COMING UP

VIS 107A class exhibition Stranger Things

March 12, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.


Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Isabel Arntz, Grace Bethany, Danielle Bryant, Gabriela Chavez, Ashley Farfan, Emerson Gozali, Jay Holliman, Trinity Johnson, Angeni Loewy, Angelina Mai, Daniella Manrique Salazar, AJ Martinez, Madeline McFarland, Nathalie Meza, Joana Peralta, Uliana Polyakova, Sebrina Pustam, Ellie Reuter, Kristianne Reyes, Aimee Salazar, Soobin Shin, Leif Alexis Villanueva, Nicole Xie, Josephine Yeh, Jenny Zion

ICAM Senior Showcase DIGIT.AL

March 12, 3:30 - 6:20 p.m.

Mandeville B114, UC San Diego

Kamil Gallery Online

Karen Li • Charline Li • Cindy Zhou • Vinny Xiong • Vivian Lee • Nathally Montiel Romero • Cassandra Covarruvias • Thorsaeng Thanopajai • Tiffany Liang • Angela Le • Ashlie Kim • Joseph Soriano • Regina Kim • Milay Galbraith • Noah Gallardo

Joey Terrill: Russell Lecture presented by Department of Visual Arts & MCASD

March 12, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Jacobs Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA

Since the 1970s, Joey Terrill, a Los Angeles based Chicano artist, has explored the intersection of his Latino and gay male identities in his art. A native Angeleno, he studied at Immaculate Heart Collage and California State University, Los Angeles. Living with HIV for 45 years, his art career has paralleled and documented his four decades as an AIDS activist.

Professor Memo Akten talk in Scientia / De Lange Conference

March 12 - March 14, 2026

Rice University, Houston, TX

Professor Akten will be giving a 'provocation' talk on "Why neuroscience needs the arts?" The translation of neuroscientific discovery into societal impacts is an exciting prospect, and one that requires neuroscience to engage with a wider range of expertise.

BA alum Al-e McWhorter in From Broadway to the Big Screen: Alumni Careers in Design

March 13, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Join us for an inspiring conversation with UC San Diego alumni shaping the future of design across theatre, film, and immersive storytelling. Al-e McWhorter '18 is a production designer and art director whose career bridges film, visual media, and world-building.

Professor Emerita Anya Gallaccio When black is burned

Reception: March 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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

Reception: March 14, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Sahar Sajadieh exhibition Paper Boat

Reception: March 15, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

March 14 - March 17, 2026

SXSW Festival, Austin, Tx

Paper Boat is a site-specific, interactive augmented reality artwork that stages the climate crisis as an embodied, playable, and performative experience. Participants become active spect-actors, navigating a human figure through flooding streets and debris toward a paper boat as the environment slowly submerges around them.

VIS 147B class exhibition Kafkaesque

March 16, 12:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Dirty Birds, Price Center

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.

VIS 100A class exhibition Phantasms and Holograms

March 16, 5:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This exhibition explores designs and strategies that engage today’s shifting public domain structures and their various spatial and systematic manifestations. We imagine new interfaces between individuals, collectives, and institutions with the aim of coproducing more critical and inclusive forms of public space and culture.

UG Studio Honors Open Studios

March 17, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville 203 (upstairs), UC San Diego

STUDIO HONORS is a two consecutive quarter sequence for advanced students focusing on developing a self-directed studio practice and producing a Thesis Project. Janice Chanmi Kang, Kyungwoo Choi, Jon Picinich, Ala Campos, Catherine Yun, Jasmine Summers, Uliana Poyakova, Loic Tedd, Raquel Harter, Andrew Reyes-Gomez, AJ Martinez, Sophia Regier, Kathryn Deason, Zoe Beggin, Ava Boado.

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.

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. 

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 Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman win 2026 National Design Award for UCSD Community Stations

They won the category “Climate Action” for establishing a rooted network of spaces across the border region that link university and community to support vulnerable people at the frontlines of the climate-migration crisis. Most recently, they have built Santuario Frontera in Tijuana, now the largest migrant sanctuary in the US-Mexico border region, and the only one centrally dedicated to binational ecosystem protection.

 

BA alum Jordan Witsken children's book Voyager: Becoming a Moon

Witsken Writing

Voyager is a beautifully illustrated children's story about curiosity, family, and finding your place in the universe. Blending gentle science concepts with heart, this book introduces young readers to space in a way that is imaginative, comforting, and inspiring.

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

MFA student Jamil G. Baldwin, MFA alumni Arlene Mejorado, Artemisa Clark in A Tender Excavation

November 1, 2025 - March 13, 2026

Luckman Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA

The title of the exhibition borrows a description of Arlene Mejorado’s practice as “an act of care, via a tender excavation of objects, anecdotes, and memories simultaneously.” A Tender Excavation centers identities that have been systematically excluded from mainstream narratives and representations of not only American art but of representing an “American” identity.

MFA students Nube Cruz, Ryan Oh, Angelo Pezzini in Instructions for Another World

February 12 – March 13, 2026

Da Vinci Gallery, LA City College, Los Angeles, CA

Instructions for Another World gathers a collective of emerging artists whose practices operate as materials from adjacent realities, worlds built through metal, memory, and ritual. The exhibition treats instruction not as command, but as speculative fragments, gestures, and tools for navigating futures and worlds which are not yet legible.

MFA alum Marge Dean exhibition The Sweepers

February 28 - March 15, 2026

Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA

The Sweepers, a new conceptual art exhibition of the work of acclaimed animation leader and multi-media artist Marge Dean. Each piece is built around the same concept: What would a world where housework is valued — and the women doing it recognized as creative visionaries — look like?

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.

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