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PhD candidate Doreen A. Ríos curated Minimal Rituals

Beginning August 27, 2023

Arebyte, London UK

An online exhibition that blurs the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines, and invites us to consider the ways in which technology can be used to reconnect with ourselves and each other through the mineral computation that surrounds us. 

Asst. Prof. Memo Akten in Surreal Futures

August 27, 2023–January 28, 2024

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl Germany

Artists from 19 countries address the urgent questions of the 21st century in interactive video works, virtual and augmented reality experiences, multimedia installations and digital image worlds, with a view to the impact of globalisation, digitalisation and the climate crisis.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa talk for Se Busca

September 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA

SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.

MFA alum Jesse Mockrin solo exhibition

September 8 - October 21, 2023

James Cohan Gallery, New York NY

Jesse Mockrin’s luminous oil paintings extract details from European Old Master paintings, reformulating and recontextualizing cultural narratives and art historical motifs to speak to the present. For Mockrin, these paintings and stories function as an entry point into an ongoing conversation about images, time, appropriation, and gender constructs.

MFA alum Virginia Maksymowicz The Lightness of Bearing

Reception: September 14, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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.

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

Reception: September 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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 candidate Doreen A. Ríos essay Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject

Eyebeam and Momus Critical Writing Fellowship 2023

The first time I visited Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), a house of creative electronic experimentation in the heart of Mexico City, I didn’t know what to expect. I was looking for something I didn’t quite know how to name, until I found this space.

MFA alum Maria Mathioudakis in HereIn Journal

Elizabeth Rooklidge for HereIn Journal

Called Untitled (Melting Specula with Acetone in Glass) (2023), it consists of a plastic gynecological speculum placed in a glass vessel, with the ends of the speculum’s bills dissolving into a foamy liquid. It is, I notice immediately, incredibly elegant; its crystalline materials, shiny surfaces, and delicate bubbles are all exquisite in their ethereality. But the work is also unsettling.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Death Drive

CLOSING SOON!

September 23, 2022 - August 25, 2023

Rice University, Houston TX

Join the Moody and the artist Danielle Dean to celebrate the opening of Death Drive, a new installation in the Off the Wall program. The series commissions Core residency program alumni to create a site-specific installation for this space that will be on view for one year. 

MFA alum Işık Kaya in Into the Uncanny Valley

CLOSING SOON!

July 14 - August 26, 2023

Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Into the Uncanny Valley features four artists who came of age during the digital revolution and whose work responds to novel and often fabricated realities. As augmented realities and deep fakes become increasingly advanced and prevalent, they are beginning to challenge social order and established hierarchies, while also destabilizing our own internal judgment.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa and MFA candidate Deanna Barahona in Ahorita!

CLOSING SOON!

July 8 - September 2, 2023

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The artists make work that calls attention to many of the foremost issues facing our communities, be they issues that manifest in the lived environment, issues of historical or contemporary cultural representation, or interior-focused issues. Ahorita! is both a call to resilience and a celebration of this ascendant artistic moment which is being defined by impactful women and non-binary artists.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems Reflections for Now

CLOSING SOON!

June 22 - September 3, 2023

Barbican Art Gallery, London UK

Carrie Mae Weems is celebrated for her exploration of identity, power, desire and social justice through work that challenges representations of race, gender, and class. The largest presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary work in the UK to date, this exhibition brings together photographs, films and installations spanning over three decades. 

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell named 2023–24 Freund Fellow

e-flux Education

The annual Freund Fellowship involves teaching an art course at the school, giving a public lecture, and a solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Campbell will spend a semester in St. Louis teaching a class of their own design, titled “Artists in the Archive.” They’ll take the class to various archives throughout St. Louis and use what they find as a jumping off point for artworks.

MFA alum Martha Rosler profile

New York Times Magazine

Rosler, 80, has earned the strange distinction of being the institutionally celebrated godmother of American protest art. Using media ranging from performance and video to photography and sculpture, she has been mounting an unrelenting opposition to America’s various social injustices — and to many of its citizens’ willful ignorance of them. 

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