COMING UP

Professor Memo Akten in Subject to Change

October 3 - December 19, 2025

Gazelli Art House, London, UK

Subject to Change brings together nine internationally recognised artists who work critically with algorithms, datasets, and machine learning – processes often bundled together under the term artificial intelligence (AI). While acknowledging the significant societal impact of fast-developing AI tools, this exhibition focuses on artists who critically engage with their biases, limitations, and possibilities, and in doing so actively shape this new landscape.

Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel exhibition TILT-A-WHIRL

October 4 - November 1, 2025

Reception: October 18, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

The paintings in TILT-A-WHIRL were made on unstretched California King bedsheets, representing a shift from a primarily pattern language to the pictorial, wherein singular images and color fields work in unison to define the composition. Several gouache studies, also on view, reveal how the artist tested these arrangements before scaling up their proportions.

Professor Memo Akten in exhibition Mythology of Tomorrow

Reception: October 4, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 4 – October 25, 2025

120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Mythology has acted as an ancient technology weaving itself into the cultural imagination, allowing humans to create meaning and social cohesion through stories; these stories, however, all journey towards obsolescence. Today, we are witnessing such an obsolescence that has historically led to a crumbling of institutions and ideologies. As society moves through this process, we encounter the potential to evolve.

BA alum Liz Stringer in Mostly Thorns, copresented by MFA alum Zebulon Zang

Receptions: October 4-5; 11am - 6pm

September 15 - October 5, 2025

UCI Nature Burns Piñion Ridge Reserve, Yucca Valley, CA

Mostly Thorns is an exhibition loosely assembled under the ‘The Rose, Bud, Thorn’ framework—an exercise reflecting on three aspects of an experience: a Rose (a highlight, success, or positive moment), a Bud (a potential for growth, or something to look forward to), and a Thorn (a challenge, disappointment, or area needing improvement).

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in exhibition (Re)Constructing History

October 4, 2025 - May 3, 2026

SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA

(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present. Borrowing its title from artist Carrie Mae Weems’s featured series, Constructing History, this installation invites audiences to imagine the layers of history we encounter through a seemingly fixed image.

UG student Meltem Buyuran exhibition Babushkas & Backgammon

Reception: October 6, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

October 6 - October 16, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Inspired by my roots in the Caucasus, as well as my fascination with human emotion, most of my paintings reflect the cultural scenes and spirited individuals I’ve encountered on my travels through Azerbaijani towns and villages.

Professor Jessica D’Elena-Tweed designed book trilogy by Robert Booras

University of Arkansas Press

Known colloquially as “The Adonis Saga,” this trilogy by author Robert Booras and conceptualized, designed, and art directed by Assistant Professor Jessica D’Elena-Tweed, manipulates sonic visualization techniques to produce graphical illustrations generated by the musical compositions that provide the book's structure. The contents are a variety of species, including scenes, poetry, and interludes that adopt “words in freedom” typographic arrangements. Green of Each Window, Crystalline Green, Afterwards

Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin exhibition

A Retrospective

September 26, 2025 - February 8, 2026

MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg

This first major retrospective since 1999 – and the first ever in Europe – presents Antin’s œuvre in full breadth. The exhibition highlights the continued relevance and influence of her work from the late 1960s till today, when issues of power imbalance and collective and individual representation have taken on renewed urgency.

MFA students Nube Cruz, Jamil Baldwin, MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, Moe Penders Ramos, Arlene Mejorado, BA alum Aldo Cervantes in Concrete Hope

September 23, 2025 - May 9, 2026

Reception: October 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, CA

Concrete Hope foregrounds the multiplicity of Brown identity in Southern California as a mode of cultural self-affirmation. Bringing together thirty-eight emergent photographers and lens-based artists, the exhibition examines how media based photography, articulates the layered narratives and lived experiences of this complex community.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Omni Intelligent

October 1 - December 6, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Omni Intelligent is a group exhibition that explores the intertwined and interdependent relationships between non-human and human entities as artificial intelligence becomes an integrated part of contemporary life. Spanning a wide range of mediums the exhibition offers the visitor a full sensory experience that speaks to the profound shifts unfolding during this pivotal moment. 

A Sea of Little Fires

August 28 - December 1, 2025

Arts & Humanities Bldg. 1st floor, UC San Diego

Inspired by Eduardo Galleano’s poetry, this year's PATH Art Exhibit is inspired by his poem The World that describes: “The world is that—he revealed—A cluster of people, a sea of little fires. Each person shines with their own light among all others. No two fires are alike.” A Sea of Little Fires is the theme for this year’s exhibit. Join us for an exhibit that celebrates the different ways in which people shine in this world and bring light to the world.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim curated exhibit Here, Now 여기, 지금

September 19, 2025 – December 14, 2025

The Nest, UC San Diego Library 

Here, Now 여기, 지금 highlights publications on the Korean War from historical and artistic perspectives, as well as unique materials related to the Korean War and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The exhibition features special collections from the University of Southern California (USC)’s Korean Heritage Library, the University of Michigan (U-M)’s Asia Library, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. 

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 Paul Mpagi Sepuya in exhibition To Improvise a Mountain

May 16 - October 5, 2025

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds UK

The exhibition's curatorial spirit stems from a fragment of poetry within Miles Davis’s ‘Inamorata’ (1971), which asks: ‘Who is this music that which description may never justify? / Can the ocean be described?’. For Yiadom-Boakye, poetry’s ability to translate the intangible into images the mind can hold, and to think through rhythm and feeling, is similar to the act of painting.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold exhibition Seeing Children

June 27 - October 12, 2025

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Faith Ringgold: Seeing Children is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the artist’s original children’s books. The richly saturated images and imaginative storytelling in Ringgold’s narratives offer important windows into her creative practice and the American story.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in On View: Encounters with the Photographic

July 4 - October 12, 2025

Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Over the summer, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst is dedicating an extensive exhibition to its significant photographic holdings. With a selection of around 250 works by more than 60 artists from the past hundred years up to the present day, this overview traces the developments in the photographic collections at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen since their creation.

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