February 6 - February 8, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego, CA

Project [BLANK]’s fourth-annual exhibition of experimental art and music, featuring dozens of visual artists, filmmakers, sound and performance artists, composers, and musicians. This three-day, community-based event will include new works, world premieres, and thought-provoking performances featuring some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California.

February 7, 9:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

In-Person and on Zoom

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

The Getty Research Institute hosts the 7th annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into 3 sessions, the symposium includes 9 individual presentations, moderated panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

February 4 - February 7, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Gallery exhibition of artworks by Nicole Johnson. Nicole's work aims to capture sentimental and often poignant moments with the use of black and white values in her charcoal drawings. She uses feminine subjects to convey ideas of nostalgia, vulnerability, and care for those represented in her works. 

Reception: February 7, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

February 8 - May 11, 2025

Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom

Danielle Dean’s work spans video, painting, installation, social practice and performance. Drawing on archival records, film and advertising, Dean’s practice interrogates how individuals are shaped by commercial narratives and explores historical and contemporary representations of labour, racialised identity and popular culture.

Reception: February 8, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 8 - April 5, 2025

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, CA

The Intimacies Between Continents brings together the work of Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Danielle Dean, and Africanus Okokon — three contemporary artists who work across video, sculpture, and installation to unearth the often forgotten material traces of the historical processes that produced global capitalism. 

Reception: February 8, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 8 - March 7, 2025

CCS Art Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA

Small marks and individual units combine to build a landscape and architecture greater than its own. The exhibition brings together the distinctive work of two artists, Melinda Braathen and Liz Stringer, each offering a unique perspective on the delicate interplay between the individual and the collective.

February 10, 5:00 - 6:20 p.m.

B-202 Mandeville Center, UC San Diego

Carmen Winant is a Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University, where she is the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art, and an affiliated faculty member in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. Winant’s work poses a challenge to the ways that we understand women’s power, pleasure, labor, healing, and liberation to function, querying the aesthetic and political legacy of second-wave feminism.

February 10, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, CA

Superradiance. Embodying Earth is a multiscreen video and sound installation by artists Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstader. Inspired by conversations between the artists and Scripps researchers, this work explores the complex interactions between land, ocean and atmosphere that shape our living planet by interweaving dance, poetry, music and generative imagery with artificial intelligence.

Reception: February 11, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

February 11 - February 14, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

In our lives, we form relationships in various ways, and these connections, whether positive or negative, inevitably affect each of us. Through this exhibition, I aim to explore the emotional complexities, setbacks, and growth that emerge from the family dynamic.

February 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Printed Matter, New York City, NY 

A conversation on art history’s assessment of itself in the present moment. Art’s relationship to different publics—whether through biennial exhibitions that consolidate national and regional identities, by using materials to create new planetary relationships, or even the basic questions of who has access to art exhibitions—has created mounting tensions in how to do and see art history today.

January 27 - March 02, 2025

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

This multidisciplinary exhibition explores the intersection of art, ecology, and technology, reflecting on the site’s layered history and envisioning its future. From playful interventions and dystopian meditations to utopian visions of renewal, the works on display invite visitors to confront critical environmental questions.

By appointment

Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

In their film Street Angel, Michelle Sui offers a poetic and immersive exploration of Los Angeles' Chinatown district, blending fiction and documentary. The film reveals the split between the stereotypes imposed by Hollywood and the historical and cultural reality of Chinatown for the Chinese diaspora.

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.

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.

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.

September 25, 2024 - February 9, 2025

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

This dynamic showcase brings together visual art, live performance, music, a range of archival materials, and a multi-screen video installation drawn from recordings of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) repertory to explore the full range of Ailey’s personal and creative life. 

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.