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Carolina Caycedo
Remote Guest Lecture
April 8, 2022
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. PDT
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/7kD3Dgcdpp0
Carolina Caycedo (1978) is a Colombian, London-born, multidisciplinary artist known for her performances, videos, artist’s books, sculptures, and installations that examine environmental and social issues. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and nonhuman entities. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Hyphen-Labs
Remote Guest Lecture
April 15, 2022
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. PDT
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/_pRCJ7-sL3c
Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through their global vision and multi-disciplinary backgrounds they are driven to create engaging ways to explore planetary-centered design. In the process they challenge conventions and stimulate conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the center of evolving narratives.
LET THAT WINDOW BE A DOOR
alexis hithe: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 21, 6:00 p.m.
Closing Celebration: April 28, 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: April 25 - April 28, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
LET THAT WINDOW BE A DOOR: an installation of 29, or 30 or a Thousand-Million Mirrors with new experimental video work by alexis hithe.
Tomándome mi tiempo, conversaciones trascendentales en la morada interior
Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 28, 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours & Performances: April 29-30 & May 2-5, 3:00 p.m.
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
In “Tomándome mi tiempo, conversaciones en la morada interior” you walk into a candlelit limbo, an in-between places, a liminal pocket of disfigured time and space. Here I meet with Santa Teresa and experience transcendental, faith fueled conversation with her, we find ourselves dismembered, lost, used.
Gathering of Students and Colleagues in honor of Jack Greenstein
April 30, 2022
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg. UC San Diego
A series of speakers will honor Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, Jack Greenstein.
tether
kelechi agwuncha: MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 5 - May 7, 2022
Video Installation Screenings & Performances : 7:00 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
Closing Reception: May 7, 7:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg. UC San Diego
tether is a video installation that meditates on kelechi agwuncha's subconscious childhood memories of performance. it documents a new ritual that bridges their memories of playing the recess game, "tetherball" and witnessing traditional Ojiọnu Igbo masquerade figures gesture in a kind of spectacular, uncensored reality.
El Des-Archivo del Campesino Urbano
Isidro Pérez García: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: May 5, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: May 7, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.; May 9, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: May 12, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
Working from within a campesino urbano cosmos, this gallery installation of thirteen artworks is centered on the complex question of how to reconnect with indigenous worlds from the positionality of a de-indigenized indigenous person.
Global Freedom Struggles from Kashmir to Palestine
May 9, 2022
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Register for Webinar Here
This virtual panel discusses the linked global struggles against colonial occupation in Palestine and Kashmir. Learn from our panel of experts about the ongoing struggles in these places, the global movement for decolonization and deoccupation, and the possibilities and limitations of the university as a site of solidarity.
Alex Rivera
Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture
May 11, 2022
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. PDT
Price Center Theater, UC San Diego
Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Sundance Fellow, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. To honor the memory of their son, the Kamil family established the Adam D. Kamil Media Awards and Lecture Series.
Blight Birth Burning in Brine
Victor Castañeda: MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 11 - May 20, 2022
Performances: May 16 - May 18, 5:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: May 19, 6:00 p.m.
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
"Blight Birth Burning in Brine is reimagining my feelings of my personal memories through misremembering, adding, and subtracting its details. Blurring truth and fiction to create new imagined memories."
Pink Slip
First Year MFA Show
Reception: May 14, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: May 13 - May 15, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave. San Diego
A group exhibition by the first year students of the Visual Arts MFA program: JAX, Deanna Barahona, Emily Greenberg, Gustavo Martinez, Junyi Min, Naomi Nadreau, Chanell Stone, and Nathan Storey.
Papadopoulos Short Film Festival
Hosted by MFA candidate alexis hithe
May 19, 2022, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Mom's Cafe, Muir College, UC San Diego
Including short films by Zeinabu Irene Davis, Michelle Parkerson, Canelle Aponte Pearson, Stefani Saintonge, and Yvonne Michelle Shirley. This event is co-sponsored by the Black Studies Project, Visual Arts, Ethnic Studies, Muir College, Mom's Cafe, and LGBTQIA+ LLC.
Glean In
Matt Williams: MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 19 - 20 & 23 - 27, 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
Reception: May 19, 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
To make an appointment, please email mtwillia@ucsd.edu
12th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
May 20, 2022
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. PDT
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, Mandeville Center, UC San Diego
The Adam D. Kamil Media Awards were developed to help UC San Diego undergraduates polish their skills in film production and to help them realize their creative potential in this field. All submissions will be viewable in the Kamil Gallery May 17-20, and in the Kamil Gallery Online.
2022 Senior Studio Art Show
Reception: May 25, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, Mandeville Center, UC San Diego
Visit the Kamil Gallery to see work by the senior undergraduate Studio Art majors.
You took my impression without ever touching me
beck haberstroh: MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 25 - May 27, 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Performances: June 1, 6:00 p.m.; June 2, 6:00 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Closing Reception: June 2, 5:30 p.m.
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
In this panoramic shadow play, a person encounters a clone of their face in a database.
We Got Here Under False Pretenses
Taylor Chapin: MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 30 - June 3, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
Reception: June 2, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego
We Got Here Under False Pretenses is a painting-based show exploring the obfuscation of forms via covering, resulting in multi-layered, illusory facades. Human bodies and consumer goods are ensconced in pattern and color, emphasizing their inherent banality while simultaneously enshrining and transforming their visual structures of identification as a way of critiquing the perception of value.
Self, Space, & Subculture
2022 Studio Honors Show
May 30 - June 3, 2022, 12:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Reception: June 2, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, Mandeville Center, UC San Diego
Visit the Kamil Gallery to see works by the Studio Honors students: Tony Anguiano, Grant Blades, Vicki Huang, Jessica Kamman, Vanessa Machin, Miranda May, Liam Morrill, Raul Noriega, Nadia Talamantez, Kiko Thomas, Nomi Winsor, and Coco Yu.
Recent Publications
Field Journal #21
Founded & Edited by Professor Grant Kester
We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.
GRAD EXHIBITIONS ONLINE
This site includes documentation of solo thesis shows from graduating MFA students as well as First Year Reviews. Past exhibitions include the 2022 & 2021 Open Studios and the 2021 & 2020 graduating MFA exhibitions.
KAMIL GALLERY ONLINE
The Adam D. Kamil Gallery is now also online. This gallery is a site for undergraduate art shows and hosts the annual reception and exhibition for students that participate in the Adam D. Kamil Media Awards. Visual Arts majors and minors at the junior or senior level are eligible to submit a proposal to show in the Kamil Gallery for one week during the academic school year. Past online exhibitions remain viewable with the artists' permission.
