COMING UP

Tanya Aguiñiga Artist Talk: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence

October 17, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.


Robinson Auditorium, UC San Diego

Tanya Aguiñiga is the 2024 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

Professor Monique van Genderen, MFAs Jean Lowe, JAX, Olivia Kayang, Matthew Williams in Pedestals for People

August 25 - October 21, 2024

MvG / F St., Lompoc CA

Always thinking about what the people need, this exhibition traverses between sculpture, benches and the suggestion of benches. They are perches for contemplation and the consideration of use value. Made of a diversity of materials the works in this show do a lot of things at once, they are craft, they are design, they are conceptual. They are always-already in the mind of the observer.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim in symposium (Un)Defining Korean Architecture

October 18 - October 19, 2024

Asia Research Institute, SUNY Buffalo NY

The symposium, (Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories and Transformation, engages with robust conversations about the identity of Korea and the stories of its cities through the lens of art and architecture and invites papers and creative projects to expand this inquiry.

Professor Michael Trigilio screening & performance in Other Cinema:Optronica1

October 19, 8:00 p.m.

ATA Gallery, San Francisco CA

"Jetting up from San Diego is ex-SF hero-artist Michael Trigilio, who’s taking a break from his UCSD duties to debut his dazzling digi-animations, both as single-channel abstractions and as in-the-moment video-synthesizer performances."

Professor Danielle Dean screening Hemel

October 19, 2024

BFI London Film Festival

Creeping slime, mysterious meteorites and additional codes from 1950’s science fiction provide a lens to examine lived experiences/xenophobia in Hemel Hempstead.

Lecturer Josh Tonies exhibition From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure

Reception: October 19, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

October 19 - December 7, 2024

Tres Ojos, Mexicali Baja California

In From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure, Joshua Tonies explores the aquarium as a space of intimate artifice, blending digital realism with tactile abstraction. Using 3D modeling and the mezzotint process, the aquariums blur the line between still-life and landscape. These miniature worlds reflect our desire to curate and control nature within domestic spaces.

Professor John C. Welchman lecture series UpClose: Lectures on and around Marcel Broodthaers' Pense-Bete

October 23 - October 26, 2024

Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Ghent

To mark the centenary of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) and the 60th anniversary of his seminal piece Pense-Bête (1964), S.M.A.K. commissioned Welchman to write a close reading on this seminal work. Welchman will present his findings in a series of rolling lectures, seminars and discussions at S.M.A.K. and various partner institutes.

MFA student Emily Greenberg book Alternative Facts available for pre-order

The Book Catapult & Bookshop.org

In this absurd and wildly inventive debut collection, Emily Greenberg imagines the inner lives of the politicians, celebrities, artists, and entertainers who have ushered in our post-truth era. With equal parts compassion and incisiveness, Greenberg vividly renders the porous boundaries between fact and fiction, public and private, reality and simulation.

PhD student Hande Sever awarded Eidolon Production Grant

Eidolon Center for Everyday Photography, Budapest

"The project is a video essay examining German imperialism in West Asia, focusing on Turkey, before and during World War I through the lens of a vernacular photo album entitled Meine Liebe Pauline, zur Erinnerung an Türkei-Kleinasien 1917/181 (My Beloved Pauline, in Memory of Turkey-Asia Minor, 1917/18).

PhD student Doreen Ríos interview in book Digital Art: 1960s to Now

Victoria & Albert Museum

A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors. A collaborative, dynamic approach still characterizes the practice of today's digital artists, who employ technology as a tool while examining its social, ethical and political impact.

MFA alum Abdulhamid Kircher in 2024 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Paris Photo & Aperture

The shortlist represents more than just the most highly produced, classically beautiful books—it is also an expression of the possibilities of bookmaking across a broad spectrum of resources, intentions, and storytelling techniques.

MFA alum Misael Diaz, Cog•nate Collective How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

October 12, 2024 - January 18, 2025

The FRONT Arte y Cultura, San Ysidro CA

This solo-exhibition assembles recent site specific works by Cognate Collective that consider the radical potentials of sound and collaboration when practiced as cursi radical – an aesthetics of proximity, vulnerability and collective care. The exhibition brings attention to historical and ongoing strategies local communities have developed to facilitate movement and sustain connection across borders.

