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May 21, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
CALIT2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Peeling Cycle (2026) is a live audiovisual performance that combines a DIY laser device, multimodal AI, and embodied interaction to investigate how artificial intelligence participates in the production of gendered visibility. This is an IDEAS project by Anqi Liu, Mingyong Cheng, and Han Zhang.
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May 23, 2:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Maritime Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Joe Riley will be among the speakers in Drifting Ecologies. Anchored by artist MFA alum Allan Sekula’s Dead Letter Office, this discussion considers how artistic and critical practices in the Pacific open up intersections for thinking about maritime labor, transpacific trade, and the circulation of goods, images, and power across oceanic spaces.
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Reception: May 26, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Gallery QI, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
The exhibition explores the evolutionary impacts of microplastics in the environment, a long-standing problem that Yoldas first depicted in the Gallery QI exhibit EcoSystem of Excess in 2014 and will continue to explore in "There Exist Microplastics in My Subconscious and They are Seeping into My Dreams" at Gallery QI in May and June.
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Reception: May 29, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
May 26 - May 27, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Moving between the temporary architectures of the pandal and the ecological realities of post-ritual sites, the work reflects on what remains once symbols, structures, and ceremonies begin to dissolve. Through cycles of construction, immersion, collapse, and renewal, the installation considers the tensions between reverence, infrastructure, and the rapid reshaping of land, memory, and environment.
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May 28, 9:45 p.m.
Latino International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Rag Dolls follows Rosalinda and Diana, a married couple navigating life in Puebla, Mexico, where their disabilities intersect with poverty and discrimination. The film observes an ordinary day as they move through their routines with their two small dogs, venture out for a romantic date, and return home to reflect on their ongoing challenges and their enduring love.
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Reception: May 30, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 30 - August 1, 2026
Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA
Techne Art Center presents Endless Summer, an expansive group exhibition bringing together thirteen San Diego area artists in a survey of the region's elusive character. Curated by Chuck Thomas and staged across Techne's flagship exhibition space, the show extends each artist's practice into the architecture of the venue.
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"In Search of the Cannibal Internet" is a theoretical framework exploring how digital communities reclaim and repurpose commercial technology. It is the title of a digital culture essay by curator Doreen A. Ríos, exploring anti-colonial concepts tied to Oswald de Andrade's 1928 Cannibalist Manifesto. The essay proposes the concept of the "Cannibal Internet" as a method of digital resistance against Big Tech. Rather than being a sinister hidden website or dark web phenomenon, it refers to decentralized, community-run networks.
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March 14 - June 18, 2026
Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
These projects include recent INSITE commissions—ongoing explorations shaped by sustained research in the local landscape and ecologies—and works realized over two decades ago when site-specificity and border geopolitics occupied different positions within artistic practice and imagination.
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May 12 - July 25, 2026
Judith Harris Gallery, Central Library, San Diego, CA
Las Comadres includes MFA alumni Ruth Wallen, Cindy Zimmerman, Eloisa DeLeon, Anna O'Cain, Frances Charteris, Kit Aaboe, Aida Mancillas, BA alumni Berta Jottar, Maria Kristina Dybbro. The exhibition tells the visual story of land use through the perspective of artists whose work has touched, traversed and activated the site of Friendship Park.
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May 2 - July 25, 2026
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to present Within the Context of Time, a two-person exhibition bringing together new and recent works by May-ling Martinez and Coralys Carter. On view from May 2 through July 25, 2026, the exhibition explores memory, time, and family history through two distinct yet deeply resonant artistic practices.
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AJ+ YouTube Link
The article, "Families left in the dark: UCSD, USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to Navy for Israeli military training," reveals that the U.S. Navy has taken the first steps to extend the program that relies on anatomical donations from USC and the UC system until 2029. The U.S. Navy uses cadavers in its Joint Training Exercise program with the Israeli military.
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April 30 - May 28, Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Oh, Bland Age, Up Yours! is a Thursday matinee series of international short and feature-length queer films that offer experiences that remind us to think and work beyond the limitations of the slogan 'Love is Love,' especially approaching another June+ Pride Festival season.
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March 4 - May 23, 2026
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a selection of direct-cast bronze sculptures, photography, and drawing by the British artist Anya Gallaccio. Gallaccio is recognized for her use of organic materials to make sculpture and installation, and subverting them with the use of natural elements like dirt, flowers, fruits, and trees, subject to inevitable changing states of life, death, decomposition and transformation.
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Artist Talk: May 24, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
April 30 - May 24, 2026
DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The show includes over fifty photographs of Italian street art made between 2000 and 2025. Tobia’s extensive documentation of graffiti and street art offers an authentic witnessing of the contemporary Italian scene and its many crossovers into the Western/American political context.
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