News
- MFA Alumni Alida Cervantes and Misael Diaz (Cog●nate Collective) are two of four recipients of the 2022 San Diego Art Prize. Their artwork will be displayed alongside that of the other winners in an exhibition at the Central Library Art Gallery in downtown San Diego from Sep 17, 2022 until Jan 7, 2023
- Late MFA Alum Hung Liu: Quintessential Humanist, A Legacy in Portraits, Jul 22 – Aug 21, 2022, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe (NM)
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold: American People at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (CA), Jul 16 – Nov 27, 2022
- MFA Alum Jesse Mockrin: Reliquary, May 14 – Jun 18, 2022, Night Gallery in LA (CA)
- Late MFA Alum Hung Liu's Melodramas in review on KC Studio, May 13, 2022
- Imagining Trans Futures talk by MFA Alumna micha cárdenas at the Univ. of Washington Bothell Labor Colloquium: "Stitching & Dreaming: Imagining Trans, Nonbinary and Two Spirit Futures", May 10, 2022, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Zoom (registration required)
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold received an honorary degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai according to newsweek, May 9, 2022
- Asst Professor Alexandro Segade in Queer Utopias on the Dancefloor & Beyond, May 7, 2022, 9:00 p.m., Zebulon, Los Angeles (CA)
- Professor Anya Gallaccio at the online An Artist Panel Discussion, San Diego Museum of Art, May 3, 2022, 10:00 am PT
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold's American People is a must see show according to FORBES, May 1, 2022
- MFA Candidate Isidro Pérez García's El Des-Archivo del Campesino Urbano exhibition featured on the San Diego Reader, May 2022
- Asst Professor Janelle Iglesias in Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive Panel & Catalogue Release, Apr 29, 2022, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. at La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego (CA)
- Professor & Chair Ricardo Dominguez #RetroColectiva at the UC San Diego Gallery QI, Atkinson Hall, Apr 28 - Jun 3, 2022. Opening Reception: April 28, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. PDT with presentations with Visual Arts Professor & Chair Ricardo Dominguez, Assoc Teaching Professor Brett Stalbaum, and Amy Sara Carroll, and Doreen Rios. Gallery QI performance May 19, 2022, 5:00 p.m. Three Echologies: Scene 2: Planetary Echologies with Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, MFA Alumni micha cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, and Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Sierra and Doreen Rios
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on the artblog, Apr 27, 2022
- MFA Candidate Maria Antonia Eguiarte featured on KPBS, Apr 25, 2022
- Professor Kuiyi Shen & PhD Candidate Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres in Modern & Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting virtual symposium, the Mozhai Foundation, University of Maryland, April 20 & April 27, 2022. Registration required.
- Assoc Professor Monique van Genderen: After Images at the Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin Germany, Apr 25 - Jun 25, 2022. Reception: April 22, 6:00 - 9:00 pm local time
- Professor Anya Gallaccio’s Rêvons D'or at Quint ONE, Bread & Salt, San Diego (CA), April 23-June 4, 2022. Reception: May 14, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone’s The Elusive Gaze of Chanell Stone's Self Portraits, created in partnership with the Aperture Foundation NY x Fujifilm, featured on aperture, Apr 17, 2022
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone and MFA Alum Lorna Simpson featured in Image Gardeners at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (SF), Jan 14 - Apr 30, 2022
- Asst Professor Danielle Dean HIT (Human Intelligence Task) at the Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (CA), Apr 14 - May 14, 2022; Reception: April 16, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. PDT
- MFA Candidate Amir Saadiq in 2022 Members' Juried Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (CA), Apr 9 - May 8, 2022
- Asst Professor Danielle Dean and MFA Alum Rayyane Tabet in 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, Apr 6 - Sep 5, 2022
- Asst Professor Janelle Iglesias (Las Hermanas Iglesias) in Mother at Mason Exhibitions, Arlington (VA), April 1 - May 29, 2022. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
- MFA Candidate Amir Saadiq in Context 2022 at the Filter Space, Chicago (IL), Apr 1-30, 2022
- MFA Candidate Hazel Katz: Who Gets to Die at Vox Populi, Philadelphia (PA), April 1 - May 8, 2022
- Melodramas: In Memory of Hung Liu (MFA Alum), Apr 1 - May 21, 2022, at The Byron Cohen Gallery & Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, (MI) - http://byroncohengallery.squarespace.com/hung-liu-melodramas-2022
- Curated by PhD Candidate Fabiola Carranza, MFA Alum Jessica Buie in RAUNCH, RAUNCH, DANCE! at the CSA Space, Vancouver (BC) Canada, Mar 27 - Apr 24, 2022
- Lecturer Huai Li, UG Students Katerina Husar Lazarova, Dingyi Xu, and MFA Alumni David Avalos, Perry Vásquez, Sam Wohl in Campus Creatives at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido (CA), Mar 26 - May 15, 2022
- Occupy Thirdspace II: Plástica y palabra en TJ/SD, curated by PhD Candidate Sara Solaimani Including Alumni David Avalos, Elizabeth Sisco, Omar Pimienta, Cog•nate Collective, and Prof Emeritus Louis Hock on view at the Dome Terrace 9th fl (outdoor), SD Public Library, Feb 19 - May 2, 2022. Reception: February 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold: American People, a retrospective on view at the New Museum, NYC, Feb 17 - Jun 5, 2022
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold: Prints and Multiples at ACA Galleries, NYC, Mar 16 - Jun 17, 2022
- Asst Professor Danielle Dean & PhD Candidate Stephanie Sherman present The Fordian Slip: From Plant to Plantation at the Design@Large, UC San Diego Design Lab Feb 16, 2022, 4:00 p.m. PST, Webinar Registration Here: https://designlab.ucsd.edu/events/stephanie-sherman-danielle-dean/
- Professor Teddy Cruz Humanities AND THE BORDER Virtual Talk at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Feb 15, 2022, 4:00 p.m. PST. Webinar Registration Here: https://splashthat.com/login
- Lecturer Raúl Guerrero: Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México (History and Legends from Mexico’s Streets), at the House of Gaga, México City (MX), Feb 8 - Mar 12, 2022
- Asst Professor Danielle Dean: Art Now, at the Tate Britain, London (UK), Feb 5 - May 8, 2022
- Asst Professor Janelle Iglesias and MFA Alumni Allison Wiese, Joe Yorty, & UG Alum Joshua Moreno featured in Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive at the La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla (CA) Feb 5 - May 15, 2022
- Remember This: Hung Liu (MFA Alum) at Trillium at the Univ. of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene (OR) Feb 5 - Aug 28, 2022
- Professor Michael Trigilio & Lecturer Trish Stone in ANTIBODIES at the QI Gallery (UC San Diego, CalIt) Feb 3 - Mar 11, 2022. Panel Discussion: Feb 24, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. PST
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone photographs for the NY Times, Jan 25, 2022
- MFA Alum Melissa Smedley featured in Courage Within: Women Without Shelter, at the Monterey Museum of Art (CA), Jan 27 - Apr 23, 2022
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in new exhibition at Howard University: New Acquisitions and African-American Masters in Washington, D.C., Jan 22 - Mar 3, 2022
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone and MFA Alum Lorna Simpson featured in Image Gardeners at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (SF), Jan 14 - Apr 30, 2022
- Ross Karre (VisArts MFA and Music DMA Alum) has been named Associate Professor of Percussion at Oberlin Conservatory and will begin his new role in the Fall 2022 semester
- Lecturer Dino Dinco: Mustache Mondays (ARTBOUND) Documentary screenings on KCET, Jan 12, 9:00 pm, Jan 13, 1:30 am, and Jan 16, 5:00 pm (PT)3
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on The Art Newspaper, Jan 3, 2022
- MFA Alum Kevin Vincent featured on the San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan 1, 2022
- MFA Alum Hung Liu featured in Powerful Women II: Contemporary Art from the Eiteljorg Collection at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis (IN), on view through March 13, 2022
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone featured in the Silver List, Online Exhibition at the Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh (PA)
- Professor Teddy Cruz mentioned on thisweek@ucsandiego, Dec 2, 2021
- MFA Alum Asa Mendelsohn is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2021) in the Short-Form Writing category.
