Reception: September 4, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Students pursue projects of their own design over two quarters with support from faculty in a seminar environment. Project proposals are developed, informed by project development guidelines from real-world examples. Links to each project can be seen at the Kamil Gallery online.

September 6, 2024

Ars Electronica Skyloft, Linz Austria

Professor Amy Alexander will present her paper, "Deep Hysteria: Toward a Constructive Approach to Algorithmic Bias" at the Expanded Animation symposium at Ars Electronica in Linz. The symposium focuses on academic art papers in the field of expanded animation and interactive art that explore audiovisual expression at the intersection of art and technology.

September 6 - October 26, 2024

Edge Art Space, Torino Italy

Located in a place of great history and rich cultural heritage, EDGE ART SPACE is a new-generation gallery that focuses in particular on promoting emerging artists on the international stage. Each exhibition is an experiment in curation, with a view to seeking out a new voice in art.

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

Exhibition Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Three Lives is part of the Embodied Pacific programming at UC San Diego organized by the Visual Arts Department and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the Getty Foundation’s region-wide PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

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.

Reception: September 14, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

September 14 - October 19, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

The INSITE LAB is a roving platform for artists on both sides of the border designed to instigate conversations and experiences around process and research in art making. The LAB offers an innovative framework outside of academia where artists engage with specialists from a variety of disciplines and reimagine the region as a laboratory for research.

Reception: September 14, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

September 14 - October 12, 2024

Quint One, San Diego CA

In the 1980s, the artist began cutting and sewing together pieces of fabric which he painted on directly with graphic motifs relative to specific locations around the world. He is known for his unabashed embrace of decoration, craft, and the handmade, and through these earlier fabric works, creates a meeting place across cultures.

September 20, 7:30 p.m.

Bread & Salt, San Diego CA

WAVE + ENERGY is a concert of works that pair music and video to create an immersive sensorium where perceptions shift and boundaries blur. Curated by Joe Cantrell, this concert pairs some of our favorite improvising artists and musicians to create new works of sound that you can see and light that you can feel!

August 29, 2024 - April 12, 2025

Rubin Gallery & L Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso

The exhibition includes artwork from the U.S. Corn Belt and from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. For the artists (many of whom have witnessed these events firsthand), it is important to make visible the connections between the natural world, agricultural reform, economic recession, military intervention, civil war, genocide, and mass migrations.

Through September 30, 2024

Billboard on Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA

Starting from a collection of Ford Motor Company commercials archived in Detroit, Danielle Dean uses print advertisements from the 1920s to reveal how landscapes were instrumentalized in consumer culture to promote the aspirational ‘American Dream.’ 

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

August 2 - September 7, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The show invites artists from across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Albania and Mexico to an exhibition organized as a love letter to an idealized home – one both real and imagined, archival and ancestral – about the impact of displacement on their cities’ empowerment, embodiment, and resilience.

May 26 - September 8, 2024

Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA

Highway Hypnosis explores the cultural lineage of 3B Collective, a group of native (and immigrant) Angeleno multidisciplinary artists. The exhibition delves into past and present connections within the collective’s work, such as challenging preconceived notions of craft, the commodification of cultural goods, hyper-individualism, and hidden labor.

July 13 - September 14, 2024

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles CA

Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.