October 28 - October 30, 2025

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Blake Riesenfeld is a photographer and artist-filmmaker whose practice reconciles with his family’s history of the Holocaust in Germany. Riesenfeld is inspired by his great-grandparents' narrowly escaping Würzburg, Germany, in 1938, after being held at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

October 30, 6:30 - 8:20 p.m.

Franklin Antonio Hall #1301, UC San Diego

iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist from Los Angeles who works across paintings, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art. She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self.

Reception: November 1, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

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.

Reception: November 4, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

November 1 - November 7, 2025

Visual Arts Center Gallery, University of San Diego

Trace / Fold / Shift presents new video and diagrammatic works by UC San Diego students from VIS 108: Advanced Projects in Art, instructed by Joshua Tonies. The exhibition explores how artists map, translate, and materialize their processes across forms and contexts. Hosted at the University of San Diego, the show encourages dialogue between the UCSD and USD art communities.

November 6, 7:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Aarhus University, Online Event Registration

The event celebrates the 20th anniversary and video release of the Runme / Dorkbot City Camp in Aarhus, a gathering of artists, experimenters, and thinkers discussing then-nascent software and internet art and culture. Amy Alexander was a co-founder and long time moderator of Runme.org and was a co-organizer of the original Runme / Dorkbot City Camp.

November 7, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

First Year MFA Students: Evan Apodaca, Shloka Dhar, Charles Glaubitz González, Ruby Gomez, Josh Graupera, J. Angelo Pezzini, Mavyn Vu. First Year PhD Art Practice Students: Leila Abdelrazaq, Naima Lowe.

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

November 8, 2025 - February 1, 2026

La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA

Double Bill: The Art of Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson will explore the creative partnership of the celebrated husband-and-wife painters, highlighting how life in Leucadia and their work at UC San Diego shaped their distinct artistic voices. The exhibition presents paintings, sketches, photographs, and archival materials that offer insight into their individual practices and shared creative world.

November 7, 4:10 p.m.

Tokyo International Deaf Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan

Twelve schools in Southern California had their tubas stolen between 2011 and 2013. When reporters told the story, they focused on the thieves and asked the same questions: Who is doing this? Why? What is happening to the tubas? They did not seem concerned about what a marching band would sound like without its lowest sound.

Reception: November 8, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

November 8 - December 30, 2025

LA Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA

Excerpts & Fragments presents twenty years of Los Angeles-based artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s zines, artist books, and collages. Informed by queer modernist literature and early internet culture, Sepuya utilizes fragmentation and multiple perspectives to construct intimate photographs that are explicitly subjective, connecting a community of friends and lovers. 

November 8, 2025 - January 3, 2026

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

In addition to Farber’s well-known tabletop compositions, An Up Beat Title highlights a set of late drawings that revisited a style seen in his earlier drawings from the mid-70s. Farber’s late style, while in markmaking returns to a younger version of himself, in gesture appear quick and loose, perhaps even unfinished. These intimate paper works, inspired by Patricia’s gardens, stand as a tender closing chapter to his practice.

Reception: November 10, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 10 - November 14, 2025

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This art exhibition brings together artists from all backgrounds, each sharing their unique stories through a mix of mediums and styles, from painting and sculpture to digital art, photography, and more. It’s a place where different voices meet, where art sparks conversation, and where everyone is welcome to take a seat and enjoy the beauty of diverse expression.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

October 4 - November 1, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

The paintings in TILT-A-WHIRL were made on unstretched California King bedsheets, representing a shift from a primarily pattern language to the pictorial, wherein singular images and color fields work in unison to define the composition. Several gouache studies, also on view, reveal how the artist tested these arrangements before scaling up their proportions.

October 18 - November 8, 2025

R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

This exhibition brings together paintings, ceramics, and a lithograph — works made through observation, memory, and intuition. Each medium speaks its own language, but they share a common interest in shape, rhythm, and mark-making. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the work explores the tension between chaos and control.

September 6 - November 8, 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.