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 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