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COMING UP

UG student Jasmine Robinson Teenage Dream

Reception: November 2, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

October 31 - November 9, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This exhibition will showcase works that explore the trials and tribulations of girlhood, specifically, teenage dreams. Through mixed media paintings and photography, Teenage Dream will take you on a journey through heartbreak, angst, and true love.

Ceres Madoo Lecture: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence

November 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Center Hall, Room 119, UC San Diego

Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon, like her art work, Ceres’ personal identity defies categorization. With a BA from UC San Diego ('89) and an MFA from Rutgers University, her conceptual, fluxus, critical educational roots happily collide with her inherent interests in non-western art, folk and craft methodologies.

Lightning Talks: New MFA Student Presentations

November 3, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Learn about the work of artists new the Visual Arts MFA program: Jamil Baldwin, Rahul Basu, Sophia Cleary, Walker Hewitt, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Aambr Newsome, erika roos, and Andrew Wharton. Refreshments will be available.

Assoc. Professor Pinar Yoldas talk for Resilience In A Changing World

November 8, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The Design Lab , UC San Diego

Design@Large presents "Speculative Biology and Our Biotech Future," in which Dr. Pinar Yoldas will look at the history of biotech and its near future. Also known as the Biotech Revolution, Yoldas will show why advances in biology play a significant role in defining our response to problems such as global warming, mass extinction, pandemics, and endemics.

MFA alum Doris Bittar Colonial Colonnade

Reception: November 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Arab American National Museum, Dearborn MI

Colonial Colonnade partners Arabic and English as a nonlinear and unsequenced format of words without start and end points. Facets of the exhibition include cutout curtains of grouped text, moveable words, steel footholds to swing and hang from, and an encounter with a menagerie of letters and symbols.

Professor Amy Adler Audition

Reception: November 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 22, 2023

Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The works in Audition expand Adler’s universe while simultaneously revealing their roots in her previous lines of inquiry: vulnerability, subject versus authorial agency, and queer desire. On each monumental canvas, Adler drew a different still frame from a single scene she’d cut from one of her short films.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama I Get to Have My Own Private Hope

Reception: November 11, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 16, 2023

Best Practice, San Diego CA

In I Get to Have My Own Private Hope, Fish and Pigeon go on a quest in search of the meaning of “work” prompted by the news of the extinction of bananas, and rent that’s passed due. This new video piece further questions today’s work conditions and societal structure through the precarity of Fish’s life and disappearing bananas.

My Barbarian performance The Mother and Other Plays

November 16, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

This live adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother includes original musical numbers and improvised content, and also maintains the Brechtian concept of the Lehrstück, or learning-play, by inviting audience members to participate in select scenes. A play about the revolutionary potential of motherhood, My Barbarian's  The Mother and Other Plays  offers audiences a theatrical, and critical, performance experience.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin mural on UCSD campus


The Campus Art Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAAC) plays a key role in ensuring that new campus art installations create opportunities for diverse artistic expressions that reflect campus priorities and allow all to feel included in the campus ethos.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim awarded OKSHF Research Grant


Thanks to generous support from the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation (OKSHF), the Korean Heritage Library (KHL) at the University of Southern California (USC) offers research grants to assist scholars with onsite research on Korea. Jae Hwan Lim will research American peace activists' role in reestablishing South Korean society after the Korean War in the 1960s-80s. 

PhD candidate Hande Sever awarded Kulturakademie Tarabya Artist Residency


Kulturakademie Tarabya is an institution of the German Federal Government. It is run by the Goethe-Institut in Turkey. Hande Sever's residency at the academy will be supported with funds made available from the Goethe-Institut in Turkey and Allianz Foundation in Berlin, Germany. 

Work by Professor Pinar Yoldas acquired by Senckenberg Naturmuseum


The artist and scientist Pınar Yoldaş shows a new site-specific installation from her investigation “An Ecosystem of Excess”, which has been growing steadily since 2014. The focus is on the oceans – once the origin of evolution and today heavily infested with plastic.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Se Busca

August 5 - November 12, 2023

Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA

SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. Memory as in generational trauma, indigeneity, Purépecha ancestry, and how these memories from blood and dirt are transported through migration. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.

ONGOING IN TOWN

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers

October 5 - December 8, 2023

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

October 7 - December 9, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Party Saturday October 7th, 2-6pm, featuring a new commission by Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim, performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop at 4pm. Taco catering 2-4pm, open bar 2-6pm.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Bazar

October 21 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

Bazar originated out of Dean’s research in the archives of Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, and her work with a group of women from Permis de Vivre la Ville (License to Live in the City), a community engagement organization working to increase social engagement in the Paris suburbs.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin Tell Me About Yourself

September 23 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.

Profs. Anya Gallaccio & Janelle Iglesias, MFA alum Joe Yorty in SD Art Prize 2023 Exhibition

October 28, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Central Library, San Diego CA

The San Diego Art Prize is predicated on the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city, and was conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection, and social interaction around San Diego’s artistic and cultural life.

MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Arlene Mejorado, Lorena Ochoa in NextGen 2023

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim organized Mundanity of North Korea

October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Geisel Library, UC San Diego

This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin and Profs. Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade in Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian

September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.

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