COMING UP

MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, JAX, Chanell Stone, Nathan Storey in NextGen 2024

Reception: July 13, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 13 - September 1, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

The annual exhibition, juried by a panel of art-world professionals, celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego and Baja California region. Through NextGen, ICA San Diego provides local emerging artists with both exhibition opportunities and professional development, while highlighting the strength of our creative community.

MFA alumni Tigercrow Collective exhibition and Elsewhere

Reception: July 13, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 13 - August 17, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Tigercrow Collective includes MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and Naomi Nadreau. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. Best Practice is co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty.

Professors Ricardo Dominguez & Brett Stalbaum's Electronic Disturbance Theater, UG alum Diana Benavídez in Border Blasters

Reception: July 13, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 12 – August 17, 2024

Bonita Museum, Bonita CA

Border Blasters is an exhibition and programming exploring the impact of TJ/SD radio/television/music in the region. The exhibition, curated by [undergraduate alum] Diana Benavídez, Bill Perrine and Itza Vilaboy, presents creatives utilizing sound and visuals to transcend the physical border.

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage

Reception: July 13, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 13 - September 14, 2024

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles CA

Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.

Professor dean erdmann exhibition 38

Reception: July 13, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

July 13 - September 28, 2024

Louche Ops, Berlin, Germany

38 consists of a body of work that arose from erdmann's interest and research into Magnus Hirschfeld's das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and its voluminous influence on queer histories. erdmann's practice has long been concerned with the ways in which subjects develop and diverge in relation to their environments, geological and/or socio-political.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca & Lizelle Lopez Aguilar organized Artists in Solidarity: Fifth Annual Auction for Migrant Families

July 13 - July 28, 2024

We are excited to announce Artists in Solidarity's Fifth Annual Auction for Migrant Families. The immigrant's plight in the US is untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process. This year, all profits after operating costs will benefit Al Otro Lado and Border Kindness.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos talk Medios inestables y prácticas curatoriales

July 19, 2024

Santo Domingo del Cerro, Antigua Guatemala

ArtTec, the first Ibero-American Digital Art Congress held in Central America, is an opportunity to facilitate the exchange of ideas and build sustainable artistic platforms, generate a dialogue between internationally recognized exponents of "New Media" and the local community to educate and support a thriving community of creatives of the next era.

MFA cohort exhibition a handful of fog

Reception: July 20, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

July 20 - July 27, 2024, by appointment

Elliott Hundley Studio, Los Angeles CA

Exhibiting Artists: Deanna Barahona, JAX, Jun!yi Min, naomi nadreau, Chanell Stone, and Nathan Storey. Curated by: Coralys Carter and Cat Gunn. a handful of fog invokes the attempt of grasping at something nearly impossible to capture, continually escaping containment or comprehension. Yet, even with this slippage, we yearn for an understanding that feels unobtainable.

MFA alum Deanna Barahona article Art of the City

San Diego Union Tribune

In that UCSD exhibition, “All I Can Leave You is the Glitter,” she displayed a number of large-scale, screenprint-and-tile pieces that gave a more micro view into family and culture. Using her own family history and photos as initial templates, often zoomed and pixelated, her work aims to explore, as she puts it, “the impression of memories and ephemerality” specifically those in the Latin American community.

MFA alum Susan Mogul in Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles

June 21 – August 9, Oruzar Projects, New York NY

June 29 - August 10, as-is.la, Los Angeles CA

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

MFA candidate Emily Greenberg in Speculative Futures

June 20, 2024 - Ongoing

Digital Arts Student Competition and Exhibition

The exhibition seeks not only to envision potential outcomes but also to inspire reflective dialogue on our collective trajectory in an ever-evolving world. We look forward to continuing this vital partnership with future ISEA host cities and DAC ACM SIGGRAPH, fostering a global conversation about our shared future.

CLOSING SOON

MFA Nathan Storey in room in a room in a room

Closing Reception & Talk: July 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 6 - July 14, 2024 

Level of Service Not Required, La Jolla CA

This group exhibition features eight local artists with significant voices and influence working in photography, painting, printmaking, pottery and sculpture. There will be an opening reception with a ribbon cutting ceremony and an ice cream truck onsite offering free soft serve cones.

MFA alum Sadie Barnette in Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation

February 16 - July 14, 2024

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA

Conceived as a commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond. Highlighting the perspectives of contemporary Black artists, Emancipation features commissioned and recent works. 

Professor Mariah Garnett in COLA 2024


May 18 - July 20, 2024

LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Garnett's new film Songbook is included in this year's COLA Independent Master Artist Project exhibition. Songbook was developed with the support of The City of Los Angeles, The Industry LAB (2022). Thematic iterations have shown in 2022 at CAMH and 2021 at Commonwealth + Council.

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