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MFA alum Aitor Lajarin Encina Suburban Dad

Reception: August 17, 6:00 p.m.

Comanches Garage, Chula Vista CA

Yasmine K. Kasem will present, “The Philosophers are Incoherent.” A site-specific installation and collaborative activation featuring recent and new textile and fiber series which investigate intersections of identity, religion, love and conflict from the perspective of a Queer Egyptian and Muslim artist from the Midwest.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in The View We Seek

Reception: August 18, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

August 18 - September 17, 2023

High Bay Gallery, New York NY

This exhibition is an exploration of the nuances of human existence, functioning as a space for the experiencing of shared truths. It is a carnival of Americana, where pop culture symbology, utopian aspirations, existential alienation, and domestic strife bleed together, disrupting notions and categories of fine art.

Asst. Prof. Memo Akten in Surreal Futures

August 27, 2023–January 28, 2024

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl Germany

Artists from 19 countries address the urgent questions of the 21st century in interactive video works, virtual and augmented reality experiences, multimedia installations and digital image worlds, with a view to the impact of globalisation, digitalisation and the climate crisis.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Se Busca

August 5 - November 12, 2023

Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA

SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. Memory as in generational trauma, indigeneity, Purépecha ancestry, and how these memories from blood and dirt are transported through migration. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.

Asst. Prof. Janelle Iglesias in The Path Guides the Meaning

August 11 - September 9, 2023

Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco CA

As our lives are increasingly consumed, and our actions dictated by mediated experiences, dominated by screens, regulated by algorithmic determinacy, and divorced from the physicality of our world, the work of artists engaged in process-based practices remind us of the importance of making and doing as a pathway to meaning, learning, and growth.

Asst. Prof. Janelle Iglesias Loose Lips

August 12 - September 15, 2023

Material Gallery, Salt Lake City UT

In response to current and traumatic events including legislative restrictions on reproductive justice, the family members are inspired by and incorporate diagrammatic signifiers for matrescence and family planning into their textile designs. In these new knit paintings, the artists contribute a variety of techniques in the process of constructing the artworks and guide the creation through collective decision making.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell named 2023–24 Freund Fellow


e-flux Education

The annual Freund Fellowship involves teaching an art course at the school, giving a public lecture, and a solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Campbell will spend a semester in St. Louis teaching a class of their own design, titled “Artists in the Archive.” They’ll take the class to various archives throughout St. Louis and use what they find as a jumping off point for artworks.

MFA alum Martha Rosler profile


New York Times Magazine

Rosler, 80, has earned the strange distinction of being the institutionally celebrated godmother of American protest art. Using media ranging from performance and video to photography and sculpture, she has been mounting an unrelenting opposition to America’s various social injustices — and to many of its citizens’ willful ignorance of them. 

Profs. Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Monique van Genderen in Perpetual Portrait

CLOSING SOON!

July 8 - August 19, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Focusing on artists who have made the portrait a central part of their practice, the exhibition brings together a multitude of approaches and perspectives by artists from different generations and cultural perspectives to situate our understanding of the genre into a new and complex framework.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell Ode to the Underloved

CLOSING SOON!

June 9 – August 19, 2023

Artists Space, New York NY

Allowing the architecture and other conditions of the gallery to create a choreography, Campbell’s filmic installation brilliantly pulls viewers into an embodied experience where they become actors in a kind of living theater, witnesses to complex histories.

MFA alumni Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems in American Gurl

CLOSING SOON!

June 24 - August 20, 2023

Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles CA

Womxn in Windows presents ‘American Gurl,’ an ongoing curatorial project that showcases video art, film, and performance to unpack and re-envision the American Dream through the lens of women. Co-curated by Zehra Zehra and Kilo Kish, this iteration of the American Gurl project takes its shape as a group film exhibition.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Death Drive

CLOSING SOON!

September 23, 2022 - August 25, 2023

Rice University, Houston TX

Join the Moody and the artist Danielle Dean to celebrate the opening of Death Drive, a new installation in the Off the Wall program. The series commissions Core residency program alumni to create a site-specific installation for this space that will be on view for one year. 

MFA alum Işık Kaya in Into the Uncanny Valley

CLOSING SOON!

July 14 - August 26, 2023

Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Into the Uncanny Valley features four artists who came of age during the digital revolution and whose work responds to novel and often fabricated realities. As augmented realities and deep fakes become increasingly advanced and prevalent, they are beginning to challenge social order and established hierarchies, while also destabilizing our own internal judgment.

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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