COMING UP

MFA student Andrew Wharton, BA alum Kiko Thomas in Soft Launch

Reception: August 23, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

August 23 - September 4, 2025

Material Projects, Los Angeles, CA

We are pleased to announce Soft Launch, the inaugural exhibition of Material Projects. We are an artists run space in downtown Los Angeles. This show features some of the best emerging talent from across the region, capturing the diversity and depth of the Los Angeles art scene.

Big Mother's 6th Annual Artists in Solidarity Auction

August 23, 5:00 p.m. - September 6, 11:00 p.m.

Silent Online Auction

BA allumna Marisa DeLuca asks you to please join her in supporting local immigrant families directly affected by immigration enforcement by supporting Artists in Solidarity's sixth annual art auction. All proceeds after expenses will be disbursed as cash grants to three immigrant families who have experienced kidnappings recently.

BA alum MG Evangelista awarded New Voices Filmmaker Grant


NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, supported by Netflix, supports emerging directors telling LGBTQ+ stories by providing funding to make new work, assisting in getting their work more widely shared, and propelling their careers forward through mentorship, networking and professional development opportunities.

Professor Ricardo Dominguez published trans/BORDER/ing in Beyond Sanctuary

Duke University Press

Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez on behalf of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 published a new play focused on critical transborder conditions. The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge.

MFA alum Maddie Butler & PhD student Jeffrey Stuker in Painting All Together

August 16 - September 27, 2025

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The group exhibition extends the ongoing dialogue of Painting as Is—a conversation grounded in the belief that painting remains a vital, self-reflexive medium for negotiating material, image, and subjectivity. This fourth installment unfolds across five conceptual threads: inscription, object-hood, recollection, event, and projection.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

Professors Memo Akten, Robert Twomey, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith 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

Professor Memo Akten in Dancing the Algorithm

July 6 – August 23, 2025

Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA

Curated by Katherine Helen Fisher, this exhibit features artists whose works illuminate how the dancing body doesn’t just adapt to technology, but shapes it, challenges it, and celebrates the new possibilities it creates.

MFA student Nube Hawk Cruz in America (Soy Yo!)

July 19 - August 30, 2025

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

A group exhibition curated by Los Angeles artist, curator, and gallery director Ever Velasquez. America (Soy Yo!) brings together artists from across the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Canada who collectively interrogate ideas of forced migration, land ownership, and the man-made borders that separate us.

MFA alum Deanna Barahona exhibition Stars Love Being Alone

June 6 - August 31, 2025

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA

Barahona’s art is full of bright colors, glitter, photos, ceramic tile, and cartoons. She draws inspiration from family parties, the decorations in her childhood home, and everyday objects like Valentine’s stickers or leftover balloons. New works made for this exhibition include images from important rites of passage and cultural events.

Professor Amy Adler exhibition Nice Girl

April 26 - September 7, 2025

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA

Nice Girl presents a new body of oil pastel works that investigate the ubiquitous social media mirror selfie, reflecting how people both see themselves and share outward their own reflections. Across the 20 canvases that comprise the show’s installation, a series of anonymous young women meet our eye, each having made the choice to share their likeness online with the public.

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