Archive
This is an incomplete list of events produced by the Department of Visual Arts, which does not include solo exhibitions by Graduate and Undergraduate Students.
2026 Spring Events
ECHO•location: VIS 160B Honors Senior Projects in Computing Arts
ECHO•location: VIS 160A Senior Project in Computing Arts
Every Thing After This / Futures at the Uncanny Front: VIS 190 Speculative Design Master Studio
Refractions: Undergraduate Studio Honors Thesis Exhibition
The Interactables: VIS 160A Senior Projects in Computing Arts
16th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
2026 Winter Events
Open Studios - Undergraduate Studio Honors
Kafkaesque: VIS 147B Class Exhibition
Joey Terrill: Russell Lecture with MCASD
DIGIT.AL: ICAM Senior Showcase
Stranger Things: VIS 107A Class Exhibition
DOCTORAL RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM - Keynote: Professor Gerardo Aldana
2025 Fall Events
Panoptic: Design of Public Culture: VIS 100A Class Exhibition
VIS 80 Introduction to Studio Art Exhibition
Confluence: VIS 108 Class Exhibition
iris yirei hu Open Studio: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
Lightning Talks: Presentations by First Year MFA & PhD Art Practice Students
iris yirei hu Artist Talk: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
2025 Spring Events
If Only You Knew: VIS 164, 168, 174 Classes Exhibition
The Internet Can't Archive This Feeling: ICAM Senior Exhibition
The Last Planet: Speculative Design Senior Exhibition
Bits & Bops: VIS 147A Class Exhibition
Sonder: Studio Honors Exhibition
Mortal Essence: UG Senior Studio Exhibition
Daniel Scheinert: Annual Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
15th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Shirley Tse: Remote Artist Talk
2025 Winter Events
Math Bass: Russell Lecture with MCASD
Open Studios - Undergraduate Studio Honors
Hamza Walker: Visiting Speaker
2024 Fall Events
Nothing to Lose: Expressions of Bold Vulnerability: Undergraduate Group Exhibition
Mail It In: VIS 107A Class Exhibition
Beyond Now Near Futures: VIS 108 Class Exhibition
Seaways: Embodied Pacific Project Screenings and Panel Discussions
Lightning Talks: New MFA Student Presentations
Tanya Aguiñiga Open Studio: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
Tanya Aguiñiga Artist Talk: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
Embodied Pacific: Getty PST ART Exhibitions and Programs at 6 Venues
2024 Spring Events
A Handful of Fog: MFA Graduating Cohort Exhibition
Syzygy + Synchronicity + Synapse: VIS 190 Design Master Studio Exhibition
We’re Not Old Enough to Know What Dying Means: ICAM Senior Showcase
VIS 190 Design Master Studio Exhibition
Bloom: Studio Honors Thesis Exhibition
Radio Chthulucene: Collaborative FM Radio Installation
Honey & Tar: VIS 169A Exhibition
LaJuné McMillian: Guest Lecture
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Guest Lecture
14th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Kyle McDonald: Guest Lecture "Notes From the Pacific"
2024 Winter Events
Pablo José Ramírez: Guest Lecture
Carmen Cuenca & Andrea Torreblanca: Guest Lecture
Elliott Hundley: Russell Lecture with MCASD
2023 Fall Events
Carlos Garrido Castellano, PhD: Remote Guest Lecture
Pussy Riot’s Diana Burkot & Alina Petrova @ UCSD
Ceres Madoo: Open Studio, Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
2023 Spring Events
Sites of Blood and Water: MFA Graduating Cohort Exhibition
BARCA / Futopia: Speculative Design Capstone Projects Exhibition
Sandwich: Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts Senior Exhibition
Space Between: Studio Honors Thesis Exhibition
13th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Ian Cooper in conversation with Lauren Mackler: Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
2023 Winter Events
Tosh Basco: Remote Guest Lecture
Shizu Saldamando: Russell Lecture with MCASD
micha cárdenas: Remote Guest Lecture
Lesley Stern Memorial Symposium
45 Minutes from Edith Wharton: Screening with Director Steve Fagin
2022 Fall Events
Lightning Talks: New MFA Student Presentations
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Open Studio, Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Guest Lecture, Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
2022 Spring Events
Bonfire: 2022 Graduating MFA Exhibition
12th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Pink Slip: First Year MFA Show
Alex Rivera: Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
Global Freedom Struggles from Kashmir to Palestine
Gathering of Students and Colleagues in honor of Jack Greenstein
2022 Winter Events
Amy Franceschini: Remote Guest Lecture
Jacolby Satterwhite: Remote Guest Lecture
The Dis/Appearance of Mei and Fusako Shigenobu
Yolanda López: A Studio of One's Own
