COMING UP

UG VIS 147A & 142 class exhibition Tentacular Currents

December 9 - December 12, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Students have developed artworks and installations that utilize digital electronics. Techniques in digital electronic construction and computer interfacing for interactive control of sound, lighting, and electromechanics are used to create an electro-sculptural art exhibition.

UG group exhibition Nothing to Lose: Expressions of Bold Vulnerability

December 11 - December 13, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.


Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

This exhibition delves into the theme of bold vulnerability, presenting raw, fearless expressions through a variety of mediums, including photography, paintings, sculptures, videos, and more. We encourage you to stop by during the opening or anytime throughout the week to immerse yourself in this inspiring showcase.

BA alum Marisa DeLuca solo exhibition What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Reception: December 14, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

December 14, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA

Supporting the farewell programming for the Hill Street Country Club's closing in Oceanside, artist Marisa DeLuca will be holding a solo exhibition reflecting on catastrophic change in the region. Her body of work examines time, memory, and the socioeconomic implications of cultural erasure through oil paintings and installation.

PhD student Carl Schmitz talk “Tupi or Not Tupi”: Contemporary Film and the Archive of Colonial Encounter

December 18, 2024

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

"Decentring Documentary: New Visions and Perspectives" is the theme for the thirtieth installment of the Visible Evidence Conference, the preeminent event for the global network dedicated to the study of documentary and nonfiction media culture. Taking the antipodean location of this year’s gathering as a provocation and impetus for thought, Visible Evidence XXX invites participants to reflect on the theme of “decentering.”

MFA alumni mika Castañeda, Maria Antonia Eguiarte, beck haberstroh, and Victor Castañeda H Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo

December 20, 7:30 p.m.

Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA

Presented as part of Project [Blank]'s Salty Series of performances, Bob Cratchit is on his way home from work when a spaceship crash lands in his path. In this extraterrestrial twist on a holiday classic, an alien, a gallerist, an enormous piece of sacred toast and YOU help Bob navigate his existential workplace woes.

PhD students Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres, Hande Sever, PhD alum Elize Mazadiego awarded Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants


The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts. These grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. 

Professor Monique van Genderen exhibition The Sea Ranch, 2024

December 7, 2024 - January 4, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film. 

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, BA alum Kimberly Heard in Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier curated Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

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.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Michael Trigilio in online exhibition GUI/GOOEY

October 19 - December 19, 2024

Plexus Projects Online, Brooklyn NY

Plexus Projects presents a series of online exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. GUI/GOOEY features artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools.

BA alum Farshid Bazmandegan exhibition Drifting in Between

November 2 - December 21, 2024

Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Bazmandegan explores the intersection of space, memory, and the material world to examine the complexities of exile and displacement. Through installation, sculpture, and painting, he evokes the profound sense of loss, absence, and trauma that often accompanies the body and mind of an exile.

Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel exhibition Slice of Life

October 25 - December 21, 2024

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

Slice of Life showcases a group of MacConnel’s seminal “bedsheet” paintings alongside a number of smaller gouaches on paper, which served as studies for the larger works. The presentation of this selection of works, all produced between 1978 and 1982, offers fresh insight into a key figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement.

MFA student Jamil Baldwin, MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in Structures of Feeling

December 6 - December 22, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

The works in this exhibition challenge us to find other ways to talk about photography and the problem of interpretation. Together they acknowledge, explore and trouble cultural genealogies as well as systems of value, familial and otherwise, both locally and globally.

MFA alum, former Lecturer Ruth Wallen & former Professor Adriene Jenik in exhibition Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees

September 7 - December 29, 2024

Museume of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster CA

The Desert Forest exhibition, part of Getty's PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative, sheds light on the endangered Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it. Additionally the article "Calling for Action" in the current edition of Aesthetica Magazine features Ruth Wallen's artwork and an interview with exhibition curator Sant Khalsa and Ruth.

Aesthetica Magazine Article

MFA alum Hung Liu in Cultural Connect: Made in America

February 1 - December 31, 2024

Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview TX

Celebrating American artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, using works from LMFA’s diverse Permanent Collection. Jewish-American Native-America Asian-American African-American Naïve or Self-taught Latin-American U.S. Veterans East Texas and Local.

Emeriti Professors Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard 

June 29, 2024 - January 5, 2025 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard marks the first standalone museum presentation of the fully realized indoor citrus grove conceived and designed in 1972 by artists and Emeriti Professors Helen Mayer Harrison (1927–2018) and Newton Harrison (1932–2022).

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