February 17 - February 21, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Lanterns are inanimate objects yet can tell their own story from how it is made and its design. In my Chinese and Vietnamese culture they are a symbol of unity and guidance to people because of their functional and traditional purposes. There is a unique story told behind every person, a story to tell and shine similarly to lanterns.

February 19, 2025

SWPACA Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The mission of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) is to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in the humanities and social sciences celebrating America’s cultural heritages, and to increase awareness and improve public perceptions of America’s cultural traditions and diverse populations.

Reception: February 20, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 18 - February 21, by appointment

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Sophia Cleary presents a series of charcoal and graphite drawings of two de-commissioned medical exam tables. Cleary employs the protocols of a figure drawing class, but instead of a model and artists rendering a figure, all roles are re-cast in this counter-examination of absence, remnant, and perversion.

February 20 - February 23, 2025

Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles, CA

Danielle Dean will be showing works with Commonwealth and Council at Frieze LA. Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality.

February 20 - March 15, 2025

Union Hall Art Space, Denver, CO

Curated by Nathan Storey the exhibition features six interdisciplinary artists reckoning with queer histories, pasts, archives, legacies, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices. The artists search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories.

Reception: February 24, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 25 - February 28, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

“Pattern of Being” highlights Sheeva’s experimentation of layering feminine floral motifs juxtaposing ideas of racial prejudice between the Middle East and the United States and of feeling distanced from her family across the world. 

February 24 - February 25, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Experimental Theatre, CPMC, UC San Diego

_.noocambriidæ._ is a collaborative audiovisual work from Music PhD student ess whiteley and Andrew Wharton. Through 3D animation and 8-channel spatialized interactive sound, _.noocambriidæ_. acts as a nooscope into this realm of more-than-human behaviours and transmutations.

February 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.

March 1, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Facility and SME Gallery, UC San Diego

This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 25 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.

Reception: March 1, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

March 3, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

This curator's talk focuses on Walker's forthcoming MONUMENTS exhibition at The Brick, which reflects on the histories and legacies of post-Civil War America as they continue to resonate today by bringing together a selection of decommissioned Confederate statues with contemporary artworks borrowed and commissioned for the occasion.

January 17 - April 13, 2025

Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Washington DC

Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, curated by Georgetown University Art and Curatorial Studies graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Dorothy Moss, presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children’s books and primers (known as xiaorenshu).

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.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

LOS/NR, La Jolla, CA

A group show for the new year about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche - a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one's choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

two rooms, La Jolla, CA

Two Rooms is proud to present Backtrack, a two-person exhibition featuring Maddie Butler and Enrique Ciapara. Through assemblage and painting, Butler and Ciapara mediate images of everyday experiences into forms that reveal the imperfections of the hand.

January 10 - March 1, 2025

Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.

January 27 - March 02, 2025

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

This multidisciplinary exhibition explores the intersection of art, ecology, and technology, reflecting on the site’s layered history and envisioning its future. From playful interventions and dystopian meditations to utopian visions of renewal, the works on display invite visitors to confront critical environmental questions.

October 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025

ICA, Los Angeles CA

Scientia Sexualis is an ambitious group survey of contemporary artists whose work confronts, dissolves, and reimagines sex and gender within the scientific apparatus. Organized by Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, UC Riverside) and Jeanne Vaccaro (Professor of Transgender Studies and Museum Studies, U of Kansas), the exhibition is part of PST ART, led by the Getty, and will be accompanied by a major scholarly publication.

September 22, 2024 - March 2, 2025

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Often LGBTQ people have forged circles of friendship and alternative families as they navigate their identity, need for authentic self expression, and frequently hostile environment. Drawing on artworks in the SBMA collection and loans from artists, this exhibition explores art about LGTBQ friendship, companionship, solidarity, and desire.