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MFA graduating cohort presents Sites of Blood and Water

CLOSING SOON!

July 29 - August 12, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Sites of Blood and Water, curated by beck haberstroh and Naomi Nadreau, will include artwork by Amir Saadiq, Arlene Mejorado, Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Jack Coventry, Lorena Ochoa, DIA PHANO Collective (Claire Anderson, Maria Mathioudakis and Grace Wardlaw), mika castañeda, Sabrina Piersol, and Wren Gardiner. The artists gathered in this exhibition engage in the hard work of negotiating belonging - to a nation, to a time, to a family, and to each other.

MFA alum Yasmine Kasem Artist Residency The Philosophers are Incoherent

Reception: August 12, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles CA

Yasmine K. Kasem will present, “The Philosophers are Incoherent.” A site-specific installation and collaborative activation featuring recent and new textile and fiber series which investigate intersections of identity, religion, love and conflict from the perspective of a Queer Egyptian and Muslim artist from the Midwest.

Prof. John C. Welchman at LA Art Book Fair

August 10 - August 13, 2023

Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles CA

Fair programming includes The Classroom, a space for artists, writers, designers, and publishers to spotlight new releases and discuss important themes in artists’ book publishing. Star Feliz, Harmony Holiday, La Pocha Nostra, Anuradha Vikram, and John C. Welchman are participating in this year’s Classroom, which was organized in collaboration with David Senior, Director of Library & Archives at SFMOMA.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold A Survey

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May 20 - August 12, 2023

Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles CA

The overview features artwork from the 1960s to the present demonstrating her career-spanning commitment to social justice and equity through a variety of media including oil paintings, tankas, soft sculptures, story quilts and prints.

MFA alum Blaise Tobia in Paul Jaray: the Rationality of the Streamline

April 28 - September 3, 2023

Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin Germany

Blaise Tobia photographed Ant Farm's famous "Cadillac Ranch" installation in Amarillo, Texas, in August of 1974 - on his way to begin graduate studies at UCSD. They were selected by curator Wolfgang Scheppe for inclusion in an exhibition about Paul Jaray - inventor of the automotive streamline.

MFA alum Hung Liu in Many Wests

July 28, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

This exhibition presents an opportunity to examine previous misconceptions, question racist clichés, and highlight the multiple communities and histories that continue to form this iconic region of the United States.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in A Movement in Every Direction

August 5, 2023 - March 3, 2024

California African American Museum, Los Angeles CA

Through the artists’ distinct and dynamic installations, A Movement in Every Direction reveals anew the spectrum of contexts that shaped the Great Migration and explores the ways in which it continues to reverberate today in both intimate and communal experiences.

Professors Anya Gallaccio, Janelle Iglesias, MFA alum Joe Yorty awarded San Diego Art Prize

San Diego Union Tribune

From Oct. 28, 2023, through Jan. 13, 2024, the four artists’ works will be showcased at the San Diego Central Library Gallery in an exhibition, curated by PhD alum Lara Bullock, senior civic art manager for the city of San Diego.

MFA alumni Isidro Pérez García, Doris Bitter, Asst. Prof. Janelle Iglesias awarded Individual Artist Fellowship

California Arts Council

The California Arts Council created the Individual Artists Fellowship (IAF) program to recognize, uplift, and celebrate the excellence of California artists and culture bearers practicing any art form with unrestricted grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.

MFA alum Maria Mathioudakis wins 1st prize at Athenaeum's Juried Show

California Arts Council

To further explore the notion of “post-Anthropocene humanism” raised in a recent Noema essay, I asked him to weigh in on the nature of human being and becoming when anthropogenesis and technogenesis are one and the same process.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in Adorned Self

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July 15 - August 12, 2023

Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles CA

The six emerging women artists grew up in the 1990s, an epoch characterized by multiculturalism, globalization, self-reference, environmentalism, and technological advances. 𝓐𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 explores ornamentation as an act, both outward and internal, that opens the self to enlivenment; how we fashion ourselves in order to attract others, make a statement, or express individuality.

Assistant Professor Memo Akten in Connect Me

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September 24, 2022 - August 13, 2023

Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark

The exhibition CONNECT ME focuses on our connections with the world. In a time of climate crisis, growing inequality, insecurity and loneliness, there is a need for new ways of connecting. Through the works on display, the exhibition explores how connections define who we are: Am I nature? Am I relationships? Am I technology?

UG alum Farshid Bazmandegan We Will Dance In The Garden Again

August 5 - September 9, 2023

Guest House, Inglewood CA

A reflection on ideas of displacement, home, and belonging as consequences of often-violent geopolitics, the exhibition sees the artists, Farshid Bazmandegan and Rachel Hakimian Emenaker, draw on history, archival materials, memory, and pop culture to translate their personal and political experiences through sculpture, painting, and installation.

Profs. Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Monique van Genderen in Perpetual Portrait

July 8 - August 18, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Focusing on artists who have made the portrait a central part of their practice, the exhibition brings together a multitude of approaches and perspectives by artists from different generations and cultural perspectives to situate our understanding of the genre into a new and complex framework.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell Ode to the Underloved

June 9 – August 19, 2023

Artists Space, New York NY

Allowing the architecture and other conditions of the gallery to create a choreography, Campbell’s filmic installation brilliantly pulls viewers into an embodied experience where they become actors in a kind of living theater, witnesses to complex histories.

MFA alumni Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems in American Gurl

June 24 - August 20, 2023

Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles CA

Womxn in Windows presents ‘American Gurl,’ an ongoing curatorial project that showcases video art, film, and performance to unpack and re-envision the American Dream through the lens of women. Co-curated by Zehra Zehra and Kilo Kish, this iteration of the American Gurl project takes its shape as a group film exhibition.

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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