April 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Design Lab, UC San Diego

This Design@Large series offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.

Performance: April 10, 7:00 - 7:30 p.m.

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 7 - April 11, 2025 by appointment

Main + Performance, Visual Arts Facility, UCSD

In RATTLEBONE, Coralys Carter lends flesh to memory. Through sculpture, etchings, and textiles, Carter contends with the places memories reside: in our objects, in our homes, and in ourselves. Carter’s work sinks into the many meanings of objects, their uses, and places within and outside of the body where memory is made.

April 7 - April 11, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

These works aim to explore and uplift the very intrinsic nature of existence and connectedness, through pieces which delve into explorations of a Filipino identity, a religious upbringing, subcultural affiliations, as well as friends and family.

Reception: April 9, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

March 29 - May 3, 2025

Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

The artist's recent residency in the desert vistas of Pioneertown, CA turned into an extended chapter in her exploration of the color blue. The Pioneertown desert and the Rocky Mountains come together to create a similar emotional environment. Piersol pulls from both, visually and psychologically, to create new landscapes.

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

Dept. of Visual Arts, UC San Diego, YouTube 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.

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.

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.

August 29, 2024 - April 12, 2025

Rubin Gallery & L Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso

The exhibition includes artwork from the U.S. Corn Belt and from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. For the artists (many of whom have witnessed these events firsthand), it is important to make visible the connections between the natural world, agricultural reform, economic recession, military intervention, civil war, genocide, and mass migrations.

January 17 - April 13, 2025

Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Washington DC

Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, curated by Georgetown University Art and Curatorial Studies graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Dorothy Moss, presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children’s books and primers (known as xiaorenshu).

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.