March 1, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

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, 2024

Via Zoom

Association for Asian Studies, Seattle WA

Jae Hwan Lim presents a panel entitled "Why Fetishize Social Practice" as part of the session "Art, Social Engagement, and Activism in South Korea."

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

Visual Arts Facility & 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 20 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 2, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 2 - May 25, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.

March 5, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

This talk will address photographer John Thomson's (1837-1921) reproductions and imitations of the fanciful and fictive export image, and his engagement with the imagined Chinese artist. Roberta Wue is associate professor of Art History and director of the PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Preview: March 7, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Exhibition: March 8 - May 11 2024

Gazelli Art House, London UK

A solo exhibition exploring transitional work from 1966-1974 by represented artist Harold Cohen, coinciding with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view until 19 May 2024.

February 16 - July 14, 2024

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA

Conceived as a commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond. Highlighting the perspectives of contemporary Black artists, Emancipation features commissioned and recent works. 

February 1 - December 31, 2024

Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview TX

Celebrating American artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, using works from LMFA’s diverse Permanent Collection. Jewish-American Native-America Asian-American African-American Naïve or Self-taught Latin-American U.S. Veterans East Texas and Local.

September 22, 2023 - March 2, 2024

Visual Arts Center, Austin TX

The possibilities, limitations, and responsibilities that come with instructing both humans and computers how to see stand at the core of A Well-trained Eye. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists who explore issues such as surveillance, classification, and categorical thinking in relation to AI technologies, looking closely at the biases that underlie data collection and analysis. 

January 13 - March 3, 2024

Sparks Gallery, San Diego CA

Tiffany Bociek’s solo exhibition, Enduring Exuberance, consists of three series that were born from the artist’s internal exploration of her past, her present state of being, and a vision for her future self. Created through encaustic (wax) painting, the exhibition underscores several states of being: well-being, challenge, chaos, and transformation.

August 5, 2023 - March 3, 2024

California African American Museum, Los Angeles CA

Through the artists’ distinct and dynamic installations, A Movement in Every Direction reveals anew the spectrum of contexts that shaped the Great Migration and explores the ways in which it continues to reverberate today in both intimate and communal experiences.

December 7, 2023 - March 10, 2024

Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City MX

The project consists of an exhibition, physical and virtual, with 31 artists, researchers, and scientists, to address their maternal lineage using mitochondrial DNA as a trigger. The project includes the delivery of mitochondrial DNA results to participants, a laboratory for reflection and artistic creation, and an exhibition. This is a project developed in collaboration with the Genomic Studies Lab at UNAM.