December 2 - December 7, 2025

Convention Center, San Diego, CA

NeurIPS is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. Along with ICLR and ICML, it is one of the three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research.

Reception: December 4, 6:30 - 8:20 p.m.


December 3, 10:00 - 3:00 p.m.


December 4, 10:00 - 6:00 p.m.


Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Annual Exhibition of VIS 80: Introduction to Studio Art. A practical introduction to the studio art major and a conceptual introduction to how diverse strategies of art making are produced, analyzed, and critiqued. Introduces historical and contemporary topics in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance art and field-based practices.

December 2 - December 5, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Confluence showcases new works by students in VIS 108: Advanced Projects in Art at UC San Diego, a course built around sustained inquiry, experimentation, and reflection. Over the quarter, students developed projects through iterative research processes that included diagramming, drawing-based mapping, working with personal and public archives, and engaging with peers and visiting artists.

December 5, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA

¡David Avalos, Presente! is a celebration of the life and legacy of the late artist David Avalos. Currently on view at the AD&A Museum is Welcome to America’s Finest Tourist Plantation (1988), a first of many collaborative projects by the artists Elizabeth Sisco, [Professor Emeritus] Louis Hock, and David Avalos. Join us on Friday, December 5 at 1pm to pay honor to Avalos and his impact on the Chicano Art Movement in California.  

December 6, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

ONE Archives @ USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA

Ken Gonzales-Day and Paul Mpagi Sepuya are Los Angeles based artists who are renowned for addressing queer desire and queer histories in their work. This fall, both artists have solo exhibitions in Los Angeles. To mark the occasion, please join Gonzales-Day and Sepuya, with moderator Amelia Jones.

December 7, 2025

MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES is taking place for the fourth time and has established itself in Vienna as an important forum for feminist film culture. The festival, organized by dieRegisseur*innen, brings together international and local perspectives and creates spaces for critical engagement with socially and politically relevant topics. This year's edition is dedicated to Disability Studies, Crip Culture, and inclusive film practice.

Reception: December 8, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.


SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This course develops designs and strategies that engage shifting public domain structures and their various spatial and systematic manifestations. The problematic of “the public” and the politics of public sphere are situated as sites of investigation through which we imagine new interfaces between individuals, collectives, and institutions with the aim of coproducing more critical and inclusive forms of public space and culture.

December 9, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME 102, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Come enjoy mechatronic works of art, interactable, wearable, moving, ether- art. This class designs programmable microcontroller systems for creating artworks that are able to respond to complex sets of input conditions, perform algorithmic and procedural processing, and generate real time output. Instructed by MFA alum Jonathon Paden.

December 11, 12:30 p.m.

103B Mandeville Center, UC San Diego

Join us for a screening of stop motion animations created by students of the Intermediate Projects in Media class instructed by MFA alum Sam Wohl.

December 14, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla, CA

According to Vasquez, "25 Palm Trees in Paradise is a book that is not a book about a tree that is not a tree.” Its pages offer the viewer a survey of Vásquez’s “burning palm tree” paintings, created over the last ten years, that explore the palm’s many moods and manifestations.

December 14, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

LA Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for an afternoon of hands-on zine making facilitated by artist and photographer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and arts programmer, curator, and veteran producer and avid collector of zines, Darin Klein. The workshop is designed to be a non-hierarchical and non-competitive platform for the exchange of creative ideas.

October 1 - December 6, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Omni Intelligent is a group exhibition that explores the intertwined and interdependent relationships between non-human and human entities as artificial intelligence becomes an integrated part of contemporary life. Spanning a wide range of mediums the exhibition offers the visitor a full sensory experience that speaks to the profound shifts unfolding during this pivotal moment. 

September 19, 2025 - December 14, 2025

The Nest, UC San Diego Library 

Here, Now 여기, 지금 highlights publications on the Korean War from historical and artistic perspectives, as well as unique materials related to the Korean War and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The exhibition features special collections from the University of Southern California (USC)’s Korean Heritage Library, the University of Michigan (U-M)’s Asia Library, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. 

September 25 - December 5, 2025

University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA

In Reencuentros: allá nos vemos/See you there, seven contemporary lens-based artists encounter time, home, (dis)placement, movement, stasis and becoming against the backdrop of the permeable US-Mexico border.