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May 19 - May 24, 2025
Time: Sunrise to Sunset
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Hold we to the centre of remembrance
To utter the whispers lodged in the throat
To acknowledge the precarity of breath and preserve it
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May 17 - May 24, 2025
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
This is a duo exhibition of painting and film.
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Reception: May 23, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May 19 - May 23, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
UpThere, VAF 353, UC San Diego
A series of exhibitions throughout the spring presented by Lecturer Dino Dinco including UG students Youngmi Bombach, Malika Charles, Adi Venkatesh, Amanda Salatino, Holda Ashima, Jaime Leynes, Jeana Yoon, Kyra Brantley, Lauren Reed, Maximiliano Hernandez, and Noah Harvey.
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May 23 - May 24, 7:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m.
panke.gallery, Berlin, Germany
Amy Alexander's 1998 net art work, The Plagiarist Manifesto, will be included in "In Between - A NetArt Exhibition for Bright Night." This group show of early, minimalist net art is part of Bright Night, a sound night curated by panke.gallery. Bright Night refers to the equinox—a fleeting moment of balance, when day and night are briefly equal.
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Reception: May 24, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Studio Culture, San Diego, CA
Part of several exhibitions opening at Studio Culture, a new non-profit arts org that provides affordable spaces for artists to develop and exhibit their work. Zebulon Zang presents "A Complete Waste of Time & Energy" and Diana Benavídez is included in "8 Outlets."
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May 27, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
Jackie Amézquita is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice. Her research is articulated through the use of biomaterials and forms associated with pre-Columbian cultures. Amézquita creates public performances, installations, and objects that fuse indigenous mythologies with contemporary community engagement.
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Reception: May 28, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 27 - May 30, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
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May 28, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Geisel Library, Seuss Room
Drawing from their latest works, “Freeset” and “Loka,” the authors will explore how speculative fiction can address timely societal issues, including identity, memory and technology. The conversation will be moderated by Jac Jemc, Teaching Professor of Literary Arts and Faculty Director of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop.
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May 28, 8:00 - 11:59 p.m.
Bendito Bar, Tijuana, MX
Continuing the robust history between nightlife and performance art, Lecturer DINO DINCO launches the series, PERVERTIDO in Tijuana, México. The inaugural event features new performance work from Chimuelo (Tijuana), alumni Navíl Martínez (San Diego), Ian Guzmán & student Ariya Uyeno (San Diego), and Gregory Barnett (Los Angeles).
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May 29, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facilities, UC San Diego
This show celebrates the first year of my MFA journey and honors the poetics of travesti memory and presence in nightlife, arts, and activism. Rooted in photography, my work navigates the intersections of trans identity, affects, and the audacity of living, tenderly archiving what refuses to be erased. Sounds by DJ Bapuji will be moving us through the evening.
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Reception: May 31, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
May 31 - July 19, 2025
Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Mpagi Sepuya creates photographs that weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium.
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Kamil Gallery Online
All 31 entries for the awards are viewable, including the prize winners and honorable mentions. For the special occasion of the 15th awards, the Department of Visual Arts invited past winners to attend and speak about their experience and their careers. The 16 videos by the past winners who were able to attend are also viewable.
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March 1 - June 15, 2025
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.
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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.
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