Reception: April 17, 5:00 -7:00 p.m.

Atkinson Hall, CALIT2 Theater, UC San Diego

How do we communicate what cannot be seen? Doctors and patients engage with this question every day, translating physical and mental experience into shareable data. Resonant Images is an immersive installation that explores how medical imaging devices give form to bodily feeling. Bringing together moving image, sound and sculpture, this work unravels the complex relationships between technology, pain and the act of diagnosis.

April 4 - April 18, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Nelwat (root in nahuat) is a culmination of work pertaining to themes of cuirness, migration, and translation. Join us for a sound performance on April 10th from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm as a part of Moe's exploration of maps as graphic scores. Guest musicians performing include Lyra Montoya, Emir Chacra, and Ana Luisa Díaz.

April 15 - April 18, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Mar y Monarcas is an interdisciplinary joint exhibition of works by Natalia Hernandez and James-Keith Chiswell, including video installation, sculpture, painting, photography, and more. Though we have very separate stories and experiences, we connect through the depth of our emotion, the way we love ourselves and those around us, and how we channel all of that into the art we create.

April 19, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club, UC San Diego

Three undergraduate Media majors present on their research-based work at URC: Amanda Salatino, "The Eccentric Subconscious," Grace Smith: "Thread by Thread: Reconnecting with Family Through Felt & Stop-Motion," and Sophie Zhang, "Demonic: A Continuous Archive" Professor Dino Dinco will moderate the panel.

Reception: April 21, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

April 22 - April 26, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

UpThere, 353 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Harnessing my emotions and what I’ve experienced in life drives my artistic practice. Grappling with time passing and introspection of my personal life are notable themes that I explore in my works. While attending UCSD, commuting has played a pivotal role in shaping my perception of time. Despite living only about twenty miles away, in National City, the back and forth away from home and to school has felt perpetual.

April 25, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego, Livestream

Mary Mattingly (b. 1978) is an interdisciplinary artist who cares deeply about water and believes in the power of public art. She founded Swale, an edible landscape on a public barge in New York City. Recent public art projects include Limnal Lacrimosa in Glacier National Park, Public Water with +More Art in New York, Vanishing Point with Metal Southend and Focal Point Gallery in the UK.

Reception: April 25, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Facultad de Artes Mexicali, Mexíco

Organized by Lecturers Gosia Herc-Balaszek and Josh Tonies, along with Héctor Bázaca López (UABC), and Adrián Pereda Vidal (UABC), the project emerges from a shared commitment to experimental pedagogy that values process, dialogue, and artistic collaboration. The central prompt invites students to think beyond geographic and cultural divisions, using drawing as a medium for connection.

April 26 - September 7, 2025

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA

Nice Girl presents a new body of oil pastel works that investigate the ubiquitous social media mirror selfie, reflecting how people both see themselves and share outward their own reflections. Across the 20 canvases that comprise the show’s installation, a series of anonymous young women meet our eye, each having made the choice to share their likeness online with the public.

April 26, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Casa la línea arte contemporáneo, Calexico, CA

Haunting Present is a series of screenings, performances, and listening sessions that explore the medium as a space for the ghostly, and its relationship to the archive, the moving image, and technology. Framed within the notion of hauntology, these activations stem from the idea that certain elements of the past continue to insist upon the present, without being entirely alive or entirely absent.

April 10 - May 30, 2025

UpThere, 353 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

A series of exhibitions throughout the spring will include undergraduate students David Lovell, Angelo Aguila, Gissela Castillo, Youngmi Bombach, Malika Charles, Adi Venkatesh, Amanda Salatino, Holda Ashima, Jaime Leynes, Jeana Yoon, Kyra Brantley, Lauren Reed, Maximiliano Hernandez, and Noah Harvey.

Throughout 2025

San Diego International Airport

The pioneers of the 1960s Southern California Light and Space movement revolutionized minimalism by using new light-interactive materials like resin, plastics, and neon. Mirror Mirror draws inspiration from this legacy, bringing together 16 regional contemporary artists who work with similar principles of light, color, perspective, and materiality.

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.

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.

July 12, 2024 - April 20, 2025 

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Through portraiture and biography, the one-room exhibition will explore Baldwin’s legacy alongside his contemporaries in art, music, film, literature and activism. “On the centennial of Baldwin’s birth, it is important to look at this prolific thinker and writer, not only for his visionary insights but his influence that still resonates,” Combs said.

March 29 - April 30, 2025

CTRL Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation and film by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter that invites the viewer to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment. The work interweaves dance, poetry, music, generative imagery and the neurological phenomenon of embodied simulation with artificial intelligence.