COMING UP

Professor Brian Cross screenings and talk ...Like No One is Watching

June 19, 7:30 p.m.

2220 Arts and Archives, Los Angeles, CA

Legendary production house Mochilla presents …like no one is watching… unseen films and unheard music. Films curated by photographer/filmmaker B+ (Brian Cross) and conversation with B+, Harmony Holliday, Mychal Odum and Sam Lemontayne. Followed by DJ sets by DJ Nuts (Cultura Copia), Waajeed (Dirt Wreck), Cut Chemist (Stable Sound), Francesca Harding (KCRW) and Carol Ueno (SP).

Professor Danielle Dean screening Hemel, talk with Cauleen Smith

June 20, 3:00 p.m.

MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Danielle Dean’s film is a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, England, where she was raised, and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history. The work’s central reference is a 1957 sci-fi horror B-movie shot in town about the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds of residents and endangers life with a toxic black slime. Danielle Dean will be present for a post-screening conversation with Cauleen Smith.

MFA student Nube Hawk Cruz guided art walk A Walk with Yáamay

June 20, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Buena Vista Lagoon, Oceanside, CA

Experience a transformative journey with A Walk with Yáamay, a series of free, site-specific guided “art walks” presented by New Village Arts. Led by a council of Indigenous artists and curators, these immersive tours blend natural exploration with live poetry, song, visual art, and performance.

Professor Janell Iglesias in Public Art Fund exhibition Between Tides

Reception: June 27, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

June 27 - August 22, 2026

Rockaway Beach 67, Queens, NY

Between Tides brings together six artists—Moko Fukuyama, Ilana Harris-Babou, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Carlos H. Matos, Amalia Pica, and the collective SUPERFLEX—to rethink ping-pong tables as playable sculptures. These works invite beach-goers to approach the game in unexpected ways, transforming a familiar activity into a space for experimentation and new connections.

VIS 110i online exhibition Performing for the Camera

Kamil Gallery Online

This course focuses on creating performance art pieces produced for camera. At the close of the quarter, students often reveal that they not only have learned how they can express ideas and experiences through performance art, but that they have learned a good deal about themselves in the process.

BA alum Farshid Bazmandegan in exhibition Field Notes on Memory

June 6 - August 16, 2026

California Center for the Arts, Esconcido, CA

Developed through the Museum’s In Studio Artist Residency program, the exhibition approaches landscape as a site where memory takes shape through earth, architecture, domestic objects, sound, and archival research. The artists draw from family histories, ancestral practices, and experiences of migration and exile, creating environments where personal memory and collective history remain closely intertwined.

PhD student Leila Abdelrazaq in exhibition The Amplification Project: Women Artists of The Arab Diaspora

June 13 - September 13, 2026

Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI

This exhibition emerges from The Amplification Project, a living, crowd-sourced digital archive documenting art shaped by forced migration, displacement, and cultural survival. Focusing on contemporary Arab women artists connected to Detroit, it explores migration, inheritance, and life between cultural geographies.

ICAM online exhibitions Echo•Location & The Interactables

Kamil Gallery Online

The Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, and cultural theory. The goals of the program are to prepare the next generation of artists who will be functioning in a computer-mediated culture.

ICAM Honors, instructed by Robert Twomey

Echo•Location, instructed by Ricardo Dominguez

The Interactables, instructed by Trish Stone

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Media Mesh exhibition Data Tales

June 3 - September 25, 2026

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Data Tales showcases datasets reimagined by guests and students of VIS 141B. Our students have used python coding to develop their visuals on the Media Mesh. The genre of visuals ranges from GEN Z humor to light-hearted work, as well as visuals that our society should reflect on. Our data visualizations are here to be your summer tales to tell.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Emerita Anya Gallaccio, PhD student Johnnie Chatman, MFA alum Allan Sekula in INSITE exhibition Erratic Fields

March 14 - June 28, 2026

Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA

These projects include recent INSITE commissions—ongoing explorations shaped by sustained research in the local landscape and ecologies—and works realized over two decades ago when site-specificity and border geopolitics occupied different positions within artistic practice and imagination.

BA alum Nick Lesley in The Color of Silence

June 6 - July 1, 2026

Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA

The exhibition explores the dynamic tension between silence and noise, using visual art, sound, and performance to examine how meaning is created through contrast. Curated by Francisco Eme, the exhibition brings together immersive and inter-disciplinary works that investigate silence not as emptiness, but as a powerful emotional and structural force. 

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