COMING UP

Emily Greenberg MFA thesis exhibition Latent Visions

Reception: November 21, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

November 18 - November 22, 2024

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Latent Visions features two short films that explore generative artificial intelligence as a subject and medium. They investigate what it means to be human in a world increasingly mediated by simulations and representations, reflecting on the harms generative AI poses to one’s sense of self.

UG Vis180 class exhibition You Earned It

Reception: November 21, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 22, 25, 26, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This is a studio art course for the advanced visual arts major, instructed by Geoffroy Tobe. After guided assignments, emphasis is on self-directed projects and portfolio development. This interdisciplinary course may focus on painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, video, photography, and new media.

Seaways: Embodied Pacific Project

November 22, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

A PST ART + Science Collide Embodied Pacific Project event featuring screenings and panels navigating Indigenous wayfinding across water, walls, and wildfire. Embodied Pacific features projects by 30 artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites, and archives in SoCal and the Pacific Islands. They invite immersive engagement in oceanography, Indigenous design, and critical craft through exhibitions, workshops, and programs at our six venues.

Future Gardens as Eco-Cultural Collaborations

November 23, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The Harrisons describe their first Future Garden, the Garden of Hot Winds and Warm Rains (1995), proposed for a museum in Bonn as “...a multi-layered story told with artifacts, media events, texts, and living materials, which all together engage the probable Greenhouse future directly. Join us for a panel discussion with people who have collaborated with the Harrisons on Future Gardens including current on the ground proposals.

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

November 22-27, 2024

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.

UG student Tomris Karaismailoglu exhibition I wish you were dead.

November 25 - November 27, 2024

Closing Reception: November 27, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

An exhibition on grief, shame and self-hatred in the aftermath of a breakup. bring your own baggage. Presented with the support of Professor dean erdmann.

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.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell solo exhibition Currents 124

October 25, 2024 - March 9, 2025

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO

In their first solo museum exhibition, Campbell reflects on material histories, archival imagery, and abstraction in a subtle evocation of the Philippine landscape and colonial extraction. Rooted in familial history and the underloved, these new works in blown glass, handmade paper, digital collages, and video evocatively trace the ways in which nature, U.S. colonization of the Philippines, and abstraction are intertwined.

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

Professor Memo Akten Boundaries at Venice Biennale

April 20 - November 24, 2024

Venice Biennale, Italy

The Vanhaerents Art Collection is holding it’s third exhibition on the occassion of 60th Venice Biennale. Entitled ‘Boundaries’ which will showcase a digital work that Memo Akten has made on commission for the Vanhaerents Art Collection.

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