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February 4, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Steve Fagin is an American artist and former professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He has produced a series of feature length videos, including The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel, The Machine That Killed Bad People, and TropiCola (the latter produced in collaboration with some of the most important theatre actors and producers in Havana).
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February 3 - February 5, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
Hasta La Raíz explores the intersection of textile, pattern, and cultural identity through portraiture as living carriers of cultural memory. The work reflects on Mexican-American identity, navigating the space between two cultures while resisting the erasure that can accompany acculturation.
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Gallery Hours: February 2 - February 6, 2026
by appointment
Experimental Theater, Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD
Moving image installation with live score by Michelle Sui, performed live by the first year DMA/PhD cohort of the UCSD Department of Music.
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February 7, 7:00 p.m.
Experimental Theater, Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD
Celebrate the release of Boris Acosta-Jaramillo’s debut album, Echoes of Origin, with an evening of live music at the Experimental Theater. Featuring original compositions and performances by a stellar ensemble, this concert invites listeners on a journey of musical rediscovery and shared emotion.
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February 7 - February 9, 2026
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, CA
Rosalinda and Diana are Mexican women living together with disabilities. Both wheelchair users, their life in the outskirts of the city of Puebla is challenging, but despite difficult circumstances, they find ways to love and take care of each other. A short documentary film by Professor Amy Adler, edited by MFA alum Paolo Zuñiga.
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February 7 - September 6, 2026
The Cheech, Riverside, CA
Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026 is the first major survey to examine the depth and evolution of Chicana/o/x lens-based image-making over the past 60 years. Featuring some 150 works by nearly 50 U.S. Chicana/o/x artists, the exhibition moves thematically and intergenerationally, spanning early activist photographers with contemporary artists whose work builds upon this powerful legacy.
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February 9 - February 10, 2026
Museum of Contemporary Art, Univ. São Paulo, Brazil
Bringing together researchers, curators, artists, and collections professionals, the seminar explores the historical intersections between art and information technologies. It emphasizes how critical and activist practices were already creating alternative technological experiences, independent networks, and counter-hegemonic strategies within the digital field.
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Reception: February 13, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
February 9 - February 13, 2026
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
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Reception: February 17, 6:00 p.m.
February 16 - February 20, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
An exploration into the nostalgia of two people who are completely different yet one and the same.
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ArtReview
To help make sense of what the exhibition materials call ‘a changing world shaped by unfettered mediation, environmental degradation and economic precarity’, they’ve designed a suit of cat-themed tarot cards. Like all of My Barbarian’s pastiches, their take on tarot – using stylised prints, a campy performance video and a minimalist costume stand – exaggerates the tendencies of a preexisting cultural form.
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January 31, 2026 - 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.
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The Guardian, UC San Diego
Mandeville Gallery’s latest Master of Fine Arts exhibition, “To Hold is To Be Held,” opened last Thursday, Jan. 15, drawing in a large and eager crowd of students, faculty, and art appreciators alike. The exhibit explores the idea of a frame not merely as a border, but as a container that shapes how viewers interpret images and objects.
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MER.BOOKS
From 2021 to 2024, the historic Maison Routier in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie became a hub for bold ideas, artistic exchange, and radical imagination. Founded by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans, Radicale1924 welcomed visionary artists, researchers, and creators, carrying forward a village tradition once home to André and Elisa Breton.
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Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to announce the 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees, a cohort of ten accomplished artists and arts workers selected through a highly competitive national open call. Working across visual art, film, writing, sound, and performance, the awardees bring rigorous, publicly engaged practices that position Tulsa as a hub for ambitious, cross-disciplinary work and national creative exchange.
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January 15 - February 13, 2026
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Participating artists: Jamil Baldwin, Rahul Basu, Sophia Cleary, Walker Hewitt, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Aambr Newsome, erika roos, and Andrew Wharton. The group exhibition To Hold is To Be Held features Visual Arts MFA students in their final year, serving as a preview to their thesis projects. Curatorial Advisor: Selene Preciado, Curator and Director of Programs, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
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September 26, 2025 - February 8, 2026
MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
This first major retrospective since 1999 – and the first ever in Europe – presents Antin’s œuvre in full breadth. The exhibition highlights the continued relevance and influence of her work from the late 1960s till today, when issues of power imbalance and collective and individual representation have taken on renewed urgency.
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January 10 - February 14, 2026
Oolong Gallery, San Diego, CA
The ADORNO group exhibition revisits the enduring question of artistic autonomy in an era saturated by images, circulation, and online spectacle. Drawing its title from the critical legacy of Theodor Adorno, the exhibition stages a contemporary inquiry into art that resists easy consumption—works that operate according to their own internal logics, slow down immediacy, demand presence and emphasize experimentation.
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January 11 - February 14, 2026
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Titled after a 1949 drawing by Toyen and framed by his monograph Royal Book Lodge (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023), Welchman draws on Raoul Vaneigem’s tart critique of Surrealism set out in Histoire désinvolte du surrealism (A Cavalier History of Surrealism,1977) to discuss how Bourgoin, Susin and their RBL friends and colleagues worked through an epistemological and aesthetic inquiry that developed a salient dispute with the historical deployment of alchemical metaphoricity.
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December 13, 2025 - February 15, 2026
The WOO, San Diego, CA
HyperSonic Panoramic Dreamz navigates the blurred space between memory, familial histories, fantasies, politics, and the body. Hyper-Sonic evokes a high frequency sensory blast, a collapse of time, emotion in the symbolic landscapes where multiple realities coexist at once. The title reflects our current moment holding space for potentiality and imagining different modes of survival.
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October 22, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world.
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