September 19, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

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Visual Arts PhD Director, Malik Gaines, will give an overview of the PhD program and will be available to answer questions. The Visual Arts PhD Program grants two PhD degrees: Art History, Theory and Criticism and Art History, Theory and Criticism with a Concentration in Art Practice. The program embodies the department's commitment to innovative research by embracing the close intersection of art, media, and design practice with history, theory, and criticism.

September 19, 2025 – December 14, 2025

The Nest, UC San Diego Library 

Here, Now 여기, 지금 highlights publications on the Korean War from historical and artistic perspectives, as well as unique materials related to the Korean War and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The exhibition features special collections from the University of Southern California (USC)’s Korean Heritage Library, the University of Michigan (U-M)’s Asia Library, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. 

September 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Amant, Brooklyn, NY

Building on his influential 1988 essay FACE(T)S: Notes on Faciality, art historian and theorist John C. Welchman traces the shifting significance of the face across epochs, regimes, artistic movements, and philosophical frameworks. Arguing that the face is not merely a symbol or sign but also territory and a projective fiction—a surface or imagination saturated with religious, political, and aesthetic meaning—Welchman offers a longform reading of faciality as a site of ideological and representational conflict.

September 19, 2025 - August 31, 2026

Taipei Fine Arts Museum Net.Open

The digital age’s promises of unlimited access, transparency, and horizontality have been rapidly evaporating before our eyes. Layer by layer, the supposedly harmless digital technologies have revealed their true nature. One that has never been immaterial, weightless, infallible, accurate, sustainable, or immaculate, despite the efforts to convince us otherwise.

September 20 - September 21, 2025

Good Shepherd Studios, London, UK

The Slow Film Festival gives a platform to filmmakers whose work engages with time and duration on screen. The festival is a space to view and discuss films that are pushing the boundaries of “slow film” as well as those that have defined its history. It aims to be a meeting point where the uses of duration in film can be debated and where new friendships and potential collaborations can take root.

September 20 - October 25, 2025

Locally Grown TV, Online Broadcast

LGtv will be broadcasting work by Salim Green, as part of Green's "Taileater" exhibition at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles. LGtv is a grassroots and pirate digital broadcasting network by and for the people. Wired magazine has called it "PBS for the Streaming Age."

September 25, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Epstein Family Amphitheater, UC San Diego

Stop by the Epstein Family Amphitheater to learn all about arts on campus. Talk to representatives from campus arts departments, academic departments, and student organizations and learn how you can be involved in the arts at UC San Diego.

Reception: September 25, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

September 25 – December 5, 2025

University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA

In Reencuentros: allá nos vemos/See you there, seven contemporary lens-based artists encounter time, home, (dis)placement, movement, stasis and becoming against the backdrop of the permeable US-Mexico border.

September 27, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Other Places art fair, San Pedro, CA

Fluid in definition, bonded by an intention to operate in other places outside the traditional art gallery systems, OPaf features participants presenting site-specific booths encapsulating their projects and programming. OPaf provides an alternative art fair structure designed specifically for these unconventional projects.

Receptions: September 27-28, October 4-5; 11am - 6pm

September 15 - October 5, 2025

UCI Nature Burns Piñion Ridge Reserve, Yucca Valley, CA

Mostly Thorns is an exhibition loosely assembled under the ‘The Rose, Bud, Thorn’ framework—an exercise reflecting on three aspects of an experience: a Rose (a highlight, success, or positive moment), a Bud (a potential for growth, or something to look forward to), and a Thorn (a challenge, disappointment, or area needing improvement).

Reception: October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 1 - December 6, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Omni Intelligent is a group exhibition that explores the intertwined and interdependent relationships between non-human and human entities as artificial intelligence becomes an integrated part of contemporary life. Spanning a wide range of mediums the exhibition offers the visitor a full sensory experience that speaks to the profound shifts unfolding during this pivotal moment. 

September 6 - October 25, 2025

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Luisotti is delighted to announce Arlene Mejorado’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is a culmination of years of cultural, geographical, and familial investigations by Mejorado of the place she has called home since her birth and the various archives left behind by her relatives.

August 28 - December 1, 2025

Arts & Humanities Bldg. 1st floor, UC San Diego

Inspired by Eduardo Galleano’s poetry, this year's PATH Art Exhibit is inspired by his poem The World that describes: “The world is that—he revealed—A cluster of people, a sea of little fires. Each person shines with their own light among all others. No two fires are alike.” A Sea of Little Fires is the theme for this year’s exhibit. Join us for an exhibit that celebrates the different ways in which people shine in this world and bring light to the world.

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

August 16 - September 27, 2025

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The group exhibition extends the ongoing dialogue of Painting as Is—a conversation grounded in the belief that painting remains a vital, self-reflexive medium for negotiating material, image, and subjectivity. This fourth installment unfolds across five conceptual threads: inscription, object-hood, recollection, event, and projection.

April 17 - September 28, 2025

Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

The exhibition focuses on the staging of memories and examines remembrance in its various forms – private and public. Contemporary artists open up diverse perspectives on the past and present through their own reflections on the subject.

June 27 - September 28, 2025

The Polygon, North Vancouver, Canada

Star Witnesses assembles works by a constellation of artists whose insightful observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth. The artists involved deftly combine found and newly produced images showing planets, moons, constellations in distant galaxies, and the Sun to address earthly concerns.