- Several films with Professor Babette Mangolte as Cinematographer on the Criterion Channel, Female Gaze Collection, Nov 2021
- PhD Candidate Hande Sever: Aridification as Protagonist: Kuzgun Acar's Ecocriticism in the November 2021 Issue of the MARCH International Journal
- MFA Alum dana washington featured on The UC San Diego The Guardian, Nov 28.2021
- Alan Lilienthal interviews artist and photographer Yvonne Venegas (MFA Alum) live on the KPBS YouTube channel for an upcoming episode of the “Port of Entry” podcast, Thursday, Nov 18, 2021
- Lecturer Mara de Luca: West Coast Paintings at Quint Gallery, La Jolla (CA), Nov 13, 2021 - Jan 8, 2022
- MFA Alumni Cog●nate Collective (Misael Diaz + Amy Sanchez Arteaga) present Como Soles: Despidiendo Luz / Like Suns: Giving Off Light at Best Practice, San Diego (CA), Nov 13 - Dec 18, 2021
- Retrospective: Ricardo Dominguez (Professor and Chair of Visual Arts) at Centro Cultural Digital, Mexico, Nov 11 - Dec 31, 2021. Online Opening: Nov 11, 4:00 PT
- PhD Candidate Hande Sever Awarded Individual Artist Fellowship by CA Arts Council 2021
- MFA Alumni Ash Eliza Smith and Paolo Zuñiga screenings on Nov 8, 2021, 1:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m., & 7:30 p.m. at the Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
- Associate Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Black American Portraits, Nov 7, 2021 - Apr 17, 2022, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. Virtual Artist Talk Wednesday, Nov 17th, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PT
- Assistant Professor Janelle Iglesias in M(other) Tongues: Bodhild and Las Hermanas Iglesias. Workshop & Reception: Nov 6, 5:00 p.m. PDT. On view Nov 4, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022 at the National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA
- MFA Alum Allison Wiese in Rule 42, Stretched Language at the Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, Bonita (CA), Nov 6 - Dec 3, 2021
- Assistant Professor Alexandro Segade with My Barbarian in Artforum in the article titled HAPPIER ENDINGS, November 2021 Print Issue.
- Assistant Professor Alexandro Segade My Barbarian, Oct 29, 2021 - Feb 27, 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
- MFA Alum micha cárdenas and Susan Stryker in conversation on Poetic Operations, Oct 28, 5:00 PM PDT
- Best Practice, co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty, will hold its Fundraising Art Auction at Bread & Salt, San Diego CA on Oct 23, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. PDT. The auction includes alumni, faculty and department affiliates MFA Alum Oscar Magallanes & 3B Collective Highways & Byways at Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood CA Reception: October 23, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. PDT. Exhibition on view Oct 23 - Dec 11, 2021
- Assistant Professor Danielle Dean Amazon (Proxy) Livestream Performances at Performa 2021 Biennial, New York City NY. Oct 21, 22, & 23, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. PDT. Live Stream: https://www.performa2021.org/live
- Professor Mariana Botey-Wardwell quoted on the SD Union-Tribune's Mexico's new culture war: decolonizing or rewriting history?, Oct 19, 2021
- MFA Perry Vásquez Solo Show: Oasis at Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA, Oct 17,2021 - Jan 9, 2022
- MFA Alum Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist, a presentation of one of the most important Chicano/a/x artists working in California over the past five decades at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Oct 16, 2021 - Apr 24, 2022
- MFA Perry Vasquez featured on the SD Union-Tribune, Oct 14, 2021
- Associate Professor Monique van Genderen's Afterimages at Vielmetter Los Angeles CA, on view Oct 9 - November 20, 2021
- MFA Alum Iana Quesnell’s Performing the Landscape at SWC Art Gallery, Chula Vista CA. Reception: Oct 29, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. On view through Oct 28, 2021
- MFA Perry Vasquez, among the recipients of the SDVAN San Diego Art Prize 2021, featured among the winners show at SD Bread & Salt, Oct 9 - Dec 31, 2021. Opening, Sat Oct 9th, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- MFA Candidate Chanell Stone in Burying one's feet in the landscape at the Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco (MX), Oct 1, 2021 - Feb 13, 2022
- Assistant Professor Janelle Iglesias in Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice, Oct 1 - Nov 27, 2021, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden (UT) Link: https://ogdencontemporaryarts.org/vida-muerte-justicia-life-death-justice/
- Remembering Artist Hung Liu (MFA Alum) at the Oakland Museum of California, Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
- MFA Alum Glenna Jennings: At Table at the Florida Museum of of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Sep 24, 2021 - Jan 23, 2022. Artist Talk on Friday, Nov 26, 2021, 6:00 pm ET
- MFA Alum Moyra Davey featured in Art Basel, Switzerland, Sept 20 -26, 2021
- MFA Alum Lorna Simpson: Everrrithing at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles (CA), Sep 14, 2021 - Jan 9, 2022
- MFA Alum Alida Cervantes’ El desastre que dejaste (The disaster you left) on view at Best Practice, San Diego, Sep 11 - Oct 15, 2021. Reception: Sep 11, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
- MFA Alum Lisa Korpos in OPAF 2021. OPAF: 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro (CA), Sep 11 - 12, 2021, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
- MFA Alum Jamilah Sabur in Sensing Nature at the MOMENTA Biennale, Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, Sep 8 - Oct 24, 2021
- New 2022 Wall Calendars Feature Celebrated Black Women Artists Faith Ringgold (Professor Emerita) and Alma Thomas, Sep 6, 2021
- UG Alum Diana Benavídez’s Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration featured at the Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, Sep 4 - Dec 4, 2021
- MFA Alum Lorna Simpson: Heads at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Sep 3, 2021 - Feb 13, 2022
- The UC San Diego Visual Arts Department remembers MFA Alum Yolanda Lopez. Yolanda Lopez died on September 3, 2021 of natural causes. She was 78 and is featured on ARTnews, The Washington Post, San Diego KUSI, CALIFORNIA News Times, Mission Local, LA Times, etc.
- Professor Teddy Cruz's El Santuario Frontera is featured in the NY Times, Sep 2, 2021
- Assoc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in the Wallpaper* Sept 2021 Issue
- MFA Candidate Isidro Pérez García Awarded Bertha Lebus Fellowship
- MFA Alum Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington (DC) on view, Aug 27, 2021 - May 30, 2022
- Un-forgetting History with Hung Liu (MFA Alum) Podcast from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
- Apocalypse in Motion video works screening, Co-curated by UG Alum Alan Luna, features MFA Alumni Kate Clark, Carolina Montejo, and Alexandra Neuman at The Front Arte Y Cultura, San Ysidro (CA), Saturday, Aug 21, 2021, 3:30 pm
- MFA Alum Hung Liu's Santa Fe Turner Carrol Gallery Retrospective Opening Weekend, August 20-21, 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on the Feminist art: a graphic history told in new book by its four pioneers on the Wallpaper* Aug 2021 Issue
- Professor Anya Gallaccio’s The Light Pours Out of Me is featured on the Daily Record (UK), Aug 16 and the Mirror (UK) Aug 15, 2021
- MFA Alum Crystal Z Campbell featured on The Oklahoman, Aug 15 2021
- UG Alumni Marisa DeLuca & Lizelle Lopez Aguilar organize the Second Annual Auction for Migrant Families and Children featuring many artists, including MFA Candidate Taylor Chapin, Aug 15, 5:00 pm - Aug 28, 10:00 pm
- MFA Candidates Taylor Chapin and Sabrina Piersol featured in the Road Show exhibition on view at the False Cast, Santa Monica (CA) opening on Aug 13, 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold in The Women Who Changed Art Forever: Feminist Art – The Graphic Novel, out Aug 31 from Laurence King Publishing
- Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres & Lecturer Lorena Gomez Mostajo present MEXIPUNX, the risograph printed book that includes Rubén's photographs of the post-punk scene in Mexico City in the 80s at the Pulqueria Los Insurgentes, Mexico City MX, Aug 12, 7:00 pm
- Artforum Tribute to MFA Alum Hung Liu, Aug 9, 2021
- MFA Alum Hung Liu featured on The Wall Street Journal, Aug 6, 2021
- The UC San Diego Visual Arts Deparment and the artworld remembers our dear MFA Alumna Hung Liu. Hung Liu died on August from natural causes. She was 73 and is featured on CNN, artnet, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc.
