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MFA cohort Fundraiser & Raffle


The 2023 MFA cohort is looking for financial support in order to pay fees necessary to produce, organize, install, curate, and publicize a group show showcasing their work and collective conversations. To help reach their goal, 11 artists, including 9 members of the 2023 cohort and two UCSD faculty members, have donated small artworks as part of the raffle adjacent to the fundraiser! The raffle ends July 28th and tickets are priced: $25 for 1 ticket, $50 for 3 tickets, $100 for 10 tickets. In order to participate in the raffle you must either include your name and email address with your donation or contact mika Castañeda m1castan@ucsd.edu


MFA alum Guillermo Estrada, Rancho Shampoo performance

July 20, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla CA

MCASD's ongoing partnership with Space Time responds to works on display, presenting rare artist videos and live performances. July’s collaboration responds to Celia Àlvarez Muñoz, featuring video work by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and a performance by Rancho Shampoo & the Indian Dub Orchestra (Guillermo Estrada, Rubén Alonso Tamayo, Rodo Ibarra, Julián González, David Bautista Toledo).

Assoc. Professor Brian Cross The West is Awake and conversation

Conversation: July 22, 5:00 p.m.

July 18 - July 29, 2023

Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland

This exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of hip hop and features a number of his photographs installed outdoors at Galway City Museum. Brian Cross will be in conversation with RTÉ DJ Ray ‘Wingnut’ Cuddihy to discuss his life and work on July 22nd.

Professor Amy Alexander in Attention! Please Scan!

Reception: July 23, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

July 23 - 31, 2023

Sojourner Gallery, New York NY

Viewers are prompted to scan the QR codes with their mobile devices, which then reveal the digital representation of the artwork. This shift from physical presence to digital representation subverts the traditional gallery experience by incorporating a layer of virtual and interactive engagement. This exhibition aspires to propel the art space into fulfilling its utmost social role, serving as a catalyst for critical discourse and thought-provoking dialogue.

Professor Anya Gallaccio CaliBaja Seminar

July 25, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

For the summer science and art seminar series, Anya Gallaccio presents "Meaning as material." This will be followed by a talk from Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, "Renewable energy integration: open challenges and opportunities."

MFA graduating cohort presents Sites of Blood and Water

Reception: July 29, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

July 29 - August 12, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Sites of Blood and Water, curated by beck haberstroh and Naomi Nadreau, will include artwork by Amir Saadiq, Arlene Mejorado, Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Jack Coventry, Lorena Ochoa, DIA PHANO Collective (Claire Anderson, Maria Mathioudakis and Grace Wardlaw), mika castañeda, Sabrina Piersol, and Wren Gardiner. The artists gathered in this exhibition engage in the hard work of negotiating belonging - to a nation, to a time, to a family, and to each other.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca and Lizelle Lopez Aguilar present 4th Annual Auction for Migrant Families


July 15 - July 30, 2023

Online Auction Site

Artists in Solidarity is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that stands with and supports migrant families and children who all deserve their chance to safely begin their American story and to be treated as human beings. The immigrant’s plight in the US remains untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process.


MFA alum Wren Gardiner in HereIn Journal


Simultaneously hilarious and unsettling, Wren Gardiner’s practice probes the relationship between the analog and virtual worlds. Their recent MFA thesis exhibition, By the Sweat of My Browser, featured three television monitors, each playing videos of Gardiner talking a mile a minute about health insurance, boobs, and their affection for the television show The Big Bang Theory.

MFA alumni Trevor Amery, Taylor Chapin, Ruth Wallen in Good Natured

May 13 - July 30, 2023

Central Public Library, San Diego CA

At a time when vast amounts of scientific data are sounding the alarms of our current poly-crisis, our collective experiences implore us to reconsider our environmental impact and the need for reciprocity. Good Natured challenges us to act in this contingent world and ponders the question what it is to be both the problem and the solution.

MFA candidate Amir Saadiq and MFA alumni Dillon Chapman & Maria Mathioudakis in 31st Juried Exhibition

July 15 - September 9, 2023

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Nearly 300 artists entered 900 works for consideration. Juror Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, selected the final 25 artists and 35 works to exhibit. Prizewinners will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, July 14.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in Adorned Self

Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles CA

The six emerging women artists grew up in the 1990s, an epoch characterized by multiculturalism, globalization, self-reference, environmentalism, and technological advances. 𝓐𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 explores ornamentation as an act, both outward and internal, that opens the self to enlivenment; how we fashion ourselves in order to attract others, make a statement, or express individuality.

MFA alum Işık Kaya in Into the Uncanny Valley

July 14 - August 26, 2023

Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Into the Uncanny Valley features four artists who came of age during the digital revolution and whose work responds to novel and often fabricated realities. As augmented realities and deep fakes become increasingly advanced and prevalent, they are beginning to challenge social order and established hierarchies, while also destabilizing our own internal judgment.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa and MFA candidate Deanna Barahona in Ahorita!

July 8 - September 2, 2023

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The artists make work that calls attention to many of the foremost issues facing our communities, be they issues that manifest in the lived environment, issues of historical or contemporary cultural representation, or interior-focused issues. Ahorita! is both a call to resilience and a celebration of this ascendant artistic moment which is being defined by impactful women and non-binary artists.

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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