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February 25 - February 28, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
“Pattern of Being” highlights Sheeva’s experimentation of layering feminine floral motifs juxtaposing ideas of racial prejudice between the Middle East and the United States and of feeling distanced from her family across the world.
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February 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.
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March 1, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Facility and SME Gallery, UC San Diego
This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 25 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.
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Reception: March 1, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
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.
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March 3, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
This curator's talk focuses on Walker's forthcoming MONUMENTS exhibition at The Brick, which reflects on the histories and legacies of post-Civil War America as they continue to resonate today by bringing together a selection of decommissioned Confederate statues with contemporary artworks borrowed and commissioned for the occasion.
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March 6, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
LACE Screening Room, Los Angeles, CA
Join LACE and legendary artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul for the world premiere of her latest film, Tell Me About Your Mother (2024), which investigates matrilineal lineage, domesticity and creativity. Following the screening, LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs, Selene Preciado, moderates a conversation with Susan Mogul and artists Nao Bustamante and Yuchi Ma to contextualize their video art practice.
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March 9 - March 10, 2025
Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Ph.D. Student Jae Hwan Lim presents his paper "The Temporality of Sewol Mothers" at the University of Michigan's 12th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST).
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The Winter 2025 issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism includes an essay by PhD alum Sascha Crasnow and MFA alum Greg Sholette. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.
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College Art Association
Kester's book Beyond the Sovereign Self (Duke University Press, 2024) received the award at the 2025 College Art Association conference. The Frank Jewett Mather Award, first presented in 1963 for art journalism, is named in honor of the art critic, teacher, and scholar who was affiliated with Princeton University until his death in 1953.
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January 16 - March 14, 2025
Gallery QI, UC San Diego
Featuring works that engage elemental media used for millennia, returning our senses to the surface and to regenerative botanical practices. Artists: Pinar Yoldaş, Catherine Eng, Gloria Montes Crosthwaite, Ana Gloria (Martha) Rodriguez, and Stanley Rodriguez for Our Worlds, Paolo Zúñiga, and Betty Delsie Bosi and the women weavers of the Holau Vaka Taumako Association
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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.
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January 25 - March 1, 2025
LOS/NR, La Jolla, CA
A group show for the new year about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche - a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one's choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened.
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January 25 - March 1, 2025
two rooms, La Jolla, CA
Two Rooms is proud to present Backtrack, a two-person exhibition featuring Maddie Butler and Enrique Ciapara. Through assemblage and painting, Butler and Ciapara mediate images of everyday experiences into forms that reveal the imperfections of the hand.
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January 10 - March 1, 2025
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.
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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.
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October 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025
ICA, Los Angeles CA
Scientia Sexualis is an ambitious group survey of contemporary artists whose work confronts, dissolves, and reimagines sex and gender within the scientific apparatus. Organized by Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, UC Riverside) and Jeanne Vaccaro (Professor of Transgender Studies and Museum Studies, U of Kansas), the exhibition is part of PST ART, led by the Getty, and will be accompanied by a major scholarly publication.
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September 22, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Often LGBTQ people have forged circles of friendship and alternative families as they navigate their identity, need for authentic self expression, and frequently hostile environment. Drawing on artworks in the SBMA collection and loans from artists, this exhibition explores art about LGTBQ friendship, companionship, solidarity, and desire.
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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.
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October 25, 2024 - March 9, 2025
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO
In their first solo museum exhibition, Campbell reflects on material histories, archival imagery, and abstraction in a subtle evocation of the Philippine landscape and colonial extraction. Rooted in familial history and the underloved, these new works in blown glass, handmade paper, digital collages, and video evocatively trace the ways in which nature, U.S. colonization of the Philippines, and abstraction are intertwined.
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