- MFA Alum Christopher Kardambikis: Opening Up the Paper Cuts Collection is featured at the Center for Book Arts, Aug 6, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30pm EDT. The zoom link is provided upon registration
- MFA Alum Hung Liu featured in Interlaced at the Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto (CA), with a Reception Aug 14, 6:00 pm. On view Aug 5 - Oct 1, 2021
- Oceanographic Art and Science: Navigating the Pacific for Getty PST 2024 is a project led by by Professor Lisa Cartwright and include Professor Amy Adler, Associate Professor Elizabeth Newsome, PhD candidate Joe Riley, Assistant Professor Alena J. Williams, Associate Professor Pinar Yoldas and MFA Grace Grothaus. It is a region-wide collaboration of 45 Southern California exhibitions and programs supported by the Getty Foundation
- Quote by Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold inspires a mural. Read about it on the Columbus Underground, Aug 2, 2021
- MFA Alum Grace Grothaus Collaboration for Research Communications Program. Conversation at youtube.com
- Assistant Professors Danielle Dean and Jordan Rose awarded the UC San Diego 2021-22 Hellman Fellowships
- Professor Anya Gallacio is a recipient of the UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities 2021 Student Mentoring Award
- MFA Candidates Mika Castaneda and Amir Saadiq featured in the online 2021 SoCal MFA Exhibition SoCal MFA Exhibition
- Curated by MFA Alum Julia Westerbeke the ongoing online exhibition, The Red Wood, features various MFA Alumni
- PhD Candidate Brianne Itaya is the recipient of the 2021 Fletcher Jones Foundation of Los Angeles Fellowship
- PhD Candidate Joe Riley is the recipient of the 2021-22 Institute for Practical Ethics Fellowship
- MFA Alum Dustin Brons, recipient of the New Generation Photography Award 2021, and all 2020 and 2021 recipients will be featured in a group show at the National Gallery of Canada on view through Nov 14, 2021
- MFA Alum Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) on view at the de Young museum in San Francisco (CA), July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022
- MFA Alum Omar Pimienta in conversation at the Lux Art Institute via zoom on Jul 15, 2021, 2:00 pm
- MFA Alum Crystal Z Campbell featured in Art 365 in both Tulsa at Living Arts (Jul 2 - Aug 6, 2021) and Oklahoma City at ARTSPACE at Untitled (Aug 19 - Sep 18, 2021)
- Several Visual Arts Alum and Affiliates in SD Practice featured in a public art exhibition of the acquired artworks by the City of San Diego (City) at SDAI and Bread & Salt, San Diego (CA), July 10 - September 5, 2021
- MFA Alum Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College (CA), Jul 22 - Dec 19, 2021
- Associate Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Between at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison (WI), Jul 10, 2021 - Feb 13, 2022
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on CBS Monday Morning. You can watch it on youtube at: https://youtu.be/IZ-VvOep2D8, Jul 2021
- MFA Alum Kate Clark, Carolina Montejo, Alexandra Neuman, Yasmine Kasem in And We Will Sing in the Tall Grass Again, Co-curated by UG Alum Alan Luna at The Front Arte Cultura, San Ysidro (CA), July 1 - Sep 1, 2021
- MFA Alum Suzanne Wright mentioned on TIMEOUT NY, Jul 1, 2021
- Professor and Visual Arts Chair Amy Adler and MFA Alumna Crystal Z. Campbell among the recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowships 2021
- MFA Alum Jean Lowe presents Your Place in the Multiverse with text by Distinguished Professor John C. Welchman at NEHMA, Utah State University (UT), Jun 19 - Dec 12, 2021
- PhD Candidate Jonah Gray on Image Bank at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, June 18 - Aug 22, 2021
- MFA Alexandra Neuman in There was earth in them, and they dug. Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn (NY), June 10 - Aug 8, 2021
- MFA Candidate Taylor Chapin: Consumption Capital on view at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA, June 5 - Sept 12, 2021
- MFA Alumni Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems in 30 Americans on view at the Arlington Museum of Art, May 29 - Sept 5, 2021
- Asst Professor Pinar Yoldas in Venice Architecture Biennale, May 22 - Nov 21, 2021, at the Giardini, the Arsenale, and Forte Marghera, Italy
- Associate Professor & Chair Ricardo Dominguez and MFA Alumni Cog•nate Collective (MFA Alum Misael Diaz and Amy Sanchez Arteaga) and David Avalos in Intergalactix at LACE, Los Angeles (CA), May 15 - Aug 14, 2021
- MFA Candidate Oscar Magallanes & 3B Collective present By Way Of at Best Practice, San Diego, May 8 - June 26, 2021
- Professor Teddy Cruz Mellon Grant for Community Stations
- MFA Alum Sadie Barnette Featured in Film Tell Them We Were Here
- Associate Professor Brian Cross video for Damian Marley's Life is a Circle featured on RollingStone
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in Designing Women III: MOTHER on view May 3- 29, 2021 (by appointment) at the Egg Collective in New York City
- Assistant Professor Danielle Dean Visiting Artist Lecture at the Rutgers, New Brunswick NJ, April 30, 2021
- Measurements of Progress: Graduating MFA Exhibition at the San Diego Art Institute, April 23-May 30, 2021
- MFA Alum Glenn Kaino in Monumental Perspectives at LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in Storytellers at the Museum of Art DeLand, March 26 June 6, 2021
- Danielle Dean (Asst. Professor), Janelle Iglesias (Asst. Professor), Trish Stone (Lecturer), and Yasmine Kasem (MFA Alum) featured in Illumination at the San Diego Art Institute RSVP to view Illumination in-person from Friday, March 26 through Sunday, March 28 from 12-4pm
- Professor Benjamin Bratton featured on the Deep City: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital, International Latsis Symposium, March 24–26, 2021
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured on the East Bay Express, Mar 9, 2021
- The Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates Women's History Month with an online collection exhibition including Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumna Hung Liu
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette will deliver a free virtual lecture and Q&A on March 30, beginning at 6:00pm, sponsored by the Zimmerli Art Museum and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. This lecture is part of an ongoing series of programs related to the Zimmerli’s upcoming exhibition, Angela Davis—Seize the Time, for which Barnette is developing a new installation and will be on view Sep 01, 2021 - Dec 30, 2021. New Jersey Stage, Mar 3, 2021
- Professor Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman) featured on The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design virtual event "Piggybacking Practices: A Symposium on Architecture and Inequality" on March 15 and 22, via Zoom for two consecutive Mondays in March. Sessions will take place from 4-6 p.m. each day
- International Faith Ringgold (Professor Emerita) Monographic Exhibition to Open at Glenstone Museum in Spring 2021, Mar 8 - Oct 24 2021
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in Renegades at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe (NM), Mar 5-Apr 30, 2021
- Perry Vasquez, who completed graduate work at UC San Diego is a recipient of The San Diego Art Price 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson to become new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters according to the Associated Press Mar 7, 2021
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in The World Stage on view at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Mar 14-Feb 7, 2021
- MFA Alum Kip Fulbeck featured on NBC News, Feb 28, 2021
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell featured in the Four by Four (4x4) 2020: Midwest Invitational Exhibition at the Springfield Art Museum, Feb 27, 2021-June 27, 2021
- MFA Candidate Kevin Vincent: Material Memory at the Oceanside Museum of Art (CA), Feb 20 - Jul 3, 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems in Black Art: In The Absence Of Light debuts on HBO & HBO Max, Feb 9, 2021, 9:00 p.m.
