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Celebrate the Arts

September 25, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Epstein Family Amphitheater, UC San Diego

Stop by the Epstein Family Amphitheater to learn all about arts on campus. Talk to representatives from campus arts departments, academic departments, and student organizations and learn how you can be involved in the arts at UC San Diego.

MFA student Jamil G. Baldwin, MFA alum Aldo Cervantes in Reencuentros: allá nos vemos/See you there

Reception: September 25, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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.

MFA student Emily Polanco, MFA alumni Coralys Carter, Zara Kuredjian in A Really Good Sculpture Show, curated by MFA alumni mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn

September 27, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Other Places art fair, San Pedro, CA

Fluid in definition, bonded by an intention to operate in other places outside the traditional art gallery systems, OPaf features participants presenting site-specific booths encapsulating their projects and programming. OPaf provides an alternative art fair structure designed specifically for these unconventional projects.

BA alum Liz Stringer in Mostly Thorns, copresented by MFA alum Zebulon Zang

Receptions: September 27-28, October 4-5; 11am - 6pm

September 15 - October 5, 2025

UCI Nature Burns Piñion Ridge Reserve, Yucca Valley, CA

Mostly Thorns is an exhibition loosely assembled under the ‘The Rose, Bud, Thorn’ framework—an exercise reflecting on three aspects of an experience: a Rose (a highlight, success, or positive moment), a Bud (a potential for growth, or something to look forward to), and a Thorn (a challenge, disappointment, or area needing improvement).

Omni Intelligent

Reception: October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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. 

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in (Re)Constructing History

October 4, 2025 - May 3, 2026

SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA

(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present. Borrowing its title from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s featured series, Constructing History, this installation invites audiences to imagine the layers of history we encounter through a seemingly fixed image.

UG student Meltem Buyuran exhibition Babushkas & Backgammon

Reception: October 6, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

October 6 - October 16, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Inspired by my roots in the Caucasus, as well as my fascination with human emotion, most of my paintings reflect the cultural scenes and spirited individuals I’ve encountered on my travels through Azerbaijani towns and villages.

Professor Jessica D’Elena-Tweed designed book trilogy by Robert Booras

University of Arkansas Press

Known colloquially as “The Adonis Saga,” this trilogy by author Robert Booras and conceptualized, designed, and art directed by Assistant Professor Jessica D’Elena-Tweed, manipulates sonic visualization techniques to produce graphical illustrations generated by the musical compositions that provide the book's structure. The contents are a variety of species, including scenes, poetry, and interludes that adopt “words in freedom” typographic arrangements. Green of Each Window, Crystalline Green, Afterwards

MFA students Nube Cruz, Jamil Baldwin, MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, Moe Penders Ramos, Arlene Mejorado, BA alum Aldo Cervantes in Concrete Hope

September 23, 2025 - May 9, 2026

Reception: October 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, CA

Concrete Hope foregrounds the multiplicity of Brown identity in Southern California as a mode of cultural self-affirmation. Bringing together thirty-eight emergent photographers and lens-based artists, the exhibition examines how media based photography, articulates the layered narratives and lived experiences of this complex community.

MFA student Jamil G. Baldwin's Locally Grown TV collaborates with Salim Green

September 20 - October 25, 2025

Locally Grown TV, Online Broadcast

LGtv will be broadcasting in collaboration with Salim Green, as part of Green's "Taileater" exhibition at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles. LGtv is a grassroots and pirate digital broadcasting network by and for the people. Wired magazine has called it "PBS for the Streaming Age."

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

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.

A Sea of Little Fires

August 28 - December 1, 2025

Arts & Humanities Bldg. 1st floor, UC San Diego

Inspired by Eduardo Galleano’s poetry, this year's PATH Art Exhibit is inspired by his poem The World that describes: “The world is that—he revealed—A cluster of people, a sea of little fires. Each person shines with their own light among all others. No two fires are alike.” A Sea of Little Fires is the theme for this year’s exhibit. Join us for an exhibit that celebrates the different ways in which people shine in this world and bring light to the world.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim curated exhibit Here, Now 여기, 지금

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. 

Professors Memo Akten, Robert Twomey, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

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.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Maddie Butler & PhD student Jeffrey Stuker in Painting All Together

August 16 - September 27, 2025

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The group exhibition extends the ongoing dialogue of Painting as Is—a conversation grounded in the belief that painting remains a vital, self-reflexive medium for negotiating material, image, and subjectivity. This fourth installment unfolds across five conceptual threads: inscription, object-hood, recollection, event, and projection.

PhD student Hande Sever in Tea and Dry Biscuits. An Anniversary Exhibition

April 17 - September 28, 2025

Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

The exhibition focuses on the staging of memories and examines remembrance in its various forms – private and public. Contemporary artists open up diverse perspectives on the past and present through their own reflections on the subject.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in Star Witnesses

June 27 - September 28, 2025

The Polygon, North Vancouver, Canada

Star Witnesses assembles works by a constellation of artists whose insightful observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth. The artists involved deftly combine found and newly produced images showing planets, moons, constellations in distant galaxies, and the Sun to address earthly concerns.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in To Improvise a Mountain

May 16 - October 5, 2025

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds UK

The exhibition's curatorial spirit stems from a fragment of poetry within Miles Davis’s ‘Inamorata’ (1971), which asks: ‘Who is this music that which description may never justify? / Can the ocean be described?’. For Yiadom-Boakye, poetry’s ability to translate the intangible into images the mind can hold, and to think through rhythm and feeling, is similar to the act of painting.

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