COMING UP

VIS 141A class A Clusterf#ck o'Spices + Bugs

March 13, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Mandeville B-116, UC San Diego

Showcase of work from VIS 141A Winter of 2024. Artists will be present to discuss their projects.

UG Studio Honors Open Studios

March 14, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Mandeville 203, UC San Diego

Marley Baluch, Cole Byers, Kleo Zhou, Lillia Weismuller, Jordan Cathcart, Partha Shankar, Rachel Holsworth, Robyn Rosete, Chloe Nickels, Angel Ren, Youngmi Bombach. STUDIO HONORS is a two consecutive quarter sequence for advanced students focusing on developing a self-directed studio practice and producing a Thesis Project.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos conversation De Disney a los memes

March 14, 6:00 p.m.

Museo Universitario del Chopo, Ciudad de México MX

Currently, cybernetic reality generates a reinterpretation of pop signs that challenges and enriches their meaning and relevance in the artistic field. To delve deeper into the topic, specialists meet to talk, question and trace a line of exploration of pop art from different approaches and perspectives at the local and global level.

VIS 106B class Sentiment and the Self

March 12 - March 15, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Abby Boyers, Amanda Brex, Julia Bushman, Tessa Chan, Sophie Devaney, Paige Fleisler, Eliana Flores, Christina Giang, Vanessa Ha, Saanvi Kotia, Isabel Krashenny, Hannah Lee, Layn Lee, Kaylee Lien, Alejandro Mendoza-Mercado, QuyenDi Nguyen, Heather Nicosia, James Olichney, Natalia Robles, William Ung.

Water for Life screening and Q&A

March 15, 6:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center, UC San Diego

As part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Department of Visual Arts is pleased to co-sponsor this screening of Water for Life, which will include a Q&A with director Will Parrinello. The filmtraces the collision of water rights, indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders.

UG student Casey Toy RISING

March 15 - March 17, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

UpThere, 353 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

The artist premiers a series of photographic collages that emotively seek identity from a Chinese perspective. In mapping social and cultural moments in time within the displayed work, these collages reflect the artist’s journey in the ongoing development of Self.

Profs. Lorena Mostajo & Alexandro Segade, MFA alum Matthew T Williams, UG alum Leslye Villaseñor in Leucadia

Garden Art Party: March 16, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

March 16 - April 20, 2024

Oolong Gallery + Brown Studio, Encinitas CA

The Brown Studio includes a gallery and a garden which will be transformed into an exhibition and art party site from 5-9pm on Saturday, March 16. The Oolong warehouse will host a large scale salon style main exhibition (opening from 12-4pm) for the duration of the joint shows through April 20.

MFA candidate Jamil Baldwin in Reencuentros: Seeing You Again

Reception: March 16, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

March 2 - May 18, 2024

Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA

Home is universal and home is deeply personal; family can be anyone, and family is specifically someone. The exhibition Reencuentros: Seeing You Again presents eight contemporary photographers whose works delve into the ubiquitous and intimate nature of family and home.

UG alum Catherine Alderete screening La Paloma

March 18 & 20, 7:00 p.m.

SDLFF, AMC Mission Valley, San Diego CA

Screening as part of the Frontera Filmmakers - Shorts Film program in the 31st San Diego Latino Film Festival. The year is 1952, and post-war America experienced an uproar in violence. The Village Theater in Coronado is the scene of the crime, and a certain type of evil is in the darkness.

Mia Navarro The Utmost Joys of Living

Kamil Gallery Online

In this series, I try to make people feel, be in tune with their interior feelings, and be open to an exchange with the people and the world around them through color, texture, style, composition, and mixed media.

Professor Anya Gallaccio shortlisted to create London’s first HIV/Aids memorial


The new public art piece will “acknowledge an increasingly forgotten period in British history and the lessons we learnt from that time,” says Aids Memory UK, the charity behind the planned memorial.

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty The Treachery of Pleather

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

A two-person exhibition of both individual and collaborative works. While their studio work, in terms of both content and material, diverges in several ways, working together synthesized areas of convergence. In particular, themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Ruegos y Desiertos

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Ochoa brings the stuff of everyday life into the work, and through that summons both the unique spirit of the immigrant neighborhood and the heavy weight of history. Found-object combines and sculptural assemblages juxtapose the familiar and the fantastic – deserts and dreams – in works that incisively critique the mythos of the American west through the lens of the Chicanx experience. 

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 candidate Jamil Baldwin in 9 Lives

March 8 - April 12, 2024

BELLYMAN, Los Angeles CA

Charles Snowden, Chris Velez, David Roy and Otis Technology Research Collective, Emelia Gertner, Haniko Zahra, Jamil Baldwin, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Maren Karlson, Molly McDonald, Nehemiah Cisneros, PG Collective, Shani Strand, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Susan Arapricio, Tyler Christopher Brown. Curation by Salim Green and John Bogaard.

Professor Grant Kester & PhD student Wei Wu Field Journal #26


We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.

MFA alumni Dillon Chapman on Hazel Katz

Herein Journal

Hazel Katz is a filmmaker with a singular voice. Her body of work largely comprises well-researched, yet humorous and emotionally arresting, hybrid documentaries, which span topics from trans history and sex work (Sulka’s Daughters, 2022) to the impact of COVID 19 on the carceral system (Who Gets to Die, 2021).

Graduate Open Studios Online


In case you missed Open Studios on March 2nd, you can see online versions of the screening program, exhibitions, and artists' studios!

Lauren Lee McCarthy Bodily Autonomy

March 2 - May 25, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Katie Herzog Currents

January 12 - March 17, 2024

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA

"This body of work began when I moved to a rural ranch in Southern Monterey County, and simultaneously learned that my ancestors spoke Lekoudesch, also known as Jewish Cattle Traders Jargon. I am fascinated by Lekoudesch: a secret language of Hebrew origin developed by Jewish cattle traders who were not permitted to own land or participate in many facets of society due to being Jewish."

Professor Memo Akten Distributed Consciousness

January 25 - March 20, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Drawing upon the collaborative nature of knowledge building, the collective nature of intelligence, and the permeable boundaries between individuals, the show employs cephalopods and cephalopod cognition as a means of reflecting upon the “increasingly powerful and pervasive synthetic alien intelligences of artificial intelligence (AI).” The opening reception will be hosted by Professors Amy Alexander and Jordan Crandall.

Professor Memo Akten in SMALL V01CE

January 13 - March 23, 2024

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles CA

Honor Fraser Gallery presents "SMALL V01CE," curated by Jesse Damiani, exploring the intersection of human instinct, intuition, and artificial intelligence in creative processes. The exhibit examines how generative AI impacts human faculties like instinct and intuition, questioning whether these elements are essential for creativity and art. It invites leading artists to engage with these themes, offering a space for unconventional perspectives on how evolving technologies interact with innate human characteristics and the broader implications for the future of creativity and intelligence.

MFA alum Hung Liu Control and Freedom

January 11 - March 24, 2024

Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver CO

Hung Liu: Control and Freedom traces the creative trajectory of this celebrated artist following her emigration from Communist China and the repressive regime of Mao Zedong. Featuring paintings, prints, and tapestries produced over the last thirty years, this exhibition underscores the depths of Liu’s talent and demonstrates her incredible range as she perfectly captures the beauty and dignity of her subjects.

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