Gathering: January 18, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

VAF Main Gallery, UC San Diego

Because I came looking for You is an act of remembrance, an attempt to materialize bodies lost throughout history, a process of reconciliation. Participants are invited to consider how their bodies are connected to each other, as well as to the past and a potential future.

January 19, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Bread & Salt, San Diego CA

As part of Project [Blank]'s SALTY SERIES, Material Intimacies is a one night performance art gathering that invites viewers to contemplate the ephemeral edges between the self and the collective body curated by Jun!Yi Min. Performance artists JAX, Jun!, Hamsa Fae, and erika will offer durational and staged works as portals of liminality, disruption, and soft ferocity. 

Reception: January 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 13 - February 17, 2024

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

De Luca’s painting practice, informed by the unique qualities of her surroundings and place, studies the psychological and emotional impact of light and landscape. The works in Capricorn Rising were created over the past year, begun during a period as artist-in-residence at the Monira Foundation in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Reception: January 20, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 22 - January 31, 2024

CSULB Galleries, Long Beach CA

The 19th Annual Greater Los Angeles Juried MFA Exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday 1/20 from 4-7pm and run 1/22- 1/31 m-f noon- 5pm. Free and open to the public.

Reception: January 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 20 - February 25, 2024

Two Rooms, La Jolla CA

Two Rooms is an artist-run gallery and project space, founded in 2023 by Lizzie Zelter. Adjacent to her studio in San Diego, CA, Two Rooms was born out of a desire for informal and experimental artistic exploration and community in the San Diego/Tijuana bi-national region.

January 24, 7:30 p.m.

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA

In this cosmic opera by artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, a starship crew seeks refuge on the hostile planet 85K: Aurora. As the planet defends itself from the crew’s invasive presence, the humans evolve to become a part of a queerly multi-species organism that covers the entire world.

Reception: January 25, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

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.

Reception: January 26, 6:30 - 11:00 p.m.

January 27 - May 5, 2024

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK

The exhibition will be the first institutional presentation of Sepuya’s work in the UK, bringing together more than 40 works across almost 400 square metres of gallery space. Sepuya is best known for his intimate studio portraits that explore the relationships between camera, subject and viewer. Sepuya will give an artist lecture on January 27 at 3:00 p.m.

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.

December 8, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Webber Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Taking in mind the cities vast cultural field, Staring Into The Sun examines the intergenerational view points of the photographers. Each photographer with their own singular perspective that is in some way shaped by the nuances of the city and its ever-evolving narratives.

January 11 - February 3, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Spanning photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the works in the exhibition reimagine communal archives and ancestral histories, contest colonial narratives of progress and discovery, and portray the body as defiantly present, undergoing constant movement and transformation.

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."

January 6 - January 27, 2024

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA

The exhibition Moved\Displaced features work addressing the themes of migration and displacement from a wide variety of perspectives. The show includes 28 artists working in an array of artistic mediums and methods. These artists are predominately based in Southern California and create their work with influences from a divers set of backgrounds.

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

August 27, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl Germany

Artists from 19 countries address the urgent questions of the 21st century in interactive video works, virtual and augmented reality experiences, multimedia installations and digital image worlds, with a view to the impact of globalisation, digitalisation and the climate crisis.

September 28, 2023 - January 28, 2024

The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX

This Land is a group exhibition about landscape: how it records the social and environmental effects of colonialism and capitalism. With Greater Austin ranking among the fastest growing and most expensive metropolitan areas in the U.S., This Land offers a space to reflect upon these transformations and broader histories of place, migration, and extraction.

October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Geisel Library, UC San Diego

This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.