COMING UP

UG Studio Honors exhibition Refractions

June 3 - June 5, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, Mandeville Center, UC San Diego

Featuring work by: Zoe Beggin, Ava Boado, Alia Campos, Kyungwoo Choi, Kathryn Deason, Raquel Erin Harter, Janice Chanmi Kang, Arianna Jinella Martinez, Jon Picinich, Uliana Polyakova, Sophia Regier, Andrew Reyes-Gomez, Jasmine Paguirigan Summers, Loic Tedder, Catherine Yun

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.

PhD student Doreen Ríos book presentation Medios Inestables

June 4, 5:30 p.m.

The FRONT Library, San Ysidro, CA

The Front will be welcoming author Doreen A. Rios to our gallery library on Thursday June 4th, to present her latest work Medios Inestables: De Objetos Técnicos y Arte. This special presentation will be presented by Pablo Dodero, & Doreen A. Rios in person.

Professor Robert Twomey screening Best Friends Forever

June 5 - June 7, 2026

CVPR Art, Denver, CO

Best Friends Forever is a hybrid performance, speculative cinema, and technical research project investigating the emerging terrain of human-AI intimacy and embodied machine cognition. Two artist-researchers live with SNAPPER and HELPER, functioning as autonomous, physically-grounded AI companions integrated into the family and home.

BA alum Nick Lesley in The Color of Silence

Reception: June 6, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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. 

UG Speculative Design exhibition Every Thing After This / Futures at the Uncanny Front

Reception: June 8, 5:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This advanced course provides students with a unique immersive learning experience, based on design studio/atelier methods. This course develops students’ skills in the ideation, planning, and execution of complex individual and collaborative projects, including historical and contextual research, project management, coordination of skills and responsibilities, iterative execution, and effective presentation.

UG Interdisciplinary Computing Arts exhibition Echo•Location

Reception: June 9, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

June 8 - June 9, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville B114, B115, B116, UC San Diego

June 10 - June 12, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Student projects can also be viewed at the 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.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in exhibition Fragile Beauty

June 12 - September 27, 2026

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Marking over thirty years of collecting, Fragile Beauty celebrates Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for photography, reflecting their personal taste and unique eye as collectors. Across five thematic sections, the exhibition explores themes such as desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage, and affirmation of identity.

MFA alum Cat Gunn solo exhibition if only by the light of a new moon

Reception: June 13, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 13 - September 13, 2026

ICA San Diego, Balboa Park, CA

Cat Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home that one has never known through materials including fabric, ceramics, and cyanotypes. Gunn was ICA San Diego’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Matt Savitsky, Joe Yorty in exhibition Ruins: Performing Queer History

May 2 - June 13, 2026

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

Amy Adler, Ken Gonzales-Day, Cat Gunn, William E. Jones, Morgan Lieberman, Stephen Milner, Darian Newman, Matt Savitsky, Joe Yorty. Curated by MFA alum Nathan Storey.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition Focus. Desire.

February 28 - June 14, 2026

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

In his portraits and studio photographs, Sepuya explores queer desire while questioning the established acts of looking and their underlying power structures. Through intimate encounters and carefully staged compositions that often involve close friends, Sepuya presents marginalised bodies as fragmented subjects and objects in their relation to the gaze. 

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