COMING UP

MFA alum Sam Wohl in Provócame

Reception: August 2, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

August 2 - September 7, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The show invites artists from across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Albania and Mexico to an exhibition organized as a love letter to an idealized home – one both real and imagined, archival and ancestral – about the impact of displacement on their cities’ empowerment, embodiment, and resilience.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim participating in Public Art / Public Sphere 2024: A 3-day Intensive for Artists

August 3, August 10, 2024

The City of San Diego, Commission for Arts and Culture

The City of San Diego supports artists to participate in Public Art/Public Sphere, a three-day intensive for artists interested in working in the public realm and competing for public art commissions. Public Art / Public Sphere is recognized as an initiative within the WDC2024 Community Program of the World Design Capital 2024 (San Diego/Tijuana 2024). This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.

MFA alum Amir Saadiq screening Just Beyond

August 15, 2024

Olympia, New York NY

Just Beyond locates itself within the haunting historical landscape of the American south amongst literal and figurative structures of violence. Through jarring, ephemeral and viscerally evocative moving images, cinematic pauses of entrance and exiting highlight the plight of an onerous escape muddled in timeless brutality.

PhD candidate Mingyong Cheng performance video Learning to Move, Learning to Play, Learning to Animate

IDEAS Qualcomm Institute

A cross-disciplinary multimedia performance piece that challenges the human-centric perspective and aims to offer a new way of experiencing the world. Inspired by the concept of “the more-than-human-world” and its conceptual connection to shadow art, this performance features robot performers constructed from natural materials that learn to interact and perceive the world. 

Professor Memo Akten Boundaries at Venice Biennale

April 20 - November 24, 2024

Venice Biennale, Italy

The Vanhaerents Art Collection is holding it’s third exhibition on the occassion of 60th Venice Biennale. Entitled ‘Boundaries’ which will showcase a digital work that Memo Akten has made on commission for the Vanhaerents Art Collection.

MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, Guillermo Estrada, Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres in Ni todas las formas, ni todo el lenguaje

July 20 - September 1, 2024

Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara México

“Not all forms, not all language” brings together artists involved with Residency 797, a space aimed at reflection, research and production of contemporary painting. The exhibition does not only integrate work produced in the residence, but gives its creators the freedom to propose new approaches that result in a diverse, powerful and structured dialogue.

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Susan Mogul in Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles

June 21 – August 9, Oruzar Projects, New York NY

June 29 - August 10, as-is.la, Los Angeles CA

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

MFA alum Zara Kuredjian solo exhibition Sandbox

July 20 - August 11, 2024

Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition features an installation of objects from Kuredjian’s Blocks series, a scattered constellation of square stone-like objects that combine earth, hydrostone, and silver. Sandbox was inspired by Kuredjian’s fascination with volcanic sites throughout California as well as architectural elements from monastic complexes in the southern Caucasus.

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