Reception: April 17, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

April 14 - April 17, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

choreographies of becoming ( a film ) is a site-sensitive installation and durational performance with 16mm film. Through the interwoven, looping bodies of projector, film, screen, light,and shadow, this installation contends with how we hold memory: in movement, in muscle, in celluloid, in textile, in our relationships with one another.

Reception: April 17, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

April 14 - April 16, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. by appointment

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

This body of work explores the fluidity of my gendered identity through photography, staging and performance, particularly influenced by my mother and the American wrestler Shawn Michaels. In addition, this writing covers the relationship I possess with my family and the way their cisgendered bodies negotiate my androgyny.

Reception: April 17, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

April 17 - May 1, 2026

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Reception: April 18, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

April 18 - May 14, 2026

Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA

The exhibition brings together artists who view art as a tool to disrupt and to sound an alert. Emerging from a moment of heightened political and social tension, the exhibition reflects on a year marked by widespread protest and renewed public resistance to policies that have caused national and global instability. Along with Amy Sara Carroll (Literature), Dominguez and Stalbaum are part of Electronic Disturbance Theater.

April 19, 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Permanent Records Roadhouse, Los Angeles, CA

L.A.’s notorious comics happening is back. Graphic Novels, Original Art, Prints, T-shirts, $1 comics, beers, booze and BANDS! Featuring 20+ freak champions of contemporary cartoonists with their comics, graphic novels, original art, prints, tees, zines, and more!

April 21 - May 20, 2026

Guadalajar, Mexico

The Archive Must Open the Future: As it Assembles the Past is a retrospective of 30 years of Electronic Disturbance Theater gestures, curated by MFA alum Juan Bastardo. Along with Amy Sara Carroll (Literature), Dominguez and Stalbaum are part of Electronic Disturbance Theater.

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.

Reception: May 1, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

April 27 - May 1, see link for hours

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.

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.

January 31 - April 18, 2026

Judith Harris Art Gallery, San Diego Public Library

M(other) Tongue brings together artists who use textile to examine the interconnected experiences of migration, displacement, and cultural inheritance. Drawing on textile traditions rooted in women’s domestic and communal practices, the works approach stitching, weaving, and dyeing as forms of mark making; methods of carrying ancestral stories across borders and generations.

March 14 – April 18, 2026

TECHNE, Oceanside, CA

Across works that juxtapose Eastern philosophy with Western expression, the exhibition treats photography as a living language — a space where cultural boundaries blur, merge, and generate new forms of visual understanding. This is a deliberate experiment in Dialogue · Fusion · Rebirth: artists invite us to reframe perception rather than confirm familiar binaries.

March 14 - April 25, 2026

Quint ONE, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA

At ONE, Quint Gallery presents When black is burned, a single obsidian wall sculpture by Gallaccio. Obsidian is a natural occurring volcanic glass is formed from rapidly cooling lava of an explosive or volatile eruption. In 2014, she cut and polished a number of roughly edged slabs of this material, creating a mirrored surface.

March 6 - April 26, 2026

Vermont Photography Center, Brattleboro, VT

This year’s juried exhibition invited photographers to look outward—questioning the social, political, and environmental forces that shape our world. The selected works confront how we see, what we overlook, and the truths that demand our attention in a time of cultural and ecological reckoning. Juried by Marvin Heiferman.