Joey Terrill
Russell Lecture with MCASD
March 12, 2026
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Jacobs Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
MCASD Members, UC San Diego Faculty & Students: FREE / Non-UCSD Students & Teachers, Older Adults: $5 / Non-Members: $15
UCSD students and faculty: Contact nlesley@ucsd.edu from your @ucsd.edu email to get the code for free tickets. UC San Diego ID is required for free entry.
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. His work was featured two years ago in “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” at Hammer Museum in LA as well as “Copy Machine Manifestos” at the Brooklyn Museum followed by a solo show in January 2024, “Still Here” at the Marc Selwyn Gallery in LA. His work can be found in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, and the Whitney Museum, in NY, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, in California at the Oakland Museum of California Art, SFMOMA, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, MOCA in LA and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in La Jolla.
The Russell Foundation was established in the will of Betty Russell, one of MCASD's founding docents and a long-time supporter of UC San Diego. She specified that funds from the foundation should help "foster the appreciation and study of the modern visual arts and creativity of young artists" through support for the Museum and the University. Past Russell Lecture speakers have included have included Math Bass (2025), Elliott Hundley (2024), Shizu Saldamando (2023), June Edmonds (2021), Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2020), Rodney McMillian (2019), Zackary Drucker (2018), Miguel Calderón (2017), Andrea Bowers (2016), Judith Barry (2015), Tacita Dean (2014), Byron Kim (2013), Tania Bruguera (2012), and Isaac Julien (2011).
Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