Professor Emerita Anya Gallaccio Preserve

September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Turner Contemporary, Margate UK

Anya Gallaccio: preserve is the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio. The exhibition spans three decades of Gallaccio’s radical practice, restaging several iconic sculptures in addition to a new site-specific commission. It reveals the artist’s consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment by presenting works that connect with Kent’s natural heritage.

Professor dean erdmann in exhibition Scientia Sexualis

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.

Professor Memo Akten in Color in Motion

October 6, 2024 - July 13, 2025

Academy Museum, Los Angeles CA

Memo Akten presents "Body Paint" at the Academy Museum. Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Color in Motion engages visitors through dynamic, colorful film installations and features objects from the silent era through the digital age.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Lecturer Trish Stone, Speculative Design class in exhibition curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD student Clarissa Chevalier Embodied Pacific: Seaways

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

Professors Amy Adler, PhD student Johnnie Chatman in exhibition Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, BA alum Kimberly Heard in Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier curated Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey 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

Lecturers Gosia Herc & Josh Tonies in exhibition Insite Lab

September 14 - October 19, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

The INSITE LAB is a roving platform for artists on both sides of the border designed to instigate conversations and experiences around process and research in art making. The LAB offers an innovative framework outside of academia where artists engage with specialists from a variety of disciplines and reimagine the region as a laboratory for research.

MFA alum Roman de Salvo solo exhibition O Petravia

September 15 - October 19, 2024

two rooms, La Jolla CA

De Salvo’s 2019-2023 mural for Murals of La Jolla, McCairn, was fortuitously visible from Two Rooms, catalyzing a relationship between the artist and the gallery. Once taken down, salvaging and expanding the lifespan of the 18 x 25 ft. vinyl billboard became the basis for this exhibition. O Petravia is the artist’s ode to the neighborhood of Bird Rock, through his own re-imagining of an enchanting land of rocks and birds.

Professor dean erdmann solo exhibition 38

July 13 - October 19, 2024

Louche Ops, Berlin, Germany

38 consists of a body of work that arose from erdmann's interest and research into Magnus Hirschfeld's das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and its voluminous influence on queer histories. erdmann's practice has long been concerned with the ways in which subjects develop and diverge in relation to their environments, geological and/or socio-political.

Professor Danielle Dean in Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles

October 5 - October 20, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

A group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet. Conscious Tether features work by Ahree Lee, Alice Yuan Zhang, American Artist, ann haeyoung, Danielle Dean, Devin Kenny, KCHUNG, LA Cryptoparty, Romi Morrison, Tiny Tech Zines, and Xin Xin. 

MFA alum Naomi Nadreau in Holding the Unholdable

September 28 - October 20, 2024

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles CA

Each body of work forges a new language for connection, transforming the pain of disconnection and the fear of the unknown into something tangible. Naomi Nadreau, Cara Levine, and iris yirei hu, each with their own rich mythologies, unite in a shared investigation of interiority.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in Blue Hour

October 3 - October 20, 2024

Phillips Auction, New York NY

PhillipsX is pleased to announce Blue Hour, a selling exhibition on view October 3-20at Phillips’ New York headquarters. The exhibition is curated by Joan Tucker, a recognized curator, collector, and art advisor, and features the work of nearly 20 emerging artists.

Prof. Amy Alexander in exhibition AI AI AI

September 19 - October 26, 2024

Radian Gallery, San Francisco CA

Amy Alexander's Deep Hysteria images will be part of the AI AI AI international group invitational at Radian Gallery. In AI AI AI an international group of artists harnesses the bizarre, newfound power of generative AI engines to create works that often defy an easy explanation as to “why” – why did this combination of decisions made by the human and the machine deliver this particular result?

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol exhibition Better Said With Light

September 6 - October 26, 2024

Edge Art Space, Torino Italy

Located in a place of great history and rich cultural heritage, EDGE ART SPACE is a new-generation gallery that focuses in particular on promoting emerging artists on the international stage. Each exhibition is an experiment in curation, with a view to seeking out a new voice in art.

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