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MFA & BA aluMFA & BA alumni contributed on film Dream Team, premiere screenings

November 27, 5:00 p.m.

Digital Gym, San Diego CA

Dream Team is directed by UCSD Media Teaching Lab staff member Lev Kalman, with MFA alumni Alexis Hithe (Assistant Director), John Dombroski (Sound Designer), Sam Wohl (VFX Coordinator), and BA alum Ryan Bradford (Gaffer). In this absurdist homage to 90's basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. A post-modern, soft-core fever dream.

PhD student Doreen Ríos co-curated online exhibition Domo Lleno + RealMix 0.4

November 27, 2024 - January 27, 2025

Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes, Bogotá Colombia

RealMix 0.4 brings together mixed-reality proposals by international and Latin American artists, curated by Asher Remy-Toledo and Doreen Ríos. Featured artists include Elder Tobar, Daniel Jiménez and Nicolás Romero (Trvshologrvm), Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Luis Enrique Zela Koort, Malitzin Cortes, Mattia Casalegno, Jiatong Yao, and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.

UG VIS 108 class exhibition Beyond Now: Near Futures

Reception: December 5, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville B201, UC San Diego

Students were tasked with creating original new works of any medium that illustrate their vision for the “near future” – warts and all. Radical climate disturbance, AI and personal identity, dystopia and utopia, and the relation of technology to human connection are some themes revealed in their work.

UG VIS 80 class exhibition

Reception: December 5, 6:30 - 8:20 p.m.

Performances begin at 7:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Featuring a diverse array of media, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. The exhibition invites viewers to engage with both conventional and experimental materials. Many works build on earlier explorations, serving as extensions or refinements of concepts developed throughout the quarter.

MFA alum Susan Mogul virtual talk & screening

December 5, 4:00 p.m. PST

Media Burn Archive

Screening and discussion with pioneering video artist Susan Mogul, moderated by scholar and filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz. The screening will include selections of Mogul’s foundational early videos – essential parts of the feminist video canon – and more recent innovative work.

MFA student Jamil Baldwin, MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in Structures of Feeling

Reception: December 6, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

December 6 - December 22, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

The works in this exhibition challenge us to find other ways to talk about photography and the problem of interpretation. Together they acknowledge, explore and trouble cultural genealogies as well as systems of value, familial and otherwise, both locally and globally.

PhD alum Amanda Cachia receives National Arts and Disability Award

Creative Australia

Creative Australia has announced the eleven artists to receive 2024 Creative Australia Awards. The awards proudly include the National Arts and Disability Awards, celebrating the contributions of artists to their fields and the cultural life of the nation. Each of the recipients contributes their unique voice to a cultural story. 

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems honored in Under the Oculus gala

Guggenheim New York

On the evening of November 14, the Guggenheim New York celebrated its 2024 gala, Under the Oculus: A Celebration of Visionaries. The event honored Jack and Susy Wadsworth as well as artist Carrie Mae Weems for their vital roles in advancing the institution’s initiatives.

MFA alum Guillermo Estrada in Across All Terrain, Land, & the Landscape

November 14 - December 10, 2024

Steppling Gallery, SDSU Imperial Valley CA

The exhibition engages with the many facets of land and terrain, exploring how landscapes are shaped by natural, human, and cosmic forces.Through paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, and photography, the artists in Across All Terrain, Land, & the Landscape present contrasting and paradoxical views on our interpretation and interactions with the land.

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

Lecturer Josh Tonies exhibition From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure

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.

MFA alum Suzanne Wright exhibition The Alchemy of Equals

October 30 - December 8, 2024  

Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn NY

Through this new body of work, Wright continues to explore feminism reimagining historical, architectural, and spiritual symbols, calling for transformative perspectives on gender, power, and the alchemical potential within art.

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