Reception: June 11, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 12, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Closing: June 13, 6:00 p.m.

Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Step into a space where fear is forgotten and creation runs wild. If Only You Knew is a student art exhibition that invites you to witness what happens when artists let go of expectations and lean into vulnerability, curiosity, and raw expression. You might just leave seeing art, and yourself, a little differently.

June 9 - June 13, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

The Last Planet explores molecular to galactic provocations of life on Earth and elsewhere. Toying with radical botany, cosmic masterplanning, non-fiction science fiction, collective madness, sentient and diseased architecture, and artificial alchemy, few questions go unasked in this eclectic exhibition—the mic-drop for our graduating Speculative Design provocateurs. Food and drinks will be served.

June 11 - June 12, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Presented by senior ICAM students, this exhibition showcases their capstone projects of a wide range of works–from interactive installations and games to sound, video, and experimental media. Each project merges art and technology to explore a variety of themes and unique perspectives developed over two quarters.

June 13, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Mandeville 201B, UC San Diego

Creating a collaborative pre-professional space for contemporary artists to explore their unique style.

June 13, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

Join us for a night of experimental sound, with artists incorporating electronic music with live coding and algorithmic visuals. This will be the 25th anniversary of Amy Alexander’s vj übergeek audiovisual performance. There will also be solo performances by Roy Jara and a collaboration between Matty Terrones and Victor Castaneda H.

Reception: June 13, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

June 10 - June 21, 2025

Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

Started in 2021, this project merges experimental theater and public performance to ask what it means to belong to a public. Alongside different groups of performers, I repurposed journalistic imagery to develop site-specific performances across Los Angeles, blending collective memory with the everyday cityscape.

Reception: June 15, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

115 1/2 North F St. Lompoc, CA

This duo show with Lucy Lord Campana will have an opening reception on Sunday, June 15th, 12pm - 3pm.

June 20, 7:30 p.m.

REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

In The Case of Outgoing Autocrats: Public Art, Alliance Structures, and Far-Right Military Violence in Turkey, artist Hande Sever explores the figure of Kenan Evren—painter, self-appointed art critic, former president of Turkey, and leader of the 1980 military coup—alongside the strategic deployment of visual culture as a means of historical revisionism during the Cold War.

Reception: June 21, 2025

June 21 - August 31, 2025

ICA Central, San Diego, CA

The annual exhibition celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego and Baja California region. Through NextGen, ICA San Diego provides local emerging artists with both exhibition opportunities and professional development, while highlighting the strength of our creative community.

June 6 - June 25, 2025

Oolong Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Singletary’s painting practice delves into memory and myth. Drawing from Biblical and Classical tales, Southern folklore, his family’s spiritual lineage, and the subconscious, the artist channels a visual language steeped in longing, pain, and transformation. His work explores themes of death, love, and fear, and reanimates the sacred and the subconscious through ritualized technique and iconographic reference.

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

May 31 - June 22, 2025

Persons Unknown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collective imagination is constantly pulled to an immediate future by the media and mainstream discourses with their emphasis on innovation and creativity, the promises and dangers of artificial intelligence and space travel, and the imminence of an ecological collapse that feels all too present.