Reception: January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 9 - February 8, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows. Los Angeles-based curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos worked as the Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition, where she conducted studio visits with the cohort and devised the exhibition’s title and theme.

January 10 - March 1, 2025

Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.

Reception: January 11, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 11 - February 15, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

For this exhibition, a new body of sculptures was created over the last year in addition to a portion of her ongoing series Pacific View Studies and Broken Garages, each a group of several dozen small deadpan black and white ink and graphite drawings of garage doors that conjure the work of the New Topographics photographers of the 1970s. 

Reception: January 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 11 - February 8, 2025

Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA

Midnight Gardens brings together a group of artists exploring landscapes, still lifes, and botanical scenes shrouded in the quiet mystery of night. The interplay of shadow and subtle light charges these nocturnal scenes with a sense of intrigue, as the night itself becomes a transformative force, revealing hidden layers of meaning and new possibilities.

January 13 - 17, 2025

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

DILATION( )/INTERSTITIUM is a durational sub/merging of light movement, & image. in this study, dancer & mfa candidate erika roos considers how the fluidity & disintegration of time shape the in-betweenness of bodily forms. 

January 13 - 17, 2025

Reception Thursday evening

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Multimedia work considering the spaces we occupy, move through, and share, what it means to be a neighbor and the materials that build our environments.

January 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

First year MFAs in the Department of Literature Fiona Martinez, Sarah Mullen, Georgia Wright, and Klytie Xu will read their work in connection with the exhibition I am sending you love from the future. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows.

Reception: January 18, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 21 - January 29, 2025

CSULB School of Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA

California State University, Long Beach is thrilled to announce the 20th Annual Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA), presented by the School of Art graduate students! This milestone exhibition celebrates two decades of showcasing exceptional work by MFA students from graduate programs across Southern California.

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.

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.

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.

December 14, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA

Supporting the farewell programming for the Hill Street Country Club's closing in Oceanside, artist Marisa DeLuca will be holding a solo exhibition reflecting on catastrophic change in the region. Her body of work examines time, memory, and the socioeconomic implications of cultural erasure through oil paintings and installation.

December 7, 2024 - January 18, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film. 

October 12, 2024 - January 18, 2025

The FRONT Arte y Cultura, San Ysidro, CA

This solo-exhibition assembles recent site specific works by Cognate Collective that consider the radical potentials of sound and collaboration when practiced as cursi radical – an aesthetics of proximity, vulnerability and collective care. The exhibition brings attention to historical and ongoing strategies local communities have developed to facilitate movement and sustain connection across borders.

September 21, 2024 - January 19, 2025

San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA

As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art and Science Collide, the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program presents a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team 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.

October 6, 2023 - January 19, 2025

Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK

Examining ideas of interconnectedness, caretaking, and listening—between humans, land, plants, and animals—the works on view invite reflection, encourage action, and seek to cultivate optimism in the face of challenge.