Reception: February 23

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This is a project that explores personal interpretations, memories, and emotions associated with your cultural identity. Our goal is to inspire a dialogue that celebrates our diverse student body through interactive displays.

February 12 - February 23

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 142, UCSD

Artist Walkthrough: February 24, 2:00 p.m.

January 20 - February 25, 2024

Two Rooms, La Jolla CA

Two Rooms is an artist-run gallery and project space, founded in 2023 by Lizzie Zelter. Adjacent to her studio in San Diego, CA, Two Rooms was born out of a desire for informal and experimental artistic exploration and community in the San Diego/Tijuana bi-national region.

Reception: February 24, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 24 - June 23, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, artist and UC San Diego Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture. While Yoldas has shown extensively in Europe for nearly two decades, this show will be Yoldas’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

February 24, 2024

Lang Books, San Diego CA

Lisa Lapinski will be in conversation with San Diego-based artist at UCSD faculty Nicole Miller about Lisa’s new publication. Lisa Lapinski is an artist based in Houston and an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Rice University. Lapinski's new book, Miss Swiss, is her most comprehensive monograph to date.

February 26, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

In this talk, Ramírez will set forth an introduction to brown artistic practices that put neo-colonial and liberal reason in crisis. Furthermore, he seeks to think about the paradoxical relationship between contemporary art and indigeneity as a creative entanglement that reshapes the repertoires of art history and museum collections. Pablo José Ramírez is an author and curator at the Hammer Museum.

March 1, 2024

Via Zoom

Association for Asian Studies, Seattle WA

Jae Hwan Lim presents a panel entitled "Why Fetishize Social Practice" as part of the session "Art, Social Engagement, and Activism in South Korea."

March 1, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering, SME 149, UCSD

The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.

March 2, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Facility & SME Gallery, UC San Diego

This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 20 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.

Reception: March 2, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 2 - May 25, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.

March 5, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

This talk will address photographer John Thomson's (1837-1921) reproductions and imitations of the fanciful and fictive export image, and his engagement with the imagined Chinese artist. Roberta Wue is associate professor of Art History and director of the PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland

A group exhibition featuring work by eight contemporary artists – Dalziel + Scullion, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrew Mackenzie, Naomi Mcintosh, Katie Paterson and Hanna Tuulikki. Together, they explore the relationship between people and the natural environment using a variety of media and approaches. Some of the works reflect on current ecological issues, others explore our fragile coexistence with nature and capture its beauty.

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series—such as her experimental story quilts, renowned painting series American People and Black Light, soft sculptures, performance objects, and ephemera related to her activist work—the exhibition examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change.

September 22, 2023 - March 2, 2024

Visual Arts Center, Austin TX

The possibilities, limitations, and responsibilities that come with instructing both humans and computers how to see stand at the core of A Well-trained Eye. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists who explore issues such as surveillance, classification, and categorical thinking in relation to AI technologies, looking closely at the biases that underlie data collection and analysis. 

January 13 - March 3, 2024

Sparks Gallery, San Diego CA

Tiffany Bociek’s solo exhibition, Enduring Exuberance, consists of three series that were born from the artist’s internal exploration of her past, her present state of being, and a vision for her future self. Created through encaustic (wax) painting, the exhibition underscores several states of being: well-being, challenge, chaos, and transformation.

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.