COMING UP

Professor Janelle Iglesias exhibition Las Hermanas Iglesias: wontloversrevoltnow

Reception: August 16, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

August 16 - December 27, 2025

ICA San Diego North, Encinitas, CA

Spanning the entire ICA / North campus, wontloversrevoltnow invites visitors into a conversation about care and community. Through a combination of existing work and new projects created specifically for this exhibition, Las Hermanas Iglesias generously weave their own navigations of loss, motherhood and current events into works that speak to how we value, define, and provide caregiving.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier published Living Surfaces (review)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology

Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka's Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media offers a way to understand the contemporary urge to digitize and datafy the planet, and the colonial and military gains to be had from the production of these renderings.

MFA students Sophia Cleary, Andrew Wharton in everything and anything

August 1 - September 13, 2025

Level of Service/Not Required, La Jolla, CA

This is a show about the fluff that is filling and covering the story structures of our lives, each step, each level. Participating artists are: Sophia Cleary, Dove Cochrane, Adele Gaburo, April Rose, Louise Russell, and Andrew Warthon.

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.

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin in More is More: Reinventing Photography Beyond the Frame

August 2, 2025 - January 18, 2026

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

The exhibition presents singular works of art created from multiple photographs. Set in the experimental time of the mid-1960s to 1980s, the exhibition features artists who deconstructed, reconstructed, and multiplied photographs, playfully pushing photography’s physical boundaries and conceptual limits.

ICAM seniors online exhibition

Electric Soup

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.

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 Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition POSITIONER

May 31 - Aurgust 9, 2025

Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA

Paul Mpagi Sepuya creates photographs that weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium.

MFA alum Kirstyn Hom Present Tense

July 11 - August 9, 2025

Two Rooms, San Diego, CA

Working across textile, painting, and book arts, Hom and Rubottom engage in multi-generational dialogues with relatives from Guangdong, China, and Vienna, Austria. Both artists reinvigorate diasporic materials, forms, and phrases from the prior century, bringing them into a contemporary context to form new site-specific tapestries and libraries.

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.

Professor Danielle Dean in Summer Screening Program

July 9 - August 15, 2025

47 Canal, New York, NY

Our inaugural Summer Screening Program features eight artist selected moving image works that will be on view every day during gallery hours for the run of the exhibition. Martin Beck, Danielle Dean, Elle Pérez, and Cici Wu have each invited another guest artist to contribute work to the program alongside their own.

MFA alum & former Lecturer Jean Lowe Down with the Hierarchy

July 12 - August 16, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

BEST PRACTICE is very excited to announce a collaborative exhibition of the work of Encinitas-based artist Jean Lowe and Mexicali-based graffiti artist Abraham Razo (Rancholo/DHEF) with a contribution from MFA alum & Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel. Down with the Hierarchy! is an installation exploring the overlaps and connections between French period decoration, Persian carpet design, and street art.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin in exhibition Somewhere in Between

July 26 - August 16, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Curated by Moshonda Tifrere as an exploration of dimensionality, the exhibition weaves together a combination of narrative and abstract paintings and ceramic sculpture that can be seen as expressive portals to intangible realms and metaphysical landscapes. The show features six artists: Taylor Chapin, Megan Gabrielle, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Victor Ubah, Elizabeth Waggett, and Nathan Wong.

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