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March 4 - March 5, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
The paintings in this show by students of VIS 106B explore thoughtful composition, reaching abstraction, and intentional use of supports and materials. Each work showcases deliberate choices, highlighting the variety of approaches, experiments, and creative voices across the class.
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March 6, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice: Professor Gerardo Aldana, UC Santa Barbara. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.
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March 7, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
DINO DINCO contributed an audio recorded text on the subject of cruelty upon invitation by electronic music artist and sound composer Robert Takahashi Novak for "The Voices We Keep," which was commissioned and will be performed as a component of the exhibition Robert Therrien: This is a Story.
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March 8 - August 23, 2026
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease.
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March 12, 3:30 - 6:20 p.m.
Mandeville B114, UC San Diego
Karen Li • Charline Li • Cindy Zhou • Vinny Xiong • Vivian Lee • Nathally Montiel Romero • Cassandra Covarruvias • Thorsaeng Thanopajai • Tiffany Liang • Angela Le • Ashlie Kim • Joseph Soriano • Regina Kim • Milay Galbraith • Noah Gallardo
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March 12, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Jacobs Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Since the 1970s, Joey Terrill, a Los Angeles based Chicano artist, has explored the intersection of his Latino and gay male identities in his art. A native Angeleno, he studied at Immaculate Heart Collage and California State University, Los Angeles. Living with HIV for 45 years, his art career has paralleled and documented his four decades as an AIDS activist.
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March 13, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego
Join us for an inspiring conversation with UC San Diego alumni shaping the future of design across theatre, film, and immersive storytelling. Al-e McWhorter '18 is a production designer and art director whose career bridges film, visual media, and world-building.
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They won the category “Climate Action” for establishing a rooted network of spaces across the border region that link university and community to support vulnerable people at the frontlines of the climate-migration crisis. Most recently, they have built Santuario Frontera in Tijuana, now the largest migrant sanctuary in the US-Mexico border region, and the only one centrally dedicated to binational ecosystem protection.
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Witsken Writing
Voyager is a beautifully illustrated children's story about curiosity, family, and finding your place in the universe. Blending gentle science concepts with heart, this book introduces young readers to space in a way that is imaginative, comforting, and inspiring.
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February 28 - March 15, 2026
Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA
The Sweepers, a new conceptual art exhibition of the work of acclaimed animation leader and multi-media artist Marge Dean. Each piece is built around the same concept: What would a world where housework is valued — and the women doing it recognized as creative visionaries — look like?
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YouTube
Esteemed poet aja monet offers “hollyweird” - With a haunting afro-punk drum and horn, aja reports on the Los Angeles fires of 2025 with visceral descriptions of fire, loss and the larger metaphor of change. aja monet is a poet, performer, and educator from East NY, Brooklyn, best known as the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poets' Café Grand Slam title.
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Over the past decade, FIELD has remained committed to providing independent critical analysis of activist and engaged and art practices, filling a significant void in contemporary art criticism. This is an absence that has only become more conspicuous in recent years, given the broad rise of neo-authoritarianism both in the U.S. and globally.
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UC San Diego Today
Graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts are grappling with questions of cultural displacement, exploring the boundaries between the natural and artificial world, reframing transgender visual culture in Latin America and more. As a preview of what’s in store at this weekend's Open Studios, we caught up with five students to learn more about what drives their creative work.
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UC San Diego Today
The show is curated by Mashonda Tifrere, an international curator, collector, author and advocate. The project holds special meaning. “I have followed Faith’s work since my adolescence, growing up on the same Harlem streets she did,” said Tifrere. “Her advocacy for women artists and her relentless fight for their rights have always inspired me. This aligns closely with the mission of my platform, ArtLeadHer.”
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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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November 1, 2025 - March 13, 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.
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February 12 – March 13, 2026
Da Vinci Gallery, LA City College, Los Angeles, CA
Instructions for Another World gathers a collective of emerging artists whose practices operate as materials from adjacent realities, worlds built through metal, memory, and ritual. The exhibition treats instruction not as command, but as speculative fragments, gestures, and tools for navigating futures and worlds which are not yet legible.
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