The Ethics of Engagement: A Conversation with Aruna D’Souza and Zoe Charlton
2021 Fall Events
Yong Soon Min: Transnational Korean Studies Virtual Lecture
Ocean Prototype Nights - Episode 2: Canoes, Conservation, and Computation
June Edmonds: Russell Lecture with MCASD
Beatriz Cortez: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence
2021 Spring Events
Speculative Design Final Presentations: VIS 190 Thesis Studio
Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts: Senior Project Presentations
Patrick Martinez: Remote Guest Lecture
11th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Garrett Bradley: Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
Angela Washko: Computing in the Arts Lecture Series
Q&A with Filmmaker Fox Maxy and Adam Piron
Jillian Hernandez: Remote Guest Lecture
Joel Slayton: Computing in the Arts Lecture Series
2021 Winter Events
Postcommodity: A Conversation About New Work
Ellen Lupton & Josh Halstead: Saturday Morning Pop-up Book Talk
Chris E. Vargas: Remote Guest Lecture
Nicole Fleetwood: Remote Guest Lecture
Beatriz Cortez: Longenecker-Roth Artist In Residence Guest Lecture
2020 Fall Events
Happy New Year! Works from the Expanded Cinema Graduate Seminar
Pohflepp in Practice: Revisiting the work and world of artist & designer Sascha Pohflepp
Saidiya Hartman: In Conversation Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Fast Art And Good For You: An Evening of Talks & Performances from 2nd Year MFAs
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Russell Lecture with MCASD
Salome Asega: Remote Guest Lecture
Wu Tsang: Remote Guest Lecture
Celebrating Lesley Stern's New Book: Diary of a Detour
Design Fictions: Future Epidemiologies, Ethical Responses, Public Health
2020 Spring Events
ICAM & Speculative Design Senior Exhibition
Keith Mayerson: Remote Guest Lecture
Steffanie Ling: Remote Guest Lecture
Jennifer Bolande: Remote Guest Lecture
10th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Daniela Lieja Quintanar: Remote Guest Lecture
Todd Gray: Remote Guest Lecture
2020 Winter Events
Film By Hand: 16mm Experimental Film Screenings & Talk
Laura Nix: MFA Alum Guest Lecture
Dr. Kathleen Ryor: Guest Lecture on Asian Art
Chaz: A Conversation on West Coast Graffiti & Handstyles
Miljohn Ruperto: Guest Lecture
2019 Fall Events
Diedrick Brackens: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Open Studio
A Public Appearance: Artists from the Art Practice PhD Concentration
UAG 2020: The Future of the University Art Gallery
Matthew Brower "Digital Animalities" Guest Lecture
Las Hermanas Iglesias: Performative Lecture
Rodney McMillian: Russell Lecture
Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade: Guest Lecture
Diedrick Brackens: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Guest Lecture
2019 Spring Events
HERE/AFTER: Undergraduate Senior Show
Silience: ICAM Senior Exhibition
MEX/USA + Catoptromancy: Speculative Design Senior Exhibition
9th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Katherine Reischl: Guest Lecture
Elizabeth Guffey: Guest Lecture
Ontology and Haunting: On Agard-Jones's "What the Sands Remember"
ECCENTRICITY HAS ROOM: Graduating MFA Exhibition at MCASD
Reading Workshop: “Digital Knowledge and Collective Memory"
Reading Workshop: "On Archives and Their Affects"
Michael Shawver: 2nd Annual Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
Reading Workshop: Decolonial Practices, Indigeneity, and Pia Arke’s “Ethno-Aesthetics”
2019 Winter Events
Undergraduate Studio Honors Open Studios
Brittany Ransom: Guest Lecture
Graduate Open Studios & PhD Symposium
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere: Guest Lecture
Kusama: Infinity - Screening and Talk with Director Heather Lenz & Amy Adler
The Last Resort: An exhibition of work made in and about the desert
2018 Fall Events
Digital Cinema: VIS 171 Final Screening
Documentary Evidence & the Construction of Authenticity: VIS 180A Final Screening
Full-On: An exhibition from Vis 80 Studio Majors
LUSTRO: Presented by Lissette Jiménez
Anna Sew Hoy: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Open Studio
Zackary Drucker: Russell Lecture
Candice Hopkins: Guest Lecture
Carrie Mae Weems: MFA Alum Guest Lecture
Joshua A. Fogel: Keynote Lecture
Interrogating the Archive Colloquium
Adam Khalil: Screening & Guest Lecture
Anna Sew Hoy: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Guest Lecture
2018 Spring Events
Bodies In Trouble: MFA Exhibition at MCASD
Here and Now: Converging Histories
Impossible Spaces: Studio Honors Thesis Show 2018
8th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
Art, Activism, and the Environment: A Conversation
Bradford Young: 1st Annual Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
Chilenas in the Diaspora: Culture, Resistance, and Hope
Interrogating the Archive: Decolonization is Not a Metaphor