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell featured in Assembly of Images/Always Moving screening at the San Francisco Cinematheque, Feb 8-Apr 30, 2020
- Professor Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman will present at the Archinects ongoning Get Lectured Series on Feb 8, 2021, 6:00 pm
- MFA Alumna Angie Jennings featured in All That Spring Promises at the Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles (CA), Feb 6-Mar 20, 2021
- Storytellers: Faith Ringgold + Aminah Robinson showcases the work of two game-changing African-American artists at Ringling College featured on the Herald Tribune, Feb 5, 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems in Black Art: In The Absence Of Light debut on HBO & HBO Max featured on KOTTKE.ORG and on Artsy, Feb 5, 2021
- Assistant Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas' Hollow Ocean: Emotional Learning in the Service of Eco-Activist keynote talk at the Duke University The 2021 Graduate Student Symposium, Feb 5, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
- A Tribute to Carrie Mae Weems (MFA Alumna) at the MoMA (NY), Feb 2, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
- Assoc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya Interviewed on White Hot Magazine, Feb 2021
- Alumna Charity Algarme's After the Flood, Hope on view at the Starkow Gallery, San Diego, through Feb 15, 2021
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems's RESIST COVID / TAKE 6! Reaches Durham at the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (NC), featured on INDYWEEK, Jan 27, 2021
- The Earl of Grey exhibition by Professor Emerito Kim MacConnel at Quint ONE Gallery, La Jolla, Jan 30-Feb 27, 2021
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured in Time and Place at the Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills (CA), Jan 30-Mar 13, 2021
- MFA Alumni Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy Present Tally Saves the Internet ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS, Jan 29, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
- MFA Alumna micha cárdenas featured in the not, of, along, or relating to a line exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi, Jan 20-Jul 10, 2021
- Asst. Professor Pinar Yoldas Online Talk for Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Jan 18, 2021, 8:00 am
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson's take on Rihanna featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Jan 16, 2021
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo mentioned on the Metropolis Magazine, Jan 15, 2021
- MFA Alumna Iana Quesnell featured in the Lux Regional Artist Reception and Artist Talk in the live stream presentation, Jan 14, 2021, 6:00 pm
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson's take on Rihanna featured on the cover of ESSENCE, Jan 14, 2021
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo featured on artnet news, Jan 13, 2021
- Lecturer Dino Dinco and Students Curate FILM MAUDIT 2.0 at the Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica CA, Jan 12-24, 2021
- Storytellers: Faith Ringgold (Professor Emerita) + Aminah Robinson featured at the Ringling College Gallery, Jan 11-Feb12, 2021
- Late Professor Emeritus Manny Farber's exhibition From the Mid-Eighties on view at Quint Gallery, Jan 7-28, 2021
- Assoc. Professor Monique Van Genderen Each of these Paintings Can Be Named After a Famous Painter Online at GALLERYPLATFORM.LA and on VIELMETTER.COM, Jan 7-20, 2021
- MFA Alumna Julia Westerbeke curated show The Red Woods featured on the Sonoma News, Jan 1, 2021
- MFA Alumna Patricia Montoya mentioned on the Eugene Weekly, Dec 24, 2020
- The Cleveland Museum of Art acquired works by Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin and MFA Alumna Martha Roser, Dec 21, 2020
- Assoc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Drop Scene at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha (NE), Dec 10, 2020-Apr 24, 2021
- MFA Alumna micha cardenas featured art game at the NYU-Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Exhibition titled not in, of, along, or relating to a line mentioned on The National News, Dec 9, 2020
- MFA Alumna Patricia Montoya featured in De Clores at the Springfield, OR, Emerald Art Center, Dec 9-31, 2020
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu appointed as the SFMoma Board of Trustees Artist Trustee
- The PostRational Foundation presents late PhD student Sascha Pohflepp in Practice, Dec 5, 2020, 9:00 am
- MFA Alumna Ava Porter's Wild Honey opens DocuSlate 2020, New Filmmakers LA's annual documentary film festival. Online Dec 4-6, 2020
- MFA Alum Guillermo Estrada’s Aliendigenismo on view at the Residencia 797, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette’s More Alive, featured at Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach, Dec 2-6, 2020
- MFA Alumna Julia Westerbeke curates The Red Wood, an ongoing, online exhibition featuring over 30 predominantly from the West Coast artists including MFA Alumni Sharon Levy, Glenna Jennings, Clare Parry and Zac Monday
- Professor Amy Alexander will present “Always only once.” The Paradox of Preservation: From Expanded Cinema to Performative Algorithms at 12:10 am (midnight) PST, December 3rd, 2020.
- Virtual Views: Faith Ringgold, an online exhibition by MoMA of Professor Emerita
- PhD Candidate Hande Sever's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her on view at Actual Size, Los Angeles CA , Nov 27-Dec 10, 2020
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change on view at the Toledo Museum in Ohio, Nov 21, 2020-Feb 14, 2021
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette mentioned in HYPERALLERGIC, Nov 18, 2020
- Nasty Women exhibition with a feature of MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin in review on HYPERALLERGIC, Nov 16, 2020
- Assoc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya and MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems featured in Rear Window at the White Cube Online Exhibition, Nov 13, 2020 - Jan 19, 2021
- MFA Alumna micha cárdenas' Sin Sol featured at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco in the AFTER LIFE (we survive) exhibition, Nov 9, 2020 through Jan 24, 2021
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in the FAD Magazine, Nov 3, 2020
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in Nasty Women at the Gavlak L.A., Oct 31 - Dec 12, 2020
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in Won't You Be My Neighbor. On view at the Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, Oct 28-Dec 31, 2020
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette featured in the San Jose Museum of Art's exhibition, Barring Freedom. On view through Apr 25, 2021
- Gold Loop (Triad) with Jen Liu at gallery@calit2 with 5:00-7:00pm Artist Talk and Discussion with Ricardo Dominguez, Jen Liu, and Sumeyye Yar. The online exhibition is in three parts: Oct 15, Nov 5 and Nov 26, 2020
- POW! by MFA Alumna and long time lecturer Jean Lowe opens October 13 at Quint ONE, on view through Nov 10, 2020
- We Flew Over the Bridge by Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold is one of the Seven Great Books About Painting for Artists and Art Lovers according to ARTnews, Oct 16, 2020
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems Takes Over Lincoln Center to Highlight COVID-19 Impact on Communities of Color featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Oct 15, 2020
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin featured in Women Breaking Boundaries at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Oct 11, 2020-Jan 10, 2021
- MFA Alumna Jamilah Sabur featured in Mending the Sky at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct 10, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021
- The Batista Syndrome by Professor Emerito Steve Fagin in review on LARB, Oct 1, 2020
- PhD Alum Matthew Jarvis Hosts NWU Nights of Horror, a multidisciplinary academic e-event that seeks to engage academics, students, and professionals in the field of horror on view Oct 1-31, 2020
- Professor Amy Alexander featured in online exhibition APPEARANCES on view Sep 26-Oct 24, 2020 at the Upstream Gallery in NY
- Alumni Kim Garcia and Lawrence Chit featured in the online exhibition Backyard on view at the DXIX L.A. Gallery Sep 19-Oct 31, 2020
