January 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

First year MFAs in the Department of Literature Fiona Martinez, Sarah Mullen, Georgia Wright, and Klytie Xu will read their work in connection with the exhibition I am sending you love from the future. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows.

Reception: January 16, 5:00 p.m.

January 13 - January 17, 2025

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

DILATION( )/INTERSTITIUM is a durational sub/merging of light movement, & image. in this study, dancer & mfa candidate erika roos considers how the fluidity & disintegration of time shape the in-betweenness of bodily forms. 

Reception: January 16, 5:00 p.m.

January 13 - January 17, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Multimedia work considering the spaces we occupy, move through, and share, what it means to be a neighbor and the materials that build our environments.

Reception: January 16, 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

January 14 - January 16, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Life in Resonance is a cumulation of our works focusing primarily on exploring themes of universal connections, spirituality, and human expression. Through a variety of traditional and digital media, we explored the intersections between these topics through abstract representational depictions.

January 18, 1:00 p.m.

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Join us for a discussion between artist Monique van Genderen and poet Jennifer Moxley on the closing of The Sea Ranch, 2024: Some paintings, a photograph, a film and a poem. The two will discuss the exhibition's titular painting, followed by a poetry reading from Moxley.

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

January 21 - January 29, 2025

CSULB School of Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA

California State University, Long Beach is thrilled to announce the 20th Annual Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA), presented by the School of Art graduate students! This milestone exhibition celebrates two decades of showcasing exceptional work by MFA students from graduate programs across Southern California.

Reception: January 21, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Rhizome x ISLAA, New York, NY

On January 21 at 7pm, join us at The Institute For Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) for a conversation about digital artworks that explore the Mexico/US border. This event marks the launch of Post-border (code)pendency, a new online exhibition curated by Doreen Ríos for Rhizome’s ArtBase Anthologies series.

January 23, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia / Online

Paloma Checa-Gismero, author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global, is joined by leading historians of contemporary and Latin American art Tatiana Flores and Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide to unpack how contemporary art biennials became the defining events of the global art world in the 20th century.

Reception: January 25, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

two rooms, La Jolla, CA

Two Rooms is proud to present Backtrack, a two-person exhibition featuring Maddie Butler and Enrique Ciapara. Through assemblage and painting, Butler and Ciapara mediate images of everyday experiences into forms that reveal the imperfections of the hand.

Reception: January 25, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

LOS/NR, La Jolla, CA

A group show for the new year about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche - a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one's choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened.

January 28, 7:00 p.m.

WORD, Brooklyn NY

Join Emily Greenberg for the East Coast launch of her debut collection of short stories, Alternative Facts! The event will include a reading, Q&A, and book signing. Greenberg will be in conversation with author Nathaniel Kressen. The book tour will continue through March to Philadelphia, Belmont, Memphis, Los Angeles, and La Jolla. 

Reception: January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 31 - March 16, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

The first major solo exhibition in New York of this seminal post-Mexican, neo-American artist, it highlights new directions in his groundbreaking practice. A leading figure in the Mexican and Latinx artistic communities, Ortiz-Torres’s spectacular deconstruction of styles, dislocation of paradigms of identity, and creation of new forms of political aesthetics offers multiple perspectives on the fluidity of culture.

January 11 - February 15, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

For this exhibition, a new body of sculptures was created over the last year in addition to a portion of her ongoing series Pacific View Studies and Broken Garages, each a group of several dozen small deadpan black and white ink and graphite drawings of garage doors that conjure the work of the New Topographics photographers of the 1970s. 

January 9 - February 8, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows. Los Angeles-based curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos worked as the Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition, where she conducted studio visits with the cohort and devised the exhibition’s title and theme.

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

December 7, 2024 - January 18, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film. 

October 12, 2024 - January 18, 2025

The FRONT Arte y Cultura, San Ysidro, CA

This solo-exhibition assembles recent site specific works by Cognate Collective that consider the radical potentials of sound and collaboration when practiced as cursi radical – an aesthetics of proximity, vulnerability and collective care. The exhibition brings attention to historical and ongoing strategies local communities have developed to facilitate movement and sustain connection across borders.

September 21, 2024 - January 19, 2025

San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA

As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art and Science Collide, the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program presents a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

October 6, 2023 - January 19, 2025

Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK

Examining ideas of interconnectedness, caretaking, and listening—between humans, land, plants, and animals—the works on view invite reflection, encourage action, and seek to cultivate optimism in the face of challenge. 

September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Turner Contemporary, Margate UK

Anya Gallaccio: preserve is the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio. The exhibition spans three decades of Gallaccio’s radical practice, restaging several iconic sculptures in addition to a new site-specific commission. It reveals the artist’s consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment by presenting works that connect with Kent’s natural heritage.

November 27, 2024 - January 27, 2025

Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes, Bogotá Colombia

RealMix 0.4 brings together mixed-reality proposals by international and Latin American artists, curated by Asher Remy-Toledo and Doreen Ríos. Featured artists include Elder Tobar, Daniel Jiménez and Nicolás Romero (Trvshologrvm), Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Luis Enrique Zela Koort, Malitzin Cortes, Mattia Casalegno, Jiatong Yao, and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.