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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 26, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Mexicali Biennial, Whittier, CA
The second communal dinner event in the series PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is imagined by multi-media artist Isidro Perez Garcia and invites guests to dine on traditional foods and drinks from the Americas. This dinner series invites artists, creatives, chefs to craft food and drinks that translocate between distinctive settings in private residences and creative spaces across Southern and Baja Californias.
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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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Reception: July 29, 12:00 p.m.
July 29, 2025, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Presented by senior ICAM students, this exhibition showcases their capstone projects of a wide range of works–from interactive installations and games to sound, video, and experimental media. Each project merges art and technology to explore a variety of themes and unique perspectives developed over two quarters.
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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 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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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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December 15, 2024 - July 27, 2025
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The project debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organized into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation.
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June 27 — August 1, 2025
Sean Kelly, New York, NY
With her new exhibit, Sadie Barnette adopts the lexicon of the how-to guide to explore who has “it all” figured out, who doesn’t, and how far people will go to achieve power and impact. She extracts observations of societal functioning from public and private spheres, as well as the machinations of a society constantly in creative motion.
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