December 5, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Since the so-called Age of Discovery, California's natural and cultural landscapes have inhabited a space between mythical projection and capitalist realism. In her talk, Nico King explores how human-made natures have been envisioned and engineered in the garden in the twentieth century, reshaping Southern California’s geographic realities in the Anthropocene.

Reception: December 5, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville 201B, UC San Diego

Students were tasked with creating original new works of any medium that illustrate their vision for the “near future” – warts and all. Radical climate disturbance, AI and personal identity, dystopia and utopia, and the relation of technology to human connection are some themes revealed in their work.

Reception: December 5, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Mandeville 201A, UC San Diego

Mail It In is an eclectic collection of sculpture work from the students of the VIS 107A class. They focus on themes of introspection, nostalgia, intimacy, and ultimately how their individual backgrounds come together to create beautiful and evocative works, and ultimately are mailed into one space full of artifacts of the lives of this diverse group of artists. 

Reception: December 5, 6:30 - 8:20 p.m.

Performances begin at 7:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Featuring a diverse array of media, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. The exhibition invites viewers to engage with both conventional and experimental materials. Many works build on earlier explorations, serving as extensions or refinements of concepts developed throughout the quarter.

December 5, 4:00 p.m. PST

Media Burn Archive

Screening and discussion with pioneering video artist Susan Mogul, moderated by scholar and filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz. The screening will include selections of Mogul’s foundational early videos – essential parts of the feminist video canon – and more recent innovative work.

Reception: December 6, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

December 6 - December 22, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

The works in this exhibition challenge us to find other ways to talk about photography and the problem of interpretation. Together they acknowledge, explore and trouble cultural genealogies as well as systems of value, familial and otherwise, both locally and globally.

December 7, 2024 - January 4, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film. 

December 7, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Mexicali Biennial, Wittier CA

Collect works from accomplished artists living and working in California and Mexico. This is a great opportunity to begin or expand your art collection and support the cultural production of the borderlands. All works will be priced at or below $500!

Reception: December 9, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

December 9 - December 12, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Students have developed artworks and installations that utilize digital electronics. Techniques in digital electronic construction and computer interfacing for interactive control of sound, lighting, and electromechanics are used to create an electro-sculptural art exhibition.

November 27, 2024 - January 27, 2025

Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes, Bogotá Colombia

RealMix 0.4 brings together mixed-reality proposals by international and Latin American artists, curated by Asher Remy-Toledo and Doreen Ríos. Featured artists include Elder Tobar, Daniel Jiménez and Nicolás Romero (Trvshologrvm), Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Luis Enrique Zela Koort, Malitzin Cortes, Mattia Casalegno, Jiatong Yao, and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.

CLOSING SOON!

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

CLOSING SOON!

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

CLOSING SOON!

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

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.

October 19 - December 7, 2024

Tres Ojos, Mexicali Baja California

In From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure, Joshua Tonies explores the aquarium as a space of intimate artifice, blending digital realism with tactile abstraction. Using 3D modeling and the mezzotint process, the aquariums blur the line between still-life and landscape. These miniature worlds reflect our desire to curate and control nature within domestic spaces.

October 30 - December 8, 2024  

Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn NY

Through this new body of work, Wright continues to explore feminism reimagining historical, architectural, and spiritual symbols, calling for transformative perspectives on gender, power, and the alchemical potential within art.

November 14 - December 10, 2024

Steppling Gallery, SDSU Imperial Valley CA

The exhibition engages with the many facets of land and terrain, exploring how landscapes are shaped by natural, human, and cosmic forces.Through paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, and photography, the artists in Across All Terrain, Land, & the Landscape present contrasting and paradoxical views on our interpretation and interactions with the land.