 p.m.
February 16 - February 20, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
A collection of who I am is who I once was.
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Reception: February 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
February 20 - March 28, 2026
Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
In her upcoming solo exhibition, Outside Your Cloud, Sabrina Piersol utilizes a cold, blue-and-yellow palette inspired by the long Colorado autumn to describe ephemeral, natural forms. Outside Your Cloud is on view from February 20 to March 28 at Jack Barrett Gallery in New York City.
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February 22, 2:00 p.m.
Joshua Tree Retreat Center, Joshua Tree, CA
Sited in the desert landscape, the work offers a small room with over 500 windows and stool to consider the notion of belief. Artifa presents a "champagne christening" for artist Louis Hock. With music by Lee Scott, hors d'oeuvres by Artifa, followed by an after party at Arttrap.
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Reception: February 24, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
February 24 - February 26, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
Roots and Borders explores Mexican-American cultural identity through themes of ancestry, immigration, and resilience. The exhibition reflects both historical and current experiences of the community, highlighting the connection between cultural roots and lived realities.
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February 28, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Facility & SME Gallery, UC San Diego
This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 25 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.
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Reception: February 28, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
February 28 - May 1, 2026
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Curated by Mashonda Tifrere, the exhibition is framed conceptually through Ringgold’s relationship to UC San Diego, where she served as professor of visual arts from 1984 to 2002. This institutional affiliation provides a lens for understanding how her academic philosophy materialized throughout her practice and impacted not only those she mentored at UC San Diego, but generations of artists around the world.
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art launches The Thinking Ocean a digital art project by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter commissioned for artport, the Museum’s online gallery space for Internet art. Part of the artists’ Cosmosapience series, this project simulates a natural body of water that shifts between fluid dynamics and computational code. With The Thinking Ocean, Akten and Hofstadter explore the ways society grants agency to machines that mimic humanlike behavioral patterns, while overlooking the complex computations that similarly unfold in nature.
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February 7 - September 6, 2026
The Cheech, Riverside, CA
Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026 is the first major survey to examine the depth and evolution of Chicana/o/x lens-based image-making over the past 60 years. Featuring some 150 works by nearly 50 U.S. Chicana/o/x artists, the exhibition moves thematically and intergenerationally, spanning early activist photographers with contemporary artists whose work builds upon this powerful legacy.
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ArtReview
To help make sense of what the exhibition materials call ‘a changing world shaped by unfettered mediation, environmental degradation and economic precarity’, they’ve designed a suit of cat-themed tarot cards. Like all of My Barbarian’s pastiches, their take on tarot – using stylised prints, a campy performance video and a minimalist costume stand – exaggerates the tendencies of a preexisting cultural form.
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January 15 - February 13, 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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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 11 - February 14, 2026
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Titled after a 1949 drawing by Toyen and framed by his monograph Royal Book Lodge (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023), Welchman draws on Raoul Vaneigem’s tart critique of Surrealism set out in Histoire désinvolte du surrealism (A Cavalier History of Surrealism,1977) to discuss how Bourgoin, Susin and their RBL friends and colleagues worked through an epistemological and aesthetic inquiry that developed a salient dispute with the historical deployment of alchemical metaphoricity.
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December 13, 2025 - February 15, 2026
The WOO, San Diego, CA
HyperSonic Panoramic Dreamz navigates the blurred space between memory, familial histories, fantasies, politics, and the body. Hyper-Sonic evokes a high frequency sensory blast, a collapse of time, emotion in the symbolic landscapes where multiple realities coexist at once. The title reflects our current moment holding space for potentiality and imagining different modes of survival.
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October 22, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world.
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November 1, 2025 - February 21, 2026
Luckman Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
The title of the exhibition borrows a description of Arlene Mejorado’s practice as “an act of care, via a tender excavation of objects, anecdotes, and memories simultaneously.” A Tender Excavation centers identities that have been systematically excluded from mainstream narratives and representations of not only American art but of representing an “American” identity.
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