- Observations: Selected Works by MFA Alumna Jamilah Sabur on view at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, Sep 17-Dec 11, 2020
- MFA Alum Louis Schmidt Curated Group Exhibition Including MFA Alumni Alida Cervantes and Jesse Mockrin at the Galerie Droste in Wuppertal Germany, Sep 12-Nov 7, 2020
- Asst. Professor Danielle Dean featured in the LABYRINTH on view at the EPOCH Gallery, Sep 5-Oct 23, 2020
- Assoc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya Exhibition at Galerie Peter Kilchmann in Zurich, Sep 12-Oct 17
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems mentioned on ARTSPACE, Aug 26, 2020
- MFA Alumni mentioned on kpbs, Aug 19
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu in Retrospect at the Turner Carroll Gallery opens on Aug 14, 2020, 3-7 pm
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell's short film Reflect | Project premiers online at M-AAA Kansas on Aug 7, 2020, 8:30 pm
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo's Reverberation on view at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Aug 13, 2020, through Apr 18, 2021
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured on Artsy, Aug 3
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in the 50x50 online exhibition by the San Jose Museum of Art
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in Endless Lows, Breaking High on view at the Rolando Anselmi Gallery in Berlin through Aug 30th
- The COLLIDER features Pierrot le fou, a film written by Jean-Luc Godard and narrated by Professor Emeritus J.P. Gorin, Jul 15
- Amy Alexander featured at the xCoAx 2020: 8th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. Opening: Wednesday, July 8th, 6:00 PM CEST, on view through July 10th
- Danielle Dean and Trish Stone featured in Illumination at the San Diego Art Institute
- MFA Alum Tim Schwartz's article featured on TRUTHOUT, Jul 3
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell's essay featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Jul 3
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu's Through the Window (2020) painting featured on Northwest Asian Weekly, Jul 2
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simson featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Jun 27
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in Force Majeure at the Night Gallery in L.A., Jun 27-Jul 25
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in The World Stage at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, on view through Feb 7, 2021
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems’ Blue Black Boy (1997) featured on a news story on The New Yorker, June 15, 2020
- MFA Alumna micha cardenas featured in The @Salon: Queer Sound 2020
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on The Dong-A, Jun 4
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo feaured in the new Brooklyn's outdoor exhibition, Jun 1
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Jun 1
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey's Index Cards on review on the arts desk, May 31
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey featured on The New York Times Style Magazine, May 29
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured in ARTFORUM, May 2020
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey featured in Art in America, May 26
- MFA Alum Christopher Kardambikis featured in TysonsToday, May 6
- Film Tout Va Bien, co-directed by Professor Emeritus JP Gorin, a top five streaming film according to WAtoday, May 5
- Making Art History: Inside MFA Alumna Hung Liu's Studio with Smithsonian Curator Dorothy Moss
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in the 2020 Dallas Art Fair on view online through April 23.
- UC San Diego ranked as #10 Best Fine Arts Program for MFA
- MFA alum Sindhu Thirumalaisamy wins Best Documentary Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival
- MFA alum Bill Basquin interview in Gender & Women's Studies at U. Wisconsin-Madison
- MFA candidate Asa Mendelsohn review of film by MFA alum Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
- Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres featured in HYPERALLERGIC, Mar 10, 2020
- MFA Alumn Carrie Mae Weems inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters
- MFA Alum Bill Basquin's premiere film screening of From Inside Here at MoMA (NY), Postponed
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured in Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric at the Kasmin Gallery (NY), Reception on Mar 5, 6-8PM, Show on view through Apr 11, 2020
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in the Burned: Women and Fire exhibition at the Santa Fe (NM) Turner Carroll Gallery, Feb 28-Apr 4, 2020
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in VOGUE, Mar 2020
- MFA Alumna & Lecturer Ava Porter and Farhad Akhmetov present a film screening of Wild Honey at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Sunday, Feb 23, 4:15 PM
- Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya Artist Talk at the Blaffer Museum, Houston (TX), Feb 22, 4-5:30 PM
- Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya in New Visions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Havikodden (NO), Feb 21-May 16 2020
- MFA Alumna Stefani Byrd in Input/Output at the MCC Art Gallery in Mesa, AZ, Reception on Feb 20, 6-9 PM, Show on view through Mar 19, 2020
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo: Core Reflections, Reception Feb 22, 3:30-5:00 PM, Show on view through Jun 28, 2020
- Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Masculinities at the Barbican Gallery in London (UK), Feb 20-May 17, 2020
- MFA Alum Joe Yorty in Fear No Art, curated by PhD Alumna Lara Bullock, Reception Feb 15, 12-2PM, Show on view through May 17, 2020
- MFA Alum Zeb Zan curated Video In / Video Out at the Coquit Gallery in LA, Reception on Feb 15, 5-7 PM
- MFA Alumna Vabianna Santos: Space is Noise, Reception Feb 13, 6-9 PM, Show on view through Feb 16, 2020
- Professor Emeritus Manny Farber featured on Hyperallergic, Feb 14, 2020
- MFA Alumni Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy in NC Artist Fellowship: Escapes and Revelations at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Feb 13-Jun 7, 2020
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo at the Felix Art Fair Los Angeles (CA), Feb 13-16, 2020
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured on Frieze, Feb 12 2020
- Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres' PLATA O PLOMO O GLITTER at the LAs royale projects, Feb 9-Apr 11, 2020
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson featured in the Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles in the Frieze Projects section, Feb 14-16
- Alumna Rita Gonzalez co-curates the Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles at the Paramount Pictures backlot, Feb 14-16
- PhD Alumni Noni Brynjolson and Paloma Checa-Gismero and PhD Candidates Julia Fernandez and Gina Kim, and MFA Candidate Carolina Montejo to present at the 108th CAA Annual Confrence in Chicago, Feb 12-15, 2020
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin to receive the Distinguished Award for Lifetime Achievement at the CAA 2020 and Professor Teddy Cruz to receive the Alfred H Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museum, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions for his co-collaboration to Denise Murrell's Posing Modernity (2018) , Wed, Feb 12, 6:00 PM at the Hilton Chicago
- Asst. Professors Danielle Dean and Janelle Iglesias, Lecturer Trish Stone and MFA Alumna Yasmine Kasem in Illumination at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park, San Diego (CA)
- Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres's retrospective Customatismo in LA Times
- UG alum Helen Molesworth writing about the new MoMA in Artforum
- MFA Alumna Nina Waisman in A Message to Space at the Supercollider Gallery in Inglewood (CA), Jan 18-Mar 8, 2020
- MFA Alumna Katie Herzog: Yankee Candle at the Klowden Mann in Culver City (CA), Jan 18-Feb 22, 2020
- MFA Alumna micha cárdenas in Taking a Stand at the Stamps School of Art & Design - Univ. of Michigan, Jan 17-Feb 29, 2020
- Assistant Professor Pinar Yoldas in Eco-Visionaries reviewed in Hyperallergic
- MFA Alumni Angie Jennings and Matt Savitsky in Someone Ele's Ghost at the MiM Gallery in Los Angeles (CA), Jan 10-Feb 29, 2020
