COMING UP

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Postdoctoral Fellow Sahar Sajadieh in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Online Exhibition

CVPR AI Art Gallery, Seattle WA

Tales of the Hair (قصه های گیسو) is my artistic response to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran, my personal-political dance in a dialogue with the wisdom of Persian mythology, and my poetic therapeutic co-creation with generative AI. Tales of the Hair strives to decolonize and reclaim the narratives of the Iranian movement while creating a universal visual poetry about obtaining one’s power as a community.

PhD candidate Coral Pereda Serras Residency Leonardo@Djerassi

Leonardo, Arizona State University

International residents will explore the boundaries of art and science while immersed in a natural laboratory designed by the extraordinary beauty of our land. Their collaborative research and experimentation will depart from and transcend the focus areas of artificial intelligence, astronomy, painting, environmental art, music, critical art theory, poetry, digital art, and computer image analysis.

MFA alum Angela Washko appointed to Stamps Faculty

University of Michigan

With a compelling portfolio of creative work that ranges from multimedia installations to films, video games, creative writing, and more, Washko is an internationally renowned artist and an experienced educator whose research deploys methodologies that span the interdisciplinary structure of art and design.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol The Blue of It

June 29 - July 27, 2024

Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles CA

This painting series by Piersol, inspired by a plethora of influences ranging from Mary Oliver’s nature-infused poetry to the ethereal music of Fleetwood Mac, invites viewers into a world where tradition and personal narrative intermingle with the natural world, creating a profound sense of continuity and resilience.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Nineteenth-Century Photography Now

April 9 - July 7, 2024

Getty Center, Los Angeles CA

The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist today. Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists.

PhD student Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres curated Shan Shui Reboot

March 7 - July 7, 2024

China Institute Gallery, New York NY

The exhibition highlights a new generation of artists who are reinterpreting traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of today’s global social issues and climate crisis. Shan shui refers to the time-honored painting of natural landscapes with brush and ink focused on an awareness of inner spiritual philosophy.

MFA alum Lorna Simpson in Giants

February 10 - July 7, 2024 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection (Swizz Beats & Alicia Keys), Giants showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative.

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. 

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