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Reception: April 25, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

April 22 - April 26, 2024

Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

open hours: monday 2-6pm, tuesday 5-7pm, wednesday 10am-2pm, thursday 6:30-8pm, friday 10am-2pm

Lillia Weissmuller UG Exhibition Ojo de Liebre

Reception: April 25, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

April 22 - April 26, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Ojo de Liebre is an examination of the relationship between the ocean and the process of healing from illness. Oil paint and graphite are used to convey the memory as a fluid form, shaping and reshaping to observation, creating an abstracted form of realism. 

Deanna Barahona MFA Thesis Exhibition ALL I CAN LEAVE YOU IS THIS GLITTER

April 19 - April 26, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

ALL I CAN LEAVE YOU IS THIS GLITTER refers to more than just material possession but the impression of memories and ephemerality. The exhibition responds to the maximalist visuals of a family party, and its "glitter" or remnants of identity carried through migration while settling in new places.

Jun!yi Min MFA Thesis Exhibition

I hope we wake to a body we love

April 19 - April 26, daily 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Jun! offers a critical sustainable approach to difficult endurance performances that confront death by offering a space where death, pain, love, and intimacy can coexist. In doing so, Jun! reframes endurance as a practice of waiting for a better future, a future where we can wake to a body that we love.

MFA alum Susan Mogul film survey

April 24 & April 25, 2024

Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Austria

Who is Susan Mogul? Part of the answer to this question can be found in the pioneering video artworks she made in the early 1970s, which took the form of a performative autobiography staged before the camera. Susan Mogul is a decidedly witty feminist with an engaging and expressive laugh whose work focuses on the process of mediated self-questioning.

Professor Janelle Iglesias How to Survive Artist Spotlight: Las Hermanas Iglesias

April 25, 1:00 p.m. PDT

In-person & Facebook Live

Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK

A series of talks with artists featured in How to Survive as they consider their practice in relation to climate change and care. This month’s session features sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, who have collaborated artistically as Las Hermanas Iglesias since 2005 alongside their individual studio practices rooted in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

PhD student Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres in The Nomadic Artist in the Chinese Diasporas Conference

April 25, 2:30 p.m. PDT

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Recent interdisciplinary scholarship has increasingly demonstrated the need to highlight the social heterogeneity of multiple Chinese diasporas instead of a singular Chinese diaspora.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim talk 20th Seoul Queer Parade, 2019: To Confront, To Be in Solidarity, To Express

April 25 - April 27, 2024

AAAS Conference, Seattle WA

As part of the panel "COLD WAR, HOT TAKES: UNFREEZING ASIAN SUBJECTS VENUE," Lim will present the talk at the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Lim examines the audiovisual, performative, and aesthetic dynamics from the “20th Seoul Queer Parade,” Korea’s one of the largest queer gatherings organized by the Seoul Queer Cultural Festival (SQCF) in 2019.

MFA alum Victor Castañeda H and UG alum Lissa Corona Server Host Not Found

April 26, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Harvest & Gather and Two Rooms, La Jolla CA

Through storytelling, Castañeda H explores the "non-body," the internal energy source inside us all. During Server Host Not Found, join Corona over Zoom for a mandatory all-hands meeting to discuss a new initiative promised to increase returns on investment, maximize productivity, minimize conflict, and boost morale.

MFA alum Ana Andrade Río de Agua Viva book talk with Professor Lorena Mostajo

April 26, 2:00 p.m. EDT

NY Art Book Fair, New York NY

Ana Andrade photographed the Tijuana River’s dramatic transformation and the increasingly endangered livelihoods of both the people and the non-human life forms in it. The artist will be joined by the publisher, Lorena Mostajo, to talk about the origins and challenges of this project in such a complex geopolitical environment as well as the stories derived from her time at the river.

UG student James DeLisio screening Smoke Signals

April 27, 1:15 p.m.

NFFTY, Seattle WA

The making of Smoke Signals was supported by a grant from the Russell Foundation. It will be screened in the 17th National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

Careers in Animation and Video Games

April 27, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Hear from a panel of professionals working in the animation, film and video game industry, sharing insight on careers in these fields. Lead by UC San Diego alumnus and animator Marty Davis, panelists will discuss their work and career path, sharing insight, advice and answering questions from the audience.

