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Reception: April 30, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
April 28, 2:15 - 4:00 p.m.; April 29, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
An interdisciplinary, ethnographical attempt at weaving Jewish university student stories & continued solidarity with the Palestinian people from across the United States. In making this series I thought and asked other students about the aspects of Judaism and of the community we are around that ground us in continued resistance and resilience.
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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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Reception: May 1, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
April 27 - April 30, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
This thesis exhibition explores ancestral veneration as it manifests through the body, the object, and image-making. Rooted in the artist’s engagement with myth, ritual, and sacred objects, the work considers how animacy is transmitted—through acts of making, through the repetition of everyday gestures, and through the enduring presence of familial spirits.
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Reception: May 1, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
April 27 - May 1, see link for details
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Auto-Insectification traces the development of the archetype of the homunculus: the inhuman, human-made intelligence through which the human being reflects and reflexively constructs itself. Auto-Insectification denies the homunculus, searching for a new model of intelligence and humanity in the figure of the insect.
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May 1, 7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater, UCSD
Monocromo (aka Emir Chacra) first Live Electronics set with all original music, featuring earthfruit on live visuals. Expect to dance to merging influences of club music, and immerse yourself in a full audiovisual experience.
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Reception: May 2, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 2 - June 13, 2026
Best Practice, San Diego, CA
Amy Adler, Ken Gonzales-Day, Cat Gunn, William E. Jones, Morgan Lieberman, Stephen Milner, Darian Newman, Matt Savitsky, Joe Yorty. Curated by MFA alum Nathan Storey.
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Reception: May 2, 5:00 - 7:00 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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May 2 - May 3, 2026
At Louis Place, Online Writing Community
The Artist Publishing Practicum is a virtual crash course on pathways to book publishing, designed for artists and open to all. This year's workshops are led by our generous community of designers, editors, authors, experimental publishers, book coaches, and more.
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May 3, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
San Diego Made Factory, San Diego, CA
SUBLIME: Above the Mountains is a solo exhibition and multi-sensory experience by Maka Uddin. Rooted in themes of identity, diaspora, and nostalgia, her work explores what it means to move through, beyond, and above the landscapes that shape us- both physical and internal. Her Afghan and Georgian heritages remain central to this exploration.
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Reception: May 4, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 5 - May 8, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
My work focuses on the practice and display of care for the subject. Often in powerless positions, my subjects are vulnerable to the gaze of the viewer. I aim to encourage the viewer to examine their attitude toward the powerless subject. I want to explore the concept of trust and how it is given or received, and when.
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May 6, 12:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Glass Center, UC San Diego
As a part of VIS 146A Computer Controlled Fabrication this quarter, the class is making sand cast molds from 3D printed parts and open pouring in the new Glass Center. Open to the public, so come get inspired by the possibilities!
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May 13, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UC San Diego
The New Writing Series invites local, national, and international authors to read and perform throughout the academic year. Welcoming a wide range of authors and genres, including playwrights, poets, translators, essayists, critics, fiction writers, and performance artists, the New Writing Series celebrates both emerging and established award-winning writers.
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UC San Diego Student Employment Office
Presenting our 2026 Student Employees of the Year! These Tritons have gone above and beyond in their roles across campus. Chloe Twu has excelled in her work at the Mandeville Art Gallery, demonstrating integrity and the ability to apply transferable skills toward future goals.
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Annenberg Media & The UCSD Guardian
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 11 - July 19, 2026
Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE
Historical show comparing federal funding of the arts under the New Deal and under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Display includes documentary photos of the Cultural Council Foundation’s CETA Artists Project in NYC by Blaise Tobia. Posters, books and historical research lent by Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia.
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April 11 - July 31, 2026
Vista Library, Vista, CA
A multidisciplinary art exhibition and community-driven project that transforms radiation therapy masks previously used to immobilize cancer patients during treatment into works of art. These masks, which are often associated with fear, vulnerability, and survival, are reclaimed by artists and reimagined as expressions of resilience, identity, and healing.
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UC San Diego Today
A new exhibition by Professor Pinar Yoldas will explore the evolutionary impacts of microplastics in the environment, a long-standing problem that Yoldas first depicted in the 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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February 28 - May 1, 2026
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Curated by Mashonda Tifrere, the exhibition is framed conceptually through Ringgold’s relationship to UC San Diego, where she served as professor of visual arts from 1984 to 2002. This institutional affiliation provides a lens for understanding how her academic philosophy materialized throughout her practice and impacted not only those she mentored at UC San Diego, but generations of artists around the world.
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April 17 - May 1, 2026
SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
In Every Step Is Moving Me Up, Hewitt is exploring themes of walking, queer gathering, commitment, and what it means to be a neighbor. Through painted, ceramic and installative works, Hewitt reflects on how we construct and delineate space, how we articulate boundaries, and what it means to make a barrier more permeable.
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October 4, 2025 - May 3, 2026
SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA
(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present. Borrowing its title from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s featured series, Constructing History, this installation invites audiences to imagine the layers of history we encounter through a seemingly fixed image.
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September 23, 2025 - May 9, 2026
Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, CA
Concrete Hope foregrounds the multiplicity of Brown identity in Southern California as a mode of cultural self-affirmation. Bringing together thirty-eight emergent photographers and lens-based artists, the exhibition examines how media based photography, articulates the layered narratives and lived experiences of this complex community.
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April 4 - May 9, 2026
Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
Material is often understood as stable, yet across contemporary practice, it increasingly functions otherwise; materials carry within them traces of time, systems of circulation, or conditions of perception. Across these artists' respective practices, material remains unresolved, layered, mediated, and reconfigured, holding together multiple temporalities and contexts simultaneously.
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