April 15 - April 19, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Reception: April 18, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Happy Moments Count brings in dialogues ranging from the fleeting nature of happiness to the fluidity of identity. Through the manipulation of color, form, and texture, I want to introduce nebulous realms of memory and emotion, inviting viewers to confront their own perceptions of reality.

April 18, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Doreen A. Ríos will be presenting her ongoing research on technological disobedience in Mexican media art as it relates to the current Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy exhibition at the Mandeville Art Gallery.

Reception: April 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

April 19 - April 26, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

ALL I CAN LEAVE YOU IS THIS GLITTER refers to more than just material possession but the impression of memories and ephemerality. The exhibition responds to the maximalist visuals of a family party, and its "glitter" or remnants of identity carried through migration while settling in new places.

Reception: April 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Performance: April 21, 4:00 p.m.

April 19 - April 26, daily 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Jun! offers a critical sustainable approach to difficult endurance performances that confront death by offering a space where death, pain, love, and intimacy can coexist. In doing so, Jun! reframes endurance as a practice of waiting for a better future, a future where we can wake to a body that we love.

April 20, 8:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club, UC San Diego

Navíl Martínez and Casey Toy are both Media majors nominated for the conference by Lecturer Dino Dinco. They will participate in Panel 18: Arts and Humanities: Gender during Morning Session 2, from 10:45 - 11:45 AM, in FC-Cnf 4-5.

April 20 - April 21, 2024

Price Center Theater, UC San Diego

Tickets are open for the 2024 UCSD Film Festival! Join us in celebrating UCSD's creative community April 20th and 21st. We will have 3 screenings of short films by UCSD students, a Q+A with an Emmy Award winning director, demos by Canon of their new cameras, and more! Tickets are free and open to the public.

April 22, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

YouTube Livestream

Saba Zavarei is a writer, researcher and artist, and the politics of body and space are at the core of her research and practice. Working across the media of text, performance and placemaking, she explores the ways in which bodies and performative interventions contribute to the production of space and the urban condition.

April 22, 6:00 - 7:20 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Francisco Eme is a music composer, multimedia artist, and gallery director who lives in San Diego. The Arts & Culture Director at Casa Familiar and Gallery Director at The FRONT Arte & Cultura, a trans-border art gallery in San Diego, US - Tijuana, MX, Francisco primarily works with sound in his practice, integrating other diverse disciplines as well.

April 22 - April 26 (click image for hours)

Reception: April 25, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

My exhibition dissects how ovarian cancer changed my mental, physical state, and gender identity through an abstract reality of nature. There are 4 phases in which my experience lives inside me; diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and healing. My work consists of multimedia pieces that attempt to unravel each phase, utilizing traditional and nontraditional mediums that reflect the emotion and causality of such thought.

April 24 & April 25, 2024

Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Austria

Who is Susan Mogul? Part of the answer to this question can be found in the pioneering video artworks she made in the early 1970s, which took the form of a performative autobiography staged before the camera. Susan Mogul is a decidedly witty feminist with an engaging and expressive laugh whose work focuses on the process of mediated self-questioning.

April 25, 12:00 p.m.

In-person & Facebook Live

Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK

A series of talks with artists featured in How to Survive as they consider their practice in relation to climate change and care. This month’s session features sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, who have collaborated artistically as Las Hermanas Iglesias since 2005 alongside their individual studio practices rooted in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

April 25, 2:30 p.m. PST

Register for Zoom Day 2 Here

Recent interdisciplinary scholarship has increasingly demonstrated the need to highlight the social heterogeneity of multiple Chinese diasporas instead of a singular Chinese diaspora.

April 25 - April 27, 2024

AAAS Conference, Seattle WA

As part of the panel "COLD WAR, HOT TAKES: UNFREEZING ASIAN SUBJECTS VENUE," Lim will present the talk at the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Lim examines the audiovisual, performative, and aesthetic dynamics from the “20th Seoul Queer Parade,” Korea’s one of the largest queer gatherings organized by the Seoul Queer Cultural Festival (SQCF) in 2019.

April 27, 1:15 p.m.

NFFTY, Seattle WA

The making of Smoke Signals was supported by a grant from the Russell Foundation. It will be screened in the 17th National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

April 27, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Hear from a panel of professionals working in the animation, film and video game industry, sharing insight on careers in these fields. Lead by UC San Diego alumnus and animator Marty Davis, panelists will discuss their work and career path, sharing insight, advice and answering questions from the audience.

April 29, 5:00 p.m.

Mosaic 113, UC San Diego

Nikki Johnson is a new media artist and software engineer from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from University of California San Diego with a Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Computing & The Arts. She is now working with Sphere Entertainment Co. as a Software Engineer building real-time tools and content for Sphere in Las Vegas.

April 9 - July 7, 2024

Getty Center, Los Angeles CA

The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist today. Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists.

April 12 - June 1, 2024

Document, Chicago IL

The exhibition serves as a site of exploration for Blue Studio, the artist’s newest body of work, shown here for the first time. While continuing his investigation of the studio as a place of portraiture and play, these photographs represent a departure from Sepuya’s recent series Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio (2021-2023).

April 5 - May 5, 2024

Public Works Administration, New York NY

You Are: Mother, Player is a solo exhibition centered around Angela Washko's 2020 Creative Capital project, Mother, Player, an experimental narrative video game featuring pregnancy and early parenthood stories from the artist (made during the global pandemic).

March 29 - April 19, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

The artists in this exhibition address cycles of violence and loss. From the most abstract to the figurative, the material or psychological, they provide embodied perspectives across experiments with material and form.

March 16 - April 20, 2024

Oolong Gallery + Brown Studio, Encinitas CA

The Brown Studio includes a gallery and a garden which will be transformed into an exhibition and art party site from 5-9pm on Saturday, March 16. The Oolong warehouse will host a large scale salon style main exhibition (opening from 12-4pm) for the duration of the joint shows through April 20.

March 30 - April 28, 2024

PULP Gallery, Holyoke MA

As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities.

February 1 - April 30, 2024

(re)FOCUS 2024, Philadelphia PA

The Artfront Partnership, a public art project under the aegis of Philadelphia Sculptors, has commissioned artists with a feminist perspective to transform vacant, dark storefronts into illuminated art spaces. Virginia Maksymowicz’s window considers the resilience and strength of the female figure in architecture by using the imagery of caryatids, who appear effortless in their supportive roles.