COMING UP

MFA alum Amir Saadiq screening Just Beyond

August 15, 2024

Olympia, New York NY

Just Beyond locates itself within the haunting historical landscape of the American south amongst literal and figurative structures of violence. Through jarring, ephemeral and viscerally evocative moving images, cinematic pauses of entrance and exiting highlight the plight of an onerous escape muddled in timeless brutality.

Professor Pinar Yoldas keynote talk Art is Evolutionary

August 22, 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Mutek Forum, Montreal Canada

This exposé delves into the neuroscience of art, highlighting the crucial role of sensation, perception, and memory, as Dr. Yoldas approaches art's evolutionary and neurological foundations, emphasizing immersion as a key element in modern storytelling and digital technologies.

PhD alum Paloma Checa-Gismero Biennial Boom Book Launch

August 22, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke University Press) with a cocktail reception followed by a conversation between its author, Paloma Checa-Gismero (Swarthmore College), and Zoë Ryan, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn. Purchases of the book via dukeupress.edu get 30% off with code E24CHGSM

Adrian-Dre Diaz writing on MFA alum JAX

HereIn Journal

Positioned as a reclamation of self and history, JAX’s artistic practice transforms hair—an often-overlooked aspect of cultural expression—into a dynamic medium that celebrates the rich, textured lineage of Blackness. Her installations, which cascade from the walls and ceilings in intricate webs of human and synthetic hair, weave together a tapestry of memory, identity, and continuity.

MFA alum beck haberstroh in Tend

August 8 - September 21, 2024

Parent Company, New York NY

The group exhibition entitled Tend, features works by Nora Chellew, beck haberstroh, Carly Mandel, Sara Murphy, Funto Omojola, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The exhibition is about care, or the lack of care, shown towards our bodies. It is about the love and violence that is inflicted on our bodies and about the time spent enacting care and bodily labor.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold, MFA alum Lorna Simpson in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

July 12, 2024 - April 20, 2025

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Through portraiture and biography, the one-room exhibition will explore Baldwin’s legacy alongside his contemporaries in art, music, film, literature and activism. “On the centennial of Baldwin’s birth, it is important to look at this prolific thinker and writer, not only for his visionary insights but his influence that still resonates,” Combs said.

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

CLOSING SOON

Professors Ricardo Dominguez & Brett Stalbaum's Electronic Disturbance Theater, UG alum Diana Benavídez in Border Blasters

July 12 – August 17, 2024

Bonita Museum, Bonita CA

Border Blasters is an exhibition and programming exploring the impact of TJ/SD radio/television/music in the region. The exhibition, curated by [undergraduate alum] Diana Benavídez, Bill Perrine and Itza Vilaboy, presents creatives utilizing sound and visuals to transcend the physical border.

UG student Jaime Leynes in A Practical Guide to Modest Magic

June 1 - August 17, 2024

California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA

The exhibition takes the art assignment as its point of departure, with written instructions that ask college and university student participants to respond to find magic in the everyday. Each assignment serves as a catalyst for artistic exploration and seeks to build empathy through collectively recognizing and appreciating the magic inherent in our everyday lives and practices.

Professor Teddy Cruz in In the Shadow of the Wall

June 7 - August 18, 2024

Kimball Art Center, Park City UT

Through site-specific, object-oriented, and community-engaged works, the artists in this group exhibition challenge stark divisions between people and nations, embracing the creativity capacity of multiple belongings. Upcoming Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga, is also included in the exhibition.

MFA alumni Tigercrow Collective exhibition and Elsewhere

July 13 - August 23, 2024 (Extended!)

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Tigercrow Collective includes MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and Naomi Nadreau. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. Best Practice is co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty.

MFA alum Susan Mogul in Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles

June 29 - August 24, 2024 (Extended!)

as-is.la, Los Angeles CA

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

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