COMING UP

MFA students Sophia Cleary, Andrew Wharton in everything and anything

Reception: August 1, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

August 1 - September 13, 2025

Level of Service/Not Required, La Jolla, CA

This is a show about the fluff that is filling and covering the story structures of our lives, each step, each level. Participating artists are: Sophia Cleary, Dove Cochrane, Adele Gaburo, April Rose, Louise Russell, and Andrew Warthon.

MFA alum Kirstyn Hom walk-through for Present Tense

Artist walk-through: August 2, 11:00 a.m.

July 11 - August 9, 2025

Two Rooms, San Diego, CA

Working across textile, painting, and book arts, Hom and Rubottom engage in multi-generational dialogues with relatives from Guangdong, China, and Vienna, Austria. Both artists reinvigorate diasporic materials, forms, and phrases from the prior century, bringing them into a contemporary context to form new site-specific tapestries and libraries.

ICAM seniors online exhibition

Electric Soup

Kamil Gallery Online

Presented by senior ICAM students, this exhibition showcases their capstone projects of a wide range of works–from interactive installations and games to sound, video, and experimental media. Each project merges art and technology to explore a variety of themes and unique perspectives developed over two quarters.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

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

MFA alum Sadie Barnette How to Win

June 27 — August 1, 2025

Sean Kelly, New York, NY

With her new exhibit, Sadie Barnette adopts the lexicon of the how-to guide to explore who has “it all” figured out, who doesn’t, and how far people will go to achieve power and impact. She extracts observations of societal functioning from public and private spheres, as well as the machinations of a society constantly in creative motion. 

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition POSITIONER

May 31 - Aurgust 9, 2025

Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA

Paul Mpagi Sepuya creates photographs that weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium.

PhD student Hande Sever exhibition Take off your eyes

May 22 - August 10, 2025

REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

Hande Sever explores cultural and political archives by excavating texts and images that shape historical narratives. Often drawing from her own family’s history of persecution, her work examines the intersection of personal and collective memory, particularly in the context of military violence, surveillance, and censorship. Take off your eyes presents two bodies of work rooted in Southern California collections.

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