COMING UP

Tanya Aguiñiga Open Studio: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence

November 1, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.


VAF Main Gallery, UC San Diego

Tanya Aguiñiga is the 2024 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

New MFA Student Lightning Talks

November 1, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

Learn about the work of artists new to the Visual Arts MFA program: Nube Cruz, James M Dailey, Xelestial Moreno-Luz, Ryan Oh, Kamryn Olds, Emily Polanco, Michelle Sui, and Zachary Thompson.

MFA alum Suzanne Wright exhibition The Alchemy of Equals

Reception: October 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 30 - December 8, 2024  

Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn NY

Through this new body of work, Wright continues to explore feminism reimagining historical, architectural, and spiritual symbols, calling for transformative perspectives on gender, power, and the alchemical potential within art.

BA alum Farshid Bazmandegan exhibition Drifting in Between

Reception: November 2, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

November 2 - December 21, 2024

Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Bazmandegan explores the intersection of space, memory, and the material world to examine the complexities of exile and displacement. Through installation, sculpture, and painting, he evokes the profound sense of loss, absence, and trauma that often accompanies the body and mind of an exile.

MFA student Emily Greenberg screening On Exactitude in Science

November 7, 11:30 a.m. local

Neos Fest, Monterrey MX

NEOSFest is a festival that brings together short films made by students from all over the world. The aim is to build a meeting space for ethical, aesthetic, social and political concerns expressed by young people from different cultural backgrounds through an exploration that prioritizes formal experimentation with video resources rather than traditional hegemonic narrative.

PhD student Hande Sever photo essay In Search of "My Beloved Pauline"

Vera List Center Forum Publication

Over three days, the VLC Forum 2024 explored the ways in which history and historiography invariably function as acts of correction and revision while examining some of the ideological mechanisms that drive them. The VLC Forum 2024 is accompanied by a new publication with a commissioned photo essay by Hande Sever. 

MFA alum Nathan Storey announced as Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow

Queer|Art

Now in its 14th year, the celebrated year-long creative and professional development supports both remote and in-person participation between emerging and established LGBTQ+ artists from across the country. Over the past decade, a vibrant intergenerational community of over 190 LGBTQ+ artists has emerged, and a legacy of creative resilience has been carried forward.

MFA student Sophia Cleary performance Read the Room

November 14 - November 16, 2024

REDCAT, Los Angeles CA

Sophia Cleary announced as a featured artist in REDCAT's 21st annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival! A celebration of #LA's vibrant community of artists creating new performance work, #NOW2024 will take place over three weekends this Fall from Nov. 7-23. Each weekend features three works in a shared evening, with Sophia’s work, READ THE ROOM, premiering during week 2.

UG student James DeLisio screening Smoke Signals

November 17, 5:00 p.m.

Digital Gym, San Diego CA

UG James DeLisio’s short documentary “Smoke Signals,” which was supported by the Russell Grant from the Visual Arts Department, will be screening at the Digital Gym Cinema as part of San Diego Film Week on November 17th, at 5:00pm.

MFA alumni Arlene Mejorado, Carrie Mae Weems in Diaries of Home

November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth TX

Diaries of Home is an exhibition of works by twelve women and nonbinary artists who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.The artists challenge documentary photography by pushing it into conceptual, performative, and theatrical realms. They probe preconceptions about domestic, familial, and communal spaces in the United States, which are often considered feminine spheres.

Professors Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade screening and talk for Star Choir

November 18, 7:00 p.m. local

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

MoMA Modern Mondays presents the New York premiere of Star Choir, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade’s film based on their cosmic opera about a starship crew of humans seeking refuge on a hostile planet named 85K: Aurora. The screening will be followed by conversation between composer Malik Gaines, librettist and director Alexandro Segade, and Thomas Lax, curator in the Department of Media and Performance.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems awarded National Medal of Arts

Artists Carrie Mae Weems is among 20 artists who received the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts at the White House on October 21. Considered the most prestigious award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States federal government, the medals were formally presented by President Joseph Biden in a private ceremony.

Professor Grant Kester, PhD students Paloma Checa-Gismero & Hande Sever Field Journal #28

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.

Professor Michael Trigilio in online exhibition GUI/GOOEY

October 19 - December 19, 2024

Plexus Projects Online, Brooklyn NY

Plexus Projects presents a series of online exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. GUI/GOOEY features artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools.

UG student Blake Riesenfeld Dilettante

October 25 - November 1, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Exploration of constructed space through photography and installation mediums.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Lecturer Trish Stone, Speculative Design class in exhibition curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD student Clarissa Chevalier Embodied Pacific: Seaways

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

Professors Amy Adler, PhD student Johnnie Chatman in exhibition Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, BA alum Kimberly Heard in Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier curated Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

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.

CLOSING SOON

Lecturer Dino Dinco in Art & Sport

May 1 - November 1, 2024

Boulodrome du Douaisis, Sin-le-Noble France

Art & Sport are 13 exhibitions and aesthetic experiences, across 13 regions of France and in unexpected places! Drawing on the collections of the 22 Regional Contemporary Art Funds of France , Art & Sport presents varied works ranging from video to sculpture, in unusual and sporting locations such as stadiums, swimming pools or skate parks.

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