- MFA Alumni Ruth Wallen (Lecturer) and Jean Lowe (Lecturer) featured in ENDANGERED at the CA Center for the Arts in Escondido, on view through Mar 8, 2020
- MFA alum Kara Joslyn a Critics' Pick in Artforum
- Assistant Professor Nicole Miller's film To the Stars in Hyperallergic
- Associate Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya named one of Out's 100 Artists of the Year
- Professor Ruben Ortis Torres and MFA Alumna Yvonne Venegas featured in the LA Times, Dec 27, 2019
- Professors Emeriti Faith Ringgold & Kim MacConnel (also MFA alum) at The Whitney
- Professor Grant Kester publication of FIELD Journal Issue 14
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin featured in The Conversation (UK), Nov 21, 2019
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin at Artissima 2019 in Torino, Italy representing Night Gallery in Hall Brown, Booth 3, Oct 31-Nov 3
- Professor Emerito and MFA Alum Kim MacConnel in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in America 1972-1985 at MOCA Los Angeles (CA), Oct 27-May 11, 2020
- Prof Kyong Park Featured in Archinect, Oct 23, 2019
- MFA Alum Matt Savitsky featured in "HOUSE of FEAR" by The Family Room Collective in a show coordinated by MFA Alumna Erika Ostrander at the CSUN Art Gallery in Northridge, CA, and it is on view Oct 26-Dec 7 with the reception on Nov 23, 5-7PM
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured on The New York Times for her show "The Marks of a Stranger" at Nathalie Karg Gallery on view through Oct 27 in Manhattan
- MFA Alum Bill Basquin's "Deer Census" will be screening as part of the Flaherty NYC program at Anthology Film Archive, Monday, Oct 28, 2019, 7PM
- Professor Anya Gallaccio's "Stroke" at Blum & Poe in Culver City, CA, Oct 15-22, 2019
- CA Center for The Arts Celebrates its 2th year with an exbhibition including late Professor Ernest Silva and MFA Alumni Jean Lowe and Doris Bittar among others. On view through Dec 1, 2019
- MFA Candidate Juan Bastardo in "Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise" at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. Reception on Oct 5, 6-8PM and is on view through January 12, 2020
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu's "The Long Way Home" exhibition in review
- MFA Alumna Jamilah Sabur featured in "10-A Decade" and "Save As" at Dimensions Variable in Miami, Sep 30-Dec 30, 2019
- MFA Alumna Sharon Levy: Canopy at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana (CA), Nov 2 2019-Feb 16, 2020
- MFA Candidates Asa Mendelsohn, dana washington, and MFA Alumni Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Paolo Zuñiga featured in "Circadian Regions" at the Broad Art Center, Los Angeles. Reception on Sep 27, 5-8PM and is on view through Oct 10, 2019
- Asst Professor Nicole Miller's "To The Stars" screenings at the SF MoMA, Sep 22, 11AM & Sep 24 2PM
- MFA Alumna Nina Waisman's "internatural 1" performance at the South Tufa Area, Mono Lake, CA, Sep 21, 5:30 & 6:45PM
- MFA Alum Bill Basquin will present at the &NOW 2019 Festival on Sep 21, 3:00-4:15PM at the Univ of Washington, Bothell
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu's "The Long Way Home" on view at the Grace Museum in Abilene, TX, Sep 7, 2019 - Feb 22, 2020
- MFA Alum Sam Wohl's "Defect Traces" is featured at 3235 1/2 Fletcher in LA, Sep 20-27
- UG Alumna Diana Benavidez's "The Piñata as a Narrative" is featured at the Teros Gallery in San Diego, Sep 20-Oct 4
- MFA Alumni Sam Wohl's "Guantes Saben" and Paolo Zuñiga's "Lacustre" to screen at Cine Tonala in Tijuana Mexico, Sep 18, 7:30PM
- MFA Alum J Noland featured at Best Practice Sep 7-Oct 4
- UG Alumna Diana Benavidez in "Anthropocene: Humans & Nature" at the Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, San Diego, Sep 6-28
- UG Alumna Lissa Corona's "You Could Have Gone To Heaven" at the Swish Projects, San Diego, Sep 6-16
- MFA Candidate Kelechi Agwuncha screening "Hoops" web series at the Swish Projects, San Diego, Thu Aug 15, 2019
- MFA Alum Abe King's "Blissful Catastrophe of RGB" on view at LACDA, August 8-31, 2019
- Alum Patty Chang discusses how performance has evolved in her work
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Aug 5, 2019
- MFA Alum Roman de Salvo's "Chollas Realm" will be unveiled at Arts Park at Chollas Creed, on Sat, Jul 27, 12:30-2PM
- MFA Alumna Angie Jennings' "Familiar Spirit" featured at Best Practice, Jul 27-Aug 24
- The 2019 Edinburgh Art Festival will include works by Professor Anya Gallaccio, Jul 25-Aug 25, 2019 (UK)
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu's "Catchers" on view at the Turner Carrol Gallery in Santa Fe (NM), Jul 19-Aug 9, 2019
- MFA Candidate DS Chapman and MFA Alumni Sarah Farnsworth, Jessica Buie and Kate Clark featured in "A Show About Touching" at Bread & Salt in San Diego, July 13-Sep 28
- MFA Davina Semo's new exhibition at Parts & Labor Beacon on view Jul 13-Sep 1, 2019, in New York
- MFA Alum Roman de Salvo Guest Lecture at the Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park, Jul 8, 2019
- UG alumni Justin McHugh, Lissa Corona, and Nick Lesley in Parallel Screens at Porto Vista’s 1805 Gallery in San Diego, Jul 5-Aug 11, 2019
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in the Diehl Gallery's 15th annual Fête, Jackson (WY), Jun 29-Jul 14, 2019
- MFA Candidate dana washington's "Forging Territories" at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park, Jun 29-Nov 3
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin's "Abduction," 2018 was acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art, Jun 21, 2019
- Professor Anya Gallaccio's installation at the Ingleby Gallery on review on THE SCOTSMAN, Jun 20, 2019
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Jun 19, 2019
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin featured on GO LONDON, Jun 18, 2019
- Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres featured in "Specific Abstractions" at the Charlie James Gallery in LA, Reception: Jun 15, 6-9PM; On view through Jul 20, 2019
- MFA Alum David White in collaboration with MCASD's Teen Advisory Group new exhibition "A Place to Call Your Own," at MCASD, opens on Saturday, Jun 15 noon-2PM, on view through Jun 30, 2019
- On Saturday, Jun 15, 6-9PM, Best Practice in Barrio Logan opens “Hanging the Bear Cache,” a new exhibition by MFA Alumna Audrey Hope in collaboration with Keir GoGwilt on view through Jul 13
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson featured on The New York Times, Jun 13, 2019
- MFA Candidate Bailey Davenport mentioned on HYPERALLERGIC, Jun 11, 2019
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on THE TIMES (UK), Jun 7, 2019
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold at the London Serpentine Gallery, Jun 7-Sep 8, 2019
- DXIX presents Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres, PhD Candidate Javier Fresneda and Alumna Kim Garcia featured in "MICROLOGIES" and a conversation with MFA Alum Aitor Lajarin at Scharaun, Berlin, Opening June 7, 5-10PM; Talk June 8, 8PM
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on The Guardian (NY), Jun 4, 2019
- MFA Alum Roman de Salvo featured on the Voice of San Diego, Jun 4, 2019
- MFA Alumna Yvonne Venegas' photos featured on the FINANCIAL TIMES, May 30, 2019
- Professor Anya Gallaccio's work featured at the National Galleries Scotland, Jun 1-Sep 22, 2019
- MFA Candidate Bailey Davenport featured on the UC San Diego THE GUARDIAN, May 30, 2019
- MFA Alum Kip Fulbeck featured on ArtsHub Australia, May 29, 2019
- PhD Alumna Rhonda Taube's Lecture on Contemporary Guatemalan Masquerade featured at the Fowler Museum at UCLA on Sat, Jun 8, 2-3PM
- MFA Alum Kip Fulbeck's "Perseverance: Japanese Tatoo Tradition in a Modern World" at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Canada, on view through Oct 6, 2019
- MFA Alumna Sindhu Thirumalaisamy's "The Lake and the Lake" screening on Fri, May 24, 8PM, at the Artists' Televistion Access in San Francisco
- MFA Candidate John Dombroski at the A SHIP IN THE WOODS, Sat May 18, 1-10PM
- MFA Tanya Brodsky's new installation, "YOLKI PALKI" at Plummer Park in West Hollywood on view through June 2020. Special event with walkthrough with artist and curator on Sat, May 18, 4-5:30PM
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson's new show at Hauser & Wirth, "Darkening" featured in THE NEW YORKER, May 14 2019
