COMING UP

UG student Aditya Venkatesh exhibition Sutured Myths, Unvarnished

Reception: January 22, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 22 - 24, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Donna Haraway's concept of the tentacular thinking rejects the notion of an Anthropocene dominated by human existence, inviting us to think about how non-human forces are interconnected in ways that are beyond human control.

MFA alum Emily Greenberg screening Latent Visions

January 23, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

CALIT2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

Qualcomm Institute’s IDEAS series continues with “Latent Visions”, three short films by Emily Greenberg. Emily Greenberg is a media artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work examines the fictions we mistake for realities and the realities we mistake for fictions.

Lecturer/MFA alum Robert Twomey, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith AI theater broadcast Fluids, Feathers & Flight: Codex ex Machina

January 23, 5:30 p.m.

Sheldon Museum of Art, Listen here

A performance event inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's boundary-pushing curiosity about wind, birds and flying machines, featuring an original radio theater production co-created by OLLI at UNL members and generative AI under the guidance of artists Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey, and their team of artists, researchers and students.

PhD alum Paloma Checa-Gismero conversation & book signing

January 23, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia / Online

Paloma Checa-Gismero, author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global, is joined by leading historians of contemporary and Latin American art Tatiana Flores and Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide to unpack how contemporary art biennials became the defining events of the global art world in the 20th century.

MFA student Maddie Butler in Backtrack

Reception: January 25, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

two rooms, La Jolla, CA

Two Rooms is proud to present Backtrack, a two-person exhibition featuring Maddie Butler and Enrique Ciapara. Through assemblage and painting, Butler and Ciapara mediate images of everyday experiences into forms that reveal the imperfections of the hand.

MFA student Coralys Carter in brand new

Reception: January 25, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

January 25 - March 1, 2025

LOS/NR, La Jolla, CA

A group show for the new year about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche - a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one's choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened.

Professor Brian Cross screening Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos

January 26, 6:00 p.m.

De La Playa Records & Leisure, Los Angeles, CA

Produced by local and international legends, B+ and Eric Coleman, and featuring a pantheon of Los Angeles DJ/producers. Screening will start at 6pm sharp and will be followed by Q&A and celebration. This event will also feature an international record market, Brazilian food & drink, live screen printing and so much more.

MFA student Emily Greenberg book launch for Alternative Facts

January 28, 7:00 p.m.

WORD, Brooklyn NY

Join Emily Greenberg for the East Coast launch of her debut collection of short stories, Alternative Facts! The event will include a reading, Q&A, and book signing. Greenberg will be in conversation with author Nathaniel Kressen. The book tour will continue through March to Philadelphia, Belmont, Memphis, Los Angeles, and La Jolla. 

MFA student Andrew Wharton 2nd year exhibition Chimera

Reception: January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 27 - 31, 2025, by appointment

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Chimera is an exhibition using AI and surveillance to explore Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Trailcam Imagery, and the potential to reverse the gaze in predator/prey and creator/creation relationships.

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres solo exhibition Zonas de Colaboración

Reception: January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 31 - March 16, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

The first major solo exhibition in New York of this seminal post-Mexican, neo-American artist, it highlights new directions in his groundbreaking practice. A leading figure in the Mexican and Latinx artistic communities, Ortiz-Torres’s spectacular deconstruction of styles, dislocation of paradigms of identity, and creation of new forms of political aesthetics offers multiple perspectives on the fluidity of culture.

Professor Danielle Dean in The Intimacies Between Continents

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. 

Professor Danielle Dean solo exhibition This could all be yours!

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.

MFA student Maddie Butler interview

San Diego Union Tribune

"A lot of people really jump on the technology aspect of the work, which I get and that's a big aspect of it, but I think at its heart, my work is about human relationships and how we interact and relate to and absorb one another," Butler says. "The technology has become more and more prominent, because that's more and more how we're communicating with one another and sharing ourselves."

MFA in Visual Arts students send love from the future

UCSD Guardian

Review of the MFA Preview Exhibition "I am sending you love from the future." Through exploring family histories and personal stories, the interdisciplinary artworks by UCSD’s MFA in visual arts students shine with hope within the fast approaching technological future at the Mandeville Art Gallery.

MFA alum Rayyane Tabet awarded Trellis Art Fund grant

ArtForum

The Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based nonprofit that launched in February 2024 with a $15.8 million endowment and the aim of supporting individual artists through unrestricted grants, has revealed a novel annual $420,000 initiative, the Stepping Stone grants. Twenty-one artists will each receive an unrestricted award of $20,000.

PhD student Doreen Ríos curated online exhibition Postborder (code)pendecy

January 21 - Ongoing

Rhizome x ISLAA, New York, NY

On January 21 at 7pm, join us at The Institute For Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) for a conversation about digital artworks that explore the Mexico/US border. This event marks the launch of Post-border (code)pendency, a new online exhibition curated by Doreen Ríos for Rhizome’s ArtBase Anthologies series.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

MFA preview exhibition I am sending you love from the future

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.

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 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 Emerita Anya Gallaccio exhibition Preserve

September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Turner Contemporary, Margate UK

Anya Gallaccio: preserve is the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio. The exhibition spans three decades of Gallaccio’s radical practice, restaging several iconic sculptures in addition to a new site-specific commission. It reveals the artist’s consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment by presenting works that connect with Kent’s natural heritage.

PhD student Doreen Ríos co-curated online exhibition Domo Lleno + RealMix 0.4

November 27, 2024 - January 27, 2025

Instituto Distrital de las Artes - Idartes, Bogotá Colombia

RealMix 0.4 brings together mixed-reality proposals by international and Latin American artists, curated by Asher Remy-Toledo and Doreen Ríos. Featured artists include Elder Tobar, Daniel Jiménez and Nicolás Romero (Trvshologrvm), Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Luis Enrique Zela Koort, Malitzin Cortes, Mattia Casalegno, Jiatong Yao, and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.

MFA students Aambr Newsome, Coralys Carter, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Maddie Butler in GLAMFA 2025

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.

MFA alumni Arlene Mejorado, Carrie Mae Weems in Diaries of Home

November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Diaries of Home is an exhibition of works by twelve women and nonbinary artists who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.The artists challenge documentary photography by pushing it into conceptual, performative, and theatrical realms. They probe preconceptions about domestic, familial, and communal spaces in the United States, which are often considered feminine spheres.

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