COMING UP

VIS 106C class exhibition Personal Histories

March 18, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Mandeville 201A (upstairs), UC San Diego

Artemisia Barber, Zoe Beggin, Ava Boado, Kimmie Graney, Sylvia Park, Lauren Reed, Sophia Regier, Alyssa Jimenez, Saanvi Kotia, Jennifer Lau, Mariana Mercado, Andrew Reyes-Gomez, Monalisa Rodriguez, Haohua Zhou

VIS 147B class exhibition Kafkaesque

Reception: March 18, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

March 17 - March 18, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

An undergraduate student art exhibition from the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts major.

Professor Amy Adler online screening Rag Dolls in 5 Films for Freedom

March 18 - March 29, 2026

BFI Flare + British Council, UK

Each year we select five films from the BFI Flare programme and make them available online for audiences around the world for free for 12 days. The programme champions the power of storytelling to spark deeper understanding and change, showcasing diverse voices and perspectives that remind us that, no matter who we are or where we are, the need for love and self-expression is universal.

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Professor Emerita Anya Gallaccio exhibition

Reception: March 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

March 4 - May 23, 2026

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a selection of direct-cast bronze sculptures, photography, and drawing by the British artist Anya Gallaccio. Gallaccio is recognized for her use of organic materials to make sculpture and installation, and subverting them with the use of natural elements like dirt, flowers, fruits, and trees, subject to inevitable changing states of life, death, decomposition and transformation. 

BA alum Navíl Martínez screening El Topito

March 21, 3:00 p.m.

San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, CA

Vaquero feels the heavy burden of his past actions weighing him down and grapples with their impact on his life and those around him. The vast emptiness of the desert mirrors the emptiness he feels inside as he struggles to come to terms with what he’s lost because of his exigency to find manhood.

Lecturer Dino Dinco performance in Performancear o Morir

March 31 - April 4, 2026

Norogachi, Chihuahua, Mexico

DINO DINCO will perform in Performancear o Morir 2026, an international performance art festival. The festival coincides with the traditional indigenous Tarahumara / Rarámuri ceremonial practices held during Semana Santa (Noríruachi). This is DINCO's third time presenting performance work as part of Performancear o Morir. 

BA alum Sev Ohanian, Producer of Sinners, makes Academy Award history

UC San Diego Today

A tattered paperback, dog-eared with notes scribbled throughout the margins, sits on the desk of Hollywood film producer and UC San Diego alumnus Sev Ohanian ’08. Years earlier, Ohanian flipped through the same book, “How to Make It in Hollywood,” during office hours with faculty in the Visual Arts Department whose rigorous (and sometimes mind-bending) approach to storytelling helped shape his creative instincts.

UG student Amber Urena online exhibiton Hasta La Raíz

Kamil Gallery Online

Hasta La Raíz explores the intersection of textile, pattern, and cultural identity through portraiture as living carriers of cultural memory. The work reflects on Mexican-American identity, navigating the space between two cultures while resisting the erasure that can accompany acculturation. Together, the works form a narrative of belonging, continuity, and cultural pride that reflects the vibrancy and depth of Mexican culture. 

Professor Emerita Anya Gallaccio When black is burned

March 14 - April 25, 2026

Quint ONE, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA

At ONE, Quint Gallery presents When black is burned, a single obsidian wall sculpture by Gallaccio. Obsidian is a natural occurring volcanic glass is formed from rapidly cooling lava of an explosive or volatile eruption. In 2014, she cut and polished a number of roughly edged slabs of this material, creating a mirrored surface.

BA alum Francesca Hummler in exhibition East Meets West

March 14 – April 18, 2026

TECHNE, Oceanside, CA

Across works that juxtapose Eastern philosophy with Western expression, the exhibition treats photography as a living language — a space where cultural boundaries blur, merge, and generate new forms of visual understanding. This is a deliberate experiment in Dialogue · Fusion · Rebirth: artists invite us to reframe perception rather than confirm familiar binaries.

BA alum Francesca Hummler in Psyops And Photo Ops

March 6 - March 28, 2026

La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA 

This group exhibition at La Luz De Jesus brings together artists engaging with image-making as persuasion, spectacle, and intervention. I will be presenting two works from Rituals that examine the symbolic charge embedded in religious objects.

Professor Brian Cross directed video hollyweird by aja monet

YouTube

Esteemed poet aja monet offers “hollyweird” - With a haunting afro-punk drum and horn, aja reports on the Los Angeles fires of 2025 with visceral descriptions of fire, loss and the larger metaphor of change. aja monet is a poet, performer, and educator from East NY, Brooklyn, best known as the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poets' Café Grand Slam title.

FIELD Issue 32 founded & edited by Professor Grant Kester, with essay by PhD alum Jonah Gray

Over the past decade, FIELD has remained committed to providing independent critical analysis of activist and engaged and art practices, filling a significant void in contemporary art criticism. This is an absence that has only become more conspicuous in recent years, given the broad rise of neo-authoritarianism both in the U.S. and globally.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold exhibition Full Circle–The Teachings and Her Legacy

February 28 - May 1, 2026

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Curated by Mashonda Tifrere, the exhibition is framed conceptually through Ringgold’s relationship to UC San Diego, where she served as professor of visual arts from 1984 to 2002. This institutional affiliation provides a lens for understanding how her academic philosophy materialized throughout her practice and impacted not only those she mentored at UC San Diego, but generations of artists around the world.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition Jimmy DeSana and Paul Mpagi Sepuya

January 9 - March 21, 2026

Document, Chicago, IL

This intergenerational dialogue between the work of Jimmy DeSana (b. 1949 – d. 1990) and Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982) unfolds as a set of carefully matched pairings. Both artists use photography to engage with queer bodies and the politics of representation, implicating the viewer as much as any figure who appears in the frame.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol exhibition Outside Your Cloud

February 20 - March 28, 2026

Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY

In her upcoming solo exhibition, Outside Your Cloud, Sabrina Piersol utilizes a cold, blue-and-yellow palette inspired by the long Colorado autumn to describe ephemeral, natural forms. Outside Your Cloud is on view from February 20 to March 28 at Jack Barrett Gallery in New York City.

MFA student Jamil G Baldwin, UG alum Kiko Thomas in exhibition Of the People

January 20, 2026 - March 27, 2026

Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ

Of the People features a selection of works on paper by contemporary artists from across the United States who responded to the question: what does American Democracy mean to you? Through investigative research, consulting various formal and informal repositories of knowledge, and reflecting inwardly, this group of artists particularly consider the meaning of American democracy in the present moment.

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