Professor Michael Trigilio screening and talk Five Songs of Magic, Milk, Space

April 27, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Medium Photo, San Diego CA

Medium’s Big Night is a community gathering and fundraiser for Medium Photo. Attendees will enjoy the premier of a new video work by UCSD professor Michael Trigilio, complimentary drinks, catering, a DJ spinning photography-inspired music, and a projection of classic films about photography.

UG alum Justin McHugh if i could write your name in the sky, i would

April 28 - September, 2024

Art Produce, San Diego CA

Justin A. McHugh’s if i could write your name in the sky, i would is a triptych analog video installation utilizing the public window spaces at Art Produce. The installation will be activated at events throughout the year where the public will be asked to contribute text and interact directly with the creation process.

UG alum Nikki Johnson Computing in the Arts Lecture Series

April 29, 5:00 p.m.

Mosaic 113, UC San Diego

Nikki Johnson is a new media artist and software engineer from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from University of California San Diego with a Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Computing & The Arts. She is now working with Sphere Entertainment Co. as a Software Engineer building real-time tools and content for Sphere in Las Vegas.

Lecturer Dino Dinco in Art & Sport

May 1 - November 1, 2024

Boulodrome du Douaisis, Sin-le-Noble France

Art & Sport are 13 exhibitions and aesthetic experiences, across 13 regions of France and in unexpected places! Drawing on the collections of the 22 Regional Contemporary Art Funds of France , Art & Sport presents varied works ranging from video to sculpture, in unusual and sporting locations such as stadiums, swimming pools or skate parks.

Chanell Stone MFA Thesis Exhibition Undulation of a Rupture

Reception: May 4, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

May 4 - May 10, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Chanell Stone writes, “Driven by a profound yearning to trace, locate and connect with my ancestral origins and beginnings, I devoted myself to making in the Deep South – in what felt like a familiar first and soon became a multi-year dance between returning while arriving. I share with you all my leavings, encounters and exchanges with this land.”

Carmen Winant: Guest Speaker Series

May 7, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.


SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient.

PhD alum Paloma Checa-Gismero book Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global

Duke University Press

Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Durham: Duke University Press, 2024), book by PhD Alumn Paloma Checa-Gismero (Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College), is now available for pre-order, with an estimated release date of August 6, 2024. You can use code E24CHGSM for a 30% discount when pre-ordering/purchasing the book at the link in the text and image.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in A Movement in Every Direction

April 13 - September 22, 2024 

BAMPFA, Berkeley CA

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration illuminates the enduring impressions of the Great Migration through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. 

Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya Infinite Like Night

April 12–June 1, 2024

Document, Chicago IL

The exhibition serves as a site of exploration for Blue Studio, the artist’s newest body of work, shown here for the first time. While continuing his investigation of the studio as a place of portraiture and play, these photographs represent a departure from Sepuya’s recent series Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio (2021-2023).

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Nineteenth-Century Photography Now

April 9 - July 7, 2024

Getty Center, Los Angeles CA

The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist today. Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists.

CLOSING SOON

Prof. Janelle Iglesias Las Hermanas Iglesias

March 30 - April 28, 2024

PULP Gallery, Holyoke MA

As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities.

MFA alum Virginia Maksymowicz in Philadelphia Sculptors: Artfront Partnership

February 1 - April 30, 2024

(re)FOCUS 2024, Philadelphia PA

The Artfront Partnership, a public art project under the aegis of Philadelphia Sculptors, has commissioned artists with a feminist perspective to transform vacant, dark storefronts into illuminated art spaces. Virginia Maksymowicz’s window considers the resilience and strength of the female figure in architecture by using the imagery of caryatids, who appear effortless in their supportive roles.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya Exposure

January 27 - May 5, 2024

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK

The exhibition will be the first institutional presentation of Sepuya’s work in the UK, bringing together more than 40 works across almost 400 square metres of gallery space. Sepuya is best known for his intimate studio portraits that explore the relationships between camera, subject and viewer. Sepuya will give an artist lecture on January 27 at 3:00 p.m.

MFA alum Angela Washko You Are: Mother, Player

April 5 – May 5, 2024

Public Works Administration, New York NY

You Are: Mother, Player is a solo exhibition centered around Angela Washko's 2020 Creative Capital project, Mother, Player, an experimental narrative video game featuring pregnancy and early parenthood stories from the artist (made during the global pandemic).

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