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Reception: July 19, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
July 19 - August 30, 2025
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A group exhibition curated by Los Angeles artist, curator, and gallery director Ever Velasquez. America (Soy Yo!) brings together artists from across the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Canada who collectively interrogate ideas of forced migration, land ownership, and the man-made borders that separate us.
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Reception: July 25, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
July 26 - October 18, 2025
Athenaeum Arts & Music Library, La Jolla, CA
One of the most prestigious juried shows in San Diego, selected artists exhibit their work in the galleries, receive excellent exposure, and mingle with both artists and art lovers at an opening reception. Juror Malcolm Warner, art historian and curator, selected the final 29 artists to exhibit.
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Reception: July 26, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
July 26 - August 16, 2025
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Curated by Moshonda Tifrere as an exploration of dimensionality, the exhibition weaves together a combination of narrative and abstract paintings and ceramic sculpture that can be seen as expressive portals to intangible realms and metaphysical landscapes. The show features six artists: Taylor Chapin, Megan Gabrielle, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Victor Ubah, Elizabeth Waggett, and Nathan Wong.
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July 27, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Morley Field, San Diego, CA
Between the Trees II: Like a Blister in the Sun is curated by Harvest & Gather, an independent curatorial project by MFA alumni Cat Gunn & mika Castañeda. At the core of these exhibitions is a simple gesture, paintings in a park. Embracing the picnic as a vital system of care, rest, and rejuvenation, Between the Trees invites artists to share space, shade, and their work under the open sky.
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Imagined Theatres
Writing for a theoretical stage, this site collects hypothetical performances written by an ever-growing array of theorists and artists of the contemporary art and stage. Imagined Theatres is co-edited by Professor Ricardo Dominguez.
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Secaucus
Adorno—The audience's laughter isn't revolutionary but full of the worst bourgeois sadism...the goal of the revolution is the abolition of fear Andrew—If we didn't live in an oppressive society that forced us to internalize our fear, we wouldn't need the outlets of the movies to blow off steam Nilo—We're our own little steam engines.
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July 9 - August 15, 2025
47 Canal, New York, NY
Our inaugural Summer Screening Program features eight artist selected moving image works that will be on view every day during gallery hours for the run of the exhibition. Martin Beck, Danielle Dean, Elle Pérez, and Cici Wu have each invited another guest artist to contribute work to the program alongside their own.
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June 6 - August 31, 2025
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Barahona’s art is full of bright colors, glitter, photos, ceramic tile, and cartoons. She draws inspiration from family parties, the decorations in her childhood home, and everyday objects like Valentine’s stickers or leftover balloons. New works made for this exhibition include images from important rites of passage and cultural events.
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Journal of Korean and Asian Arts
In the paper "The Temporality of Sewol Mothers: Collective Theater Against the Longue Durée of Neoliberal Atrocities," Lim examines the 4.16 Family Theater Troupe Yellow Ribbon's theater project, The Talent Show (Changgijarang, 2019). The paper highlights the temporalities embodied by this marginalized community in relation to the tragedy of the Sewol ferry, which sank in 2014, resulting in 304 casualties, including 250 high school students from Lim's hometown.
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Visions By, Issue 7
Acknowledging the variety of digital materialities also means revealing the hidden aspects of their production. It invites us to break free from the misleading metaphors that have led us to believe the supposed softness of digital objects leaves no room for direct consequences that affect our bodies and those of others. In reality, the situation is quite different.
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July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.
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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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July 12 - July 17, 2025
Quint ONE, San Diego, CA
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a one-week-only exhibition of a new painting by Jean Lowe at ONE in Logan Heights. An opening reception will coincide with DOWN WITH THE HIERARCHY!, Lowe’s collaborative exhibition with Abraham Razo (Rancholo) and Kim MacConnel at Best Practice. Both exhibitions open on Saturday at 1955 Julian Avenue inside the Bread & Salt building.
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April 26 - July 19, 2025
Athenaeum Arts & Music Library, La Jolla, CA
The exhibition facilitates collaboration between artists who might have once worked together, but the stars did not align in their favor or their spirits could not quite connect. Harvest & Gather is an experimental, nomadic curatorial project founded by MFA alumni mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn in 2023.
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May 10 - July 19, 2025
Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Tellings explores the body as a shifting, evolving terrain—an amalgamation of matter and consciousness. Using ceramic, steel, and copper foil, Stringer constructs abstract, theatrical vignettes that imagine bodily transformations at the fantastical intersection of science fiction and biopolitics.
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May 10 - July 19, 2025
Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
Lyndsay Bloom is a filmmaker and artist working in experimental cinema and film installation. Bloom’s process involves putting media archeology into practice, investigating physical properties of celluloid film, and considering intersections between film processing techniques and digital technologies.
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June 11 - July 19, 2025
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a group of three paintings by Patricia Patterson at 7655 Girard Avenue. Created between 1988 and 1990, they depict imagery from everyday life on Ireland's Aran Islands.
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May 24 - July 20, 2025
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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June 22 – July 25, 2025
ICA Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Developed over several years, this project traces Garnett’s engagement with the archive of her great-great-aunt Ruth Lynda Deyo—a composer who lived in Egypt from 1924 until her death in 1960. While in Cairo, Deyo transcribed spirit communications and composed an ambitious opera about Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, which remained unfinished and unproduced.
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May 31 - July 26, 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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