COMING UP

Lecturer Yue Nakayama screening Looking for Love (and Job)

June 22 - June 23, 2024

CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night, Venice, Italy

Looking for Love (and Job) is featured in the Bridging East and West nomination at CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night in Venice. The protagonist, Fish, washes up on the shores of the Pacific Coast in search of Love. The Fish, an alien species, encounters a different species (Pigeons) looking for a Job. Using a variety of everyday anecdotes, this film explores migration, job security, and the structure of power and gender in contemporary society.

MFA alum Abdulhamid Kircher Rotting from Within

June 29 - August 31, 2024

carlier | gebauer, Berlin Germany

Rotting from Within is Abdulhamid Kircher’s first presentation of the eponymously titled body of work and the first exhibition of the artist at carlier | gebauer. The title captures a feeling which the artist describes as “the unearthing of my father and the generational trauma that exists within the patriarchs of my family; subsequently the task of uncovering my own self amidst the things passed down”.

Emeriti Professors Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard 

June 29, 2024 - January 1, 2025 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard marks the first standalone museum presentation of the fully realized indoor citrus grove conceived and designed in 1972 by artists and Emeriti Professors Helen Mayer Harrison (1927–2018) and Newton Harrison (1932–2022).

Professor Danielle Dean joins 2024 Skowhegan Resident Faculty Artists

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Resident Faculty Artists live on campus alongside the participants and the academic staff, who are also practicing artists. The structure of Skowhegan's program is provided by one-on-one studio visits with each of the resident artists, and through the series of lectures given by the faculty over the summer. Dean will present a Faculty Artist Lecture on June 24th at 7:30pm.

Professor Ceci Moss Awarded Rupert Residency

Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania

Dr. Ceci Moss is a resident at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania this summer, supported by a research grant from UCSD. At Rupert, she plans to conduct research for her second book project, ‘Mutual: Movement Building in the Arts’ which is an anthology of edited conversations with leading artists, curators, critics, activists and theorists that aims to plant seeds for paradigmatic changes within the art sector.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos column SCREENS: On Sabotage and Refusal in Latin American Art

The Brooklyn Rail

Latin America provides a unique perspective on our relationship with screens, echoing concerns of the Global North while also adding a distinct perspective. Screens, beyond being mere technological artifacts, also represent cultural and artistic forms with which we interact, create, and experience our world.

Professor Anya Gallaccio to Design London's First HIV/Aids Memorial

Artforum

Gallaccio, who is known for her spare, large-scale installations featuring organic matter, beat out a short list of four other London-based artists to secure the commission. Her winning proposal features the cross-section of a tree trunk, with some of its inner rings removed and displayed upright nearby.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in LA Times Article

Los Angeles Times

The article, titled "Queer photographers’ most radical act? Turning the lens on themselves," states "Queer photographers, in particular, have been on the vanguard of that movement, not only by capturing the world around them, but by turning their cameras back on themselves — a daring move in a disapproving world."

Professor Teddy Cruz in In the Shadow of the Wall

June 7 - August 18, 2024 

Kimball Art Center, Park City UT

Through site-specific, object-oriented, and community-engaged works, the artists in this group exhibition challenge stark divisions between people and nations, embracing the creativity capacity of multiple belongings. Upcoming Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga, is also included in the exhibition.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Pinar Yoldas Synaptic Sculpture

February 24 - June 23, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, artist and UC San Diego Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture. While Yoldas has shown extensively in Europe for nearly two decades, this show will be Yoldas’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Fragmented Bodies

April 5 - June 24

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres in Monumental Perspectives III

September 7, 2023 - June 30, 2024

LACMA x SNAPCHAT, Los Angeles CA

Monumental Perspectives brings together artists and technologists to create augmented reality monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region.

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