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Asst. Prof. Janelle Iglesias in Strangers to/in/of/… this world

Reception: October 26, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

October 16 - October 29, 2023

Harry Wood Gallery, ASU Tempe AZ

“Strangers to/in/of/… this world” is an exhibition in conjunction with the 2023 SLSA Conference, hosted at ASU. In response to the conference theme of "Alien," we are looking at the themes of extra/terrestrial and in/human encompassing conversations with and around the human body, landscape and belonging, along with everything else in the great unknown.

PhD candidate Hande Sever in UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium

October 27, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA

Bodies of water contain multiple dimensions of histories, cultures, and topographies of the world. They have facilitated the movement of resources, goods, and people over long distances. The 58th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, In/On/Across Bodies of Water, will explore bodies of water as media of expression, spaces of connection, frameworks of thoughts, and systems of cultural exchanges in art history.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial

Reception: October 27, 7:00 p.m.

October 27, 2023 - January 10, 2024

Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Titled "Espacios Líquidos: Políticas de la Pantalla" (Liquid Spaces: Screen Politics). This exhibition will be hosted at both the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo and Q Galería in Quito, Ecuador. This edition is committed to reflection on thinking, navigating, using and hacking screens and their contents through artistic proposals.

MFA alumni Victor Castañeda H, Dillon Chapman, beck haberstroh, Kirstyn Hom, MFA candidate JAX in i heard you whisper when the veil was thinning, so clearly you said, “together we’re softer”

October 28, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Witches Tower, San Diego CA

Curated by MFA alumni mika Castañeda and Cat Gunn, Harvest and Gather presents it’s inaugural pop up exhibition. This exhibition centers a shared passion for transcending the moment and lingers in the psyche, embracing a beauty that persists in the temporary. Much like the legends surrounding the witches tower, the artists and their work emphasize that the most enchanting stories are the ones that exist only for a moment.

Profs. Anya Gallaccio & Janelle Iglesias, MFA alum Joe Yorty in SD Art Prize 2023 Exhibition

Reception: October 28, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

October 28, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Central Library, San Diego CA

The San Diego Art Prize is predicated on the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city, and was conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection, and social interaction around San Diego’s artistic and cultural life.

Storytelling: Envisioning the Future, Honoring the Past

October 28, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Celebrate the history of filmed entertainment and take a look forward into the future of filmmaking and TV with a panel of industry experts and filmmakers. From the use of traditional celluloid to the advent of virtual production using LED walls, get insights from those who are innovating the entertainment industry while maintaining the foundations of exceptional storytelling.

UG alum Kimberly R. Heard Let It Ripen on the Windowsill

Reception: October 28, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.

October 14 – October 29 by appointment

orlando, Los Angeles CA

In 2020, Heard inherited a photographic archive that documented the quotidian life of her extended family dating back to the early 1900s. Through her mediation of archival and ephemeral material, the photographic image is transmuted into a boundless and unfixed form.

MFA candidate Jun!yi Min, MFA alum Cat Gunn in Queering the Table

October 30, 5:30 - 9:30pm

Mingei Museum, San Diego CA

The familial dinner table is often a daunting space for queer Asians because of unspoken games, awkwardness, hierarchical ideology, and passive aggressiveness. This one-day exhibition, curated by Jun!yi Min, clears the table by forefronting open communication and providing space for communal witnessing. Please RSVP

UG student Jasmine Robinson Teenage Dream

October 31 - November 9, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Reception: November 2, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This exhibition will showcase works that explore the trials and tribulations of girlhood, specifically, teenage dreams. Through mixed media paintings and photography, Teenage Dream will take you on a journey through heartbreak, angst, and true love.

PhD candidate Hande Sever Something Like A Battlecry: On Sculptor Kuzgun Acar

November 1, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Black Studies Project, PEB 201, UC San Diego

Hande Sever's dissertation research focuses on the life and work of Ethiopian-Turkish artist Kuzgun Acar (1928–1976), a pioneering Black artist and activist whose entire oeuvre was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1971 and 1980 Turkish military coups. RSVP for lunch

Ceres Madoo: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Lecture

November 2, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Center Hall, Room 119, UC San Diego

Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon, like her art work, Ceres’ personal identity defies categorization. With a BA from UC San Diego ('89) and an MFA from Rutgers University, her conceptual, fluxus, critical educational roots happily collide with her inherent interests in non-western art, folk and craft methodologies.

MFA alum Doris Bittar Colonial Colonnade

Reception: November 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Arab American National Museum, Dearborn MI

Colonial Colonnade partners Arabic and English as a nonlinear and unsequenced format of words without start and end points. Facets of the exhibition include cutout curtains of grouped text, moveable words, steel footholds to swing and hang from, and an encounter with a menagerie of letters and symbols.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama I Get to Have My Own Private Hope

Reception: November 11, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 16, 2023

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Yue Nakayama works with video, text, and installation. Her practice is centered on reinterpreting minor histories, memories, and personal anecdotes to stage an absurd intervention that disrupts our social expectations and perceptions.

Work by Professor Pinar Yoldas acquired by Senckenberg Naturmuseum


The artist and scientist Pınar Yoldaş shows a new site-specific installation from her investigation “An Ecosystem of Excess”, which has been growing steadily since 2014. The focus is on the oceans – once the origin of evolution and today heavily infested with plastic.

PhD candidate Hande Sever awarded Kulturakademie Tarabya Artist Residency


Kulturakademie Tarabya is an institution of the German Federal Government. It is run by the Goethe-Institut in Turkey. Hande Sever's residency at the academy will be supported with funds made available from the Goethe-Institut in Turkey and Allianz Foundation in Berlin, Germany. 

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa exhibition ‘Se Busca’ in LA Times


Artist Lorena Ochoa sees their birthplace of Santa Ana as a city that contains multitudes. Ochoa explores those multitudes in their show at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, “Lorena Ochoa: Se Busca,” which examines the place where memory and transport intersect in their home town.

Prof. Grant Kester presents Issue #25 of Field Journal


We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Virginia Maksymowicz The Lightness of Bearing

September 5 - October 28, 2023

Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro NJ

The works consider the symbolic resilience and strength of the female figure in art and architecture by blending the mythology of caryatids, (architectural columns of women effortlessly bearing the weight of massive architectural structures) with images of women from indigenous and ethnic cultures bearing the weight of ritualistic traditions.

ONGOING IN TOWN

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers

October 5 - December 8, 2023

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

October 7 - December 9, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Party Saturday October 7th, 2-6pm, featuring a new commission by Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim, performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop at 4pm. Taco catering 2-4pm, open bar 2-6pm.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Bazar

October 21 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

Bazar originated out of Dean’s research in the archives of Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, and her work with a group of women from Permis de Vivre la Ville (License to Live in the City), a community engagement organization working to increase social engagement in the Paris suburbs.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin Tell Me About Yourself

September 23 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.

MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Arlene Mejorado, Lorena Ochoa in NextGen 2023

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim organized Mundanity of North Korea

October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Geisel Library, UC San Diego

This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin and Profs. Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade in Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian

September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.

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