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UG Vis147A class exhibition Bits & Bops

Reception: June 4, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 3 - June 5, 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Students develop artworks and installations that utilize digital electronics. Techniques in digital electronic construction and computer interfacing for interactive control of sound, lighting, and electromechanics. Construction of devices that responsively adapt artworks to conditions involving viewer participation, space activation, machine intelligence.

UG Studio Honors exhibition Sonder

Reception: June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 2 - June 4, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Sonder is a collective exhibition by the 2025 Studio Art Honors cohort, which explores the profound realization that every individual leads a life as complex and rich as one's own. This exhibition showcases distinct, thoughtfully developed works that reflect the unique perspectives and artistic niches of each honors student, cultivated over the past two academic quarters.

Allison O. Evans PhD dissertation exhibition The Solar Archive Project

Reception: June 7, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.


June 4 - June 7, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.


Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

The Solar Archive Project is a PhD dissertation exhibition that explores the instability (and indeterminacy) of the photographic archive. In this project, sunlight exists as an agent in the creation of its own record—both chemically and physically—bleaching, darkening, and affecting the archival materials subject to its radiation. As part of the exhibition, there will be screenings of Blind Spot, an experimental 16mm film that centers on the history and practice of sungazing.

MFA graduate John Singletary exhibition Sun Goin' Down

Reception: June 6, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 6 - June 25, 2025

Oolong Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Singletary’s painting practice delves into memory and myth. Drawing from Biblical and Classical tales, Southern folklore, his family’s spiritual lineage, and the subconscious, the artist channels a visual language steeped in longing, pain, and transformation. His work explores themes of death, love, and fear, and reanimates the sacred and the subconscious through ritualized technique and iconographic reference.

UG Speculative Design Senior exhibition The Last Planet

Reception: June 9, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 9 - June 13, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

The Last Planet explores molecular to galactic provocations of life on Earth and elsewhere. Toying with radical botany, cosmic masterplanning, non-fiction science fiction, collective madness, sentient and diseased architecture, and artificial alchemy, few questions go unasked in this eclectic exhibition—the mic-drop for our graduating Speculative Design provocateurs. Food and drinks will be served.

UG Senior ICAM exhibition The Internet Can't Archive This Feeling

Reception: June 10, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

June 11 - June 12, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Presented by senior ICAM students, this exhibition showcases their capstone projects of a wide range of works–from interactive installations and games to sound, video, and experimental media. Each project merges art and technology to explore a variety of themes and unique perspectives developed over two quarters.

UG group exhibition If Only You Knew

Reception: June 11, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 12, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Closing: June 13, 6:00 p.m.

Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Step into a space where fear is forgotten and creation runs wild. If Only You Knew is a student art exhibition that invites you to witness what happens when artists let go of expectations and lean into vulnerability, curiosity, and raw expression. You might just leave seeing art, and yourself, a little differently.

MFA alum Matt Savitsky exhibition LA TIME

Reception: June 13, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

June 10 - June 21, 2025

Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

Started in 2021, this project merges experimental theater and public performance to ask what it means to belong to a public. Alongside different groups of performers, I repurposed journalistic imagery to develop site-specific performances across Los Angeles, blending collective memory with the everyday cityscape.

PhD student Joe Riley receives Getty Fellowship

The GRI Getty Scholars Program proudly announces the recipients of the 2025/2026 fellowship cycle, including scholars and arts professionals from around the world who will be in residence exploring the theme of Repair. This timely topic invites critical engagement with a range of art and cultural forms across disciplines, geographies, and historical periods.

UG Senior ICAM projects online

Kamil Gallery Online

Presented by senior ICAM students, this exhibition showcases their capstone projects of a wide range of works–from interactive installations and games to sound, video, and experimental media. Each project merges art and technology to explore a variety of themes and unique perspectives developed over two quarters.

PhD student Hande Sever exhibition Take off your eyes

May 22 - August 10, 2025

REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

Hande Sever explores cultural and political archives by excavating texts and images that shape historical narratives. Often drawing from her own family’s history of persecution, her work examines the intersection of personal and collective memory, particularly in the context of military violence, surveillance, and censorship. Take off your eyes presents two bodies of work rooted in Southern California collections.

MFA students Nube Hawk Cruz, Xelestial Moreno-Luz, BA alum Kiko Thomas in SoCal MFA 2025

May 31 - June 27, 2025

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

Claremont Graduate University's Art Department is pleased to invite you to the SoCal MFA regional group exhibition. SoCal MFA is a juried exhibition of emerging graduate student artists from the region's vibrant MFA community.

MFA graduates Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle Devivo, Moe Penders Ramos in Time Trafficking.

May 31 - June 22, 2025

Persons Unknown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collective imagination is constantly pulled to an immediate future by the media and mainstream discourses with their emphasis on innovation and creativity, the promises and dangers of artificial intelligence and space travel, and the imminence of an ecological collapse that feels all too present.

PhD student Hande Sever in Unfinished past: return, keep, or...?

From May 9, 2025

Wereld Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Increasingly, the question is being asked whether museums should return collections to their countries of origin. Politicians, activists and communities from former European colonies advocate returning objects to their countries of origin. Museums themselves are also asking critical questions: how did these objects end up in their collections? And who do they actually belong to? 

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Border Craft

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

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.

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