January 29, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. & by appointment

Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

In their film Street Angel, Michelle Sui offers a poetic and immersive exploration of Los Angeles' Chinatown district, blending fiction and documentary. The film reveals the split between the stereotypes imposed by Hollywood and the historical and cultural reality of Chinatown for the Chinese diaspora.

Reception: January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 27 - 31, 2025, by appointment

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Chimera is an exhibition using AI and surveillance to explore Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Trailcam Imagery, and the potential to reverse the gaze in predator/prey and creator/creation relationships.

Reception: January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 31 - March 16, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

The first major solo exhibition in New York of this seminal post-Mexican, neo-American artist, it highlights new directions in his groundbreaking practice. A leading figure in the Mexican and Latinx artistic communities, Ortiz-Torres’s spectacular deconstruction of styles, dislocation of paradigms of identity, and creation of new forms of political aesthetics offers multiple perspectives on the fluidity of culture.

February 1, 6:00 p.m.

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Presented by goodgoodthings, Dear LA, Love, SD is a one-night-only fundraising exhibition of work by San Diego artists centered on supporting our fellow artists in LA who have been impacted by the recent, devastating wildfires. All works will be priced at $300., with 100% of sales being donated to Grief x Hope, who will distribute funds directly to LA artists in need. 

Reception: February 3, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 4 - February 7, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Gallery exhibition of artworks by Nicole Johnson. Nicole's work aims to capture sentimental and often poignant moments with the use of black and white values in her charcoal drawings. She uses feminine subjects to convey ideas of nostalgia, vulnerability, and care for those represented in her works. 

Reception: February 8, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 8 - April 5, 2025

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, CA

The Intimacies Between Continents brings together the work of Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Danielle Dean, and Africanus Okokon — three contemporary artists who work across video, sculpture, and installation to unearth the often forgotten material traces of the historical processes that produced global capitalism. 

Reception: February 8, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 8 - March 7, 2025

CCS Art Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA

Small marks and individual units combine to build a landscape and architecture greater than its own. The exhibition brings together the distinctive work of two artists, Melinda Braathen and Liz Stringer, each offering a unique perspective on the delicate interplay between the individual and the collective.

February 8 - May 11, 2025

Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom

Danielle Dean’s work spans video, painting, installation, social practice and performance. Drawing on archival records, film and advertising, Dean’s practice interrogates how individuals are shaped by commercial narratives and explores historical and contemporary representations of labour, racialised identity and popular culture.

February 10, 5:00 - 6:20 p.m.

B-202 Mandeville Center, UC San Diego

Carmen Winant is a Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University, where she is the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art, and an affiliated faculty member in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. Winant’s work poses a challenge to the ways that we understand women’s power, pleasure, labor, healing, and liberation to function, querying the aesthetic and political legacy of second-wave feminism.

February 10, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, CA

Superradiance. Embodying Earth is a multiscreen video and sound installation by artists Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstader. Inspired by conversations between the artists and Scripps researchers, this work explores the complex interactions between land, ocean and atmosphere that shape our living planet by interweaving dance, poetry, music and generative imagery with artificial intelligence.

January 27 - March 02, 2025

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

This multidisciplinary exhibition explores the intersection of art, ecology, and technology, reflecting on the site’s layered history and envisioning its future. From playful interventions and dystopian meditations to utopian visions of renewal, the works on display invite visitors to confront critical environmental questions.

January 9 - February 8, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows. Los Angeles-based curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos worked as the Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition, where she conducted studio visits with the cohort and devised the exhibition’s title and theme.

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.

January 21 - January 29, 2025

CSULB School of Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA

California State University, Long Beach is thrilled to announce the 20th Annual Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA), presented by the School of Art graduate students! This milestone exhibition celebrates two decades of showcasing exceptional work by MFA students from graduate programs across Southern California.

November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Diaries of Home is an exhibition of works by twelve women and nonbinary artists who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.The artists challenge documentary photography by pushing it into conceptual, performative, and theatrical realms. They probe preconceptions about domestic, familial, and communal spaces in the United States, which are often considered feminine spheres.

January 11 - February 8, 2025

Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA

Midnight Gardens brings together a group of artists exploring landscapes, still lifes, and botanical scenes shrouded in the quiet mystery of night. The interplay of shadow and subtle light charges these nocturnal scenes with a sense of intrigue, as the night itself becomes a transformative force, revealing hidden layers of meaning and new possibilities.

September 25, 2024 - February 9, 2025

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

This dynamic showcase brings together visual art, live performance, music, a range of archival materials, and a multi-screen video installation drawn from recordings of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) repertory to explore the full range of Ailey’s personal and creative life.