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SICCA Fellowship Forum with Visual Arts UG and MFA students, alumni, faculty

October 18, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Mosaic Hall 113, UC San Diego

The 2025 Fellowship Forum showcases and celebrates the diverse cinematic work produced by the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts fellowship recipients, including MFA students Jamil Baldwin, Sophia Cleary, PhD students Hande Sever, Joe Riley, BA alumni James DeLisio, Lennon Lilienthal-Wynn, Alexander Lowe, UG student Blake Riesenfeld, Professor Robert Twomey.

Lecturer Geoffroy Tobé exhibition Here and There

Reception: October 18, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 18 - November 8, 2025

R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

This exhibition brings together paintings, ceramics, and a lithograph — works made through observation, memory, and intuition. Each medium speaks its own language, but they share a common interest in shape, rhythm, and mark-making. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the work explores the tension between chaos and control.

Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel exhibition TILT-A-WHIRL

Reception: October 18, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

October 4 - November 1, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

The paintings in TILT-A-WHIRL were made on unstretched California King bedsheets, representing a shift from a primarily pattern language to the pictorial, wherein singular images and color fields work in unison to define the composition. Several gouache studies, also on view, reveal how the artist tested these arrangements before scaling up their proportions.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya, MFA alum Lorna Simspon in Echo Delay Reverb

October 22, 2025 - February 15, 2026

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

The group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world.

"Where Are the Boundaries Between Human and Non-Human Intelligence?" on upcoming exhibition Omni Intelligent

UC San Diego Today

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed our world, prompting questions about the intersections of humans and machines and what constitutes intelligence. A group of nine artists and collectives contemplate these complex questions in a new exhibit at Mandeville Art Gallery which opens Oct. 1st.

Professor Memo Akten in exhibition Mythology of Tomorrow

October 4 – October 25, 2025

120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Mythology has acted as an ancient technology weaving itself into the cultural imagination, allowing humans to create meaning and social cohesion through stories; these stories, however, all journey towards obsolescence. Today, we are witnessing such an obsolescence that has historically led to a crumbling of institutions and ideologies. As society moves through this process, we encounter the potential to evolve.

Professor Memo Akten in Subject to Change

October 3 - December 19, 2025

Gazelli Art House, London, UK

Subject to Change brings together nine internationally recognised artists who work critically with algorithms, datasets, and machine learning – processes often bundled together under the term artificial intelligence (AI). While acknowledging the significant societal impact of fast-developing AI tools, this exhibition focuses on artists who critically engage with their biases, limitations, and possibilities, and in doing so actively shape this new landscape.

Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin exhibition A Retrospective

September 26, 2025 - February 8, 2026

MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg

This first major retrospective since 1999 – and the first ever in Europe – presents Antin’s œuvre in full breadth. The exhibition highlights the continued relevance and influence of her work from the late 1960s till today, when issues of power imbalance and collective and individual representation have taken on renewed urgency.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

UG student Meltem Buyuran exhibition Babushkas & Backgammon

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.

Omni Intelligent

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. 

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

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold Seeing Children

June 27 - October 12, 2025

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Faith Ringgold: Seeing Children is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the artist’s original children’s books. The richly saturated images and imaginative storytelling in Ringgold’s narratives offer important windows into her creative practice and the American story.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in On View: Encounters with the Photographic

July 4 - October 12, 2025

Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Over the summer, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst is dedicating an extensive exhibition to its significant photographic holdings. With a selection of around 250 works by more than 60 artists from the past hundred years up to the present day, this overview traces the developments in the photographic collections at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen since their creation.

BA alumni Angelo Aguila, Sheeva Davari, James Delisio in Athenaeum's 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition

July 26 - October 18, 2025

Athenaeum Arts & Music Library, La Jolla, CA

One of the most prestigious juried shows in San Diego, selected artists exhibit their work in the galleries, receive excellent exposure, and mingle with both artists and art lovers at an opening reception. Juror Malcolm Warner, art historian and curator, selected the final 29 artists to exhibit.

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