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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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Reception: February 27, 6:00
February 28 - June 14, 2026
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
In his portraits and studio photographs, Sepuya explores queer desire while questioning the established acts of looking and their underlying power structures. Through intimate encounters and carefully staged compositions that often involve close friends, Sepuya presents marginalised bodies as fragmented subjects and objects in their relation to the gaze.
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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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Reception: February 28, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
February 28 - March 15, 2026
Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA
The Sweepers, a new conceptual art exhibition of the work of acclaimed animation leader and multi-media artist Marge Dean. Each piece is built around the same concept: What would a world where housework is valued — and the women doing it recognized as creative visionaries — look like?
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Reception: March 3, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
March 4 - March 5, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
The paintings in this show by students of VIS 106B explore thoughtful composition, reaching abstraction, and intentional use of supports and materials. Each work showcases deliberate choices, highlighting the variety of approaches, experiments, and creative voices across the class.
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March 6, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice: Professor Gerardo Aldana, UC Santa Barbara. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.
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March 8 - August 23, 2026
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease.
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March 12, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Jacobs Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Since the 1970s, Joey Terrill, a Los Angeles based Chicano artist, has explored the intersection of his Latino and gay male identities in his art. A native Angeleno, he studied at Immaculate Heart Collage and California State University, Los Angeles. Living with HIV for 45 years, his art career has paralleled and documented his four decades as an AIDS activist.
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YouTube
Esteemed poet aja monet offers “hollyweird” - With a haunting afro-punk drum and horn, aja reports on the Los Angeles fires of 2025 with visceral descriptions of fire, loss and the larger metaphor of change. aja monet is a poet, performer, and educator from East NY, Brooklyn, best known as the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poets' Café Grand Slam title.
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Over the past decade, FIELD has remained committed to providing independent critical analysis of activist and engaged and art practices, filling a significant void in contemporary art criticism. This is an absence that has only become more conspicuous in recent years, given the broad rise of neo-authoritarianism both in the U.S. and globally.
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UC San Diego Today
Graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts are grappling with questions of cultural displacement, exploring the boundaries between the natural and artificial world, reframing transgender visual culture in Latin America and more. As a preview of what’s in store at this weekend's Open Studios, we caught up with five students to learn more about what drives their creative work.
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UC San Diego Today
The show is curated by Mashonda Tifrere, an international curator, collector, author and advocate. The project holds special meaning. “I have followed Faith’s work since my adolescence, growing up on the same Harlem streets she did,” said Tifrere. “Her advocacy for women artists and her relentless fight for their rights have always inspired me. This aligns closely with the mission of my platform, ArtLeadHer.”
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January 30 - February 26, 2026
Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
More than a backdrop, "place" is a character that shapes and reflects the identities of its inhabitants. Topographic presents photography by Latinx artists who engage their environments, transform lands into language, and locate memory and history in places that remain alive with possibility. Curated by Aydinaneth Ortiz and Janet Owen Driggs, Topographix is part of Foto SoCal.
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January 20, 2026 - March 28, 2026
Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ
Of the People features a selection of works on paper by contemporary artists from across the United States who responded to the question: what does American Democracy mean to you? Through investigative research, consulting various formal and informal repositories of knowledge, and reflecting inwardly, this group of artists particularly consider the meaning of American democracy in the present moment.
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Delancey Street Press
The book is a study of Ken Russell's film work from his early days at the BBC to his later, sometimes controversial, independent work. Russell's whole body of work was informed by a second Renaissance that took place in England in the 1960's and the book explores that time/place and the context in which the films came into being.
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Oxford Art Journal
Initially recognised for his official monuments commissioned by the Turkish state, Bara’s shift towards abstraction and the subsequent publication of his thoughts and works in the internationally circulated L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui carried significant weight within his local context, where ‘official’ art held sway.
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January 14 - February 28, 2026
Quint ONE, San Diego, CA
Known for a growing cast of anonymous individuals concealed in patterned, form-fitting fabrics, Chapin paints ambiguous scenes of them languorously existing in a manufactured mid-century purgatory. In this ongoing practice informed by both modern advertising and contemporary social media influencer culture, Chapin forges an entanglement between the collapsing dichotomies of the real and the artificial, and the valuable and valueless.
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