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold's Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery London opens June 6-Sept 8
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin's "Time's Arrow" opens at LACMA, May 12-July 7, at the Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette: "The New Eagle Creek Saloon" at THE LAB (San Francisco), May 11-Jun 30, 2019
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey featured on artnet news, May 9, 2019
- Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres Featured in Frieze New York May 2-5 at the Randall's Island Park
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold's "Human Spectrum" on view at the Sugarhill Museum of Art and Storytelling (NY), May 2-Sept 22
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey's Scotiabank Photography Award Exhibition on view at the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto, May 1-Aug 4
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay's "Bad Sin Frutas" in review on the Contemporary Art Review .la, May 1, 2019
- MFA Alum Artie Vierkant featured in the Seven on Seven 2019 at the New Museum Theater and Sky Room (NY), Apr 27, 2019
- Professor Brian Cross (aka B+) featured in "Contact High" at the Annenberg Space for Photography in LA, Apr 26-Aug 18, 2019
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson's "Darkening" at HAUSER & WIRTH (NY), Apr 25-Jul 26, 2019
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay's show "Bad Sin Frutas" in review on ARTILLERY, Apr 24, 2019
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay's show "Bad Sin Frutas" in review on Los Angeles Times, Apr 23, 2019
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin's "Syrinx," Catalogue Release Reception at LAs Night Gallery, Sunday, April 21st, 4–6PM
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay featured in AUTRE, Apr 19, 2019
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin featured in Artsy's "What Makes a Figurative Painting Good?" Apr 11 2019
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell featured in the 2019 IdeasCity New Orleans, Apr 15-20
- Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres and Alumna Rita Gonzalez featured on the DAILY TROJAN, Apr 4 2019
- MFA Alumni Christopher Kardambikis and Louis M Schmidt featured in the 2019 Art Book Fair in LA, Apr 12-14 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold's feature in "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" in Review on the Los Angeles Times
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in "America Will Be!" on view Apr 6-Oct 6 at the Dallas Museum of Art
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey feature in "snap+share" at the San Francisco MoMA, Mar 30-Aug 4, 2019
- MFA Alumna Nina Katchadourian featured on HYPERALLERGIC, Mar 30, 2019
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay's Solo Exhibition "Bad Sin Frutas" on view Mar 30-May 4, with an Opening Reception on Sat, Mar 30, 6-8PM, at the Klowdenmann Gallery in Culver City (LA area)
- The Hammer Museum to feature Lecturer Raul Guerrero on the Allen Ruppersberg Artist Walk-Throughs on Thursday, Mar 21, 6PM
- MFA candidate Juan Bastardo solo exhibition "Parece que he estado jugando, pero no es así/ It seems like I´ve been playing, but it's not like that" on view at Espacio Tolsá on Mar 22, 7PM in Guadalajara, Mexico
- MFA Alumna Doris Bittar's "Visible Migration Patterns" on view, Mar 25-Apr 25. Reception on Thursday, Mar 28, 7-9PM, at El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance (CA)
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold's show at the 2019 Armory Show featured on i-D (US), Mar 13, 2019
- MFA Alumna micha cárdenas' collaboration of "Sin Sol" in Review on Art in America, Mar 11, 2019
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on Mutual Art, Mar 8, 2019
- MFA Alum Duncan Shepherd featured on the SD Reader
- Professor Emeriti Patricia Patterson and late Manny Farber mentioned on The NEW YORKER, Feb 28, 2019
- UG Alumna Kim Garcia's solo exhibition at Best Practice in Barrio Logan opens Sat, Mar 16, 6-9PM. The show is on view through Apr 13.
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in "Can't Lock Me UP: Women Resist Silence" at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe (NM), Mar 29-Apr 22, 2019
- Professor Babette Mangolte's "The Sky on Location" featured at the LA Film Forum (Ahmanson Theater-MOCA Grand Avenue) on Thursday, Mar 14, 7PM and 'DANCE/ART/FILM" at the Echo Park Film Center on Friday, Mar 15, 8PM
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in LA on Friday, Mar 8, 8PM
- MFA Alumna Nina Katchadourian at the Fridman Gallery in Manhattan on Thursday, Mar 7, 9:30-11PM. The show is on view through Mar 31.
- Late Professor Emerito Manny Farber mentioned on HYPERALLERGIC
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo mentioned on THE ART NEWSPAPER, Feb 28, 2019
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured in "Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper" from the collection of Cheech Marin at the Muzeo in Anaheim, Feb 23-Jul 14, 2019
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu at Stanford's Studio Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb 21, 5:30PM
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo featured in "Primary Directives" at Marlborough Contemporary (London), Feb 21-Mar 30
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold mentioned on The Manhattan Times News' "An Exhibit on Endurance"
- MFA Alum Walter Sutin featured in "WAX / WANE" at A SHIP IN THE WOODS on Sat, Feb 16, 5-9PM
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in "Transparency" on view through Feb 23 at the National Association of Women Artists (WA, DC)
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo featured in "Show Me as I Want to Be Seen" on view through July 7 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo's show featured on WWD
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold mentioned on ARTNET news, Feb 2019
- MFA Alum and Lecturer Josh Tonies @ Best Practice's New Project Space in Barrio Logan on Kearney Ave opens on Sat, Feb 9, 6PM
- Michael Trigilio's "A Glimmer Exodus Sketchbook" is featured on the TIMES of SAN DIEGO
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in 'Can't Lock Me Up' on view March 29 - April 22 at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe (NM)
- Assistant Professor Pinar Yoldas and MFA Alumna micha cardenas in "Refiguring the Future" Exhibition and Conference in New York on view Feb 8-Mar 31. The Conference is Feb 9-10
- MFA Alumna Vabianna Santos in Artist Dialogue with Bruce Nauman: "Dark" on view Feb 7-Mar 5 at Southwestern College Art Gallery
- MFA Alum Tim Schwartz at the CODEX book fair in SF, Feb 3-6
- Raul Guerrero's "Bar Paintings" at The Gallery @ Michaels in Santa Monica (CA)
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey featured in "Mediums of Exchange" on view through Mar 30 at Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC (NY)
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold in Beacon Online New's "African-American Masterpieces in DeLand" story on "African American Art: We Too Dream America" on view at the Museum of Art -DeLand through March 17
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson to receive the 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal
- Nicole Miller at Photo L.A. Talk on Friday, Feb 1 at 1:30PM
- MFA Alumni Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy at the Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery in Philadelphia with 'The Speed of Thinking' opening on Wed Feb 12
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo's "ALL THE WORLD" in Review
- MFA Alumna Jamilah Sabur' 'A Steep Path' five-channel video installation at the Hammer Projects is on view through May 5
- MFA Alumna Moyra Davey featured in 'Mediums of Exchange' at the Lehman College Art Gallery in NY
- MFA Alum Owen Mundy featured in the "Iconicity" exhibition opening on Jan 26 at the Zuccaire Gallery in the Stony Brook University in NY
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems featured in "Black Refractions" on view Jan 16-Apr 14 at the Museum of the African Diaspora (SF)
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette's "PHONE HOME" on view Jan 16-Apr 14 at the Museum of the African Diaspora (SF)
- Various alumni featured in "GRAY MATTER" at A SHIP IN THE WOODS. Show opens Jan 12.
- Professor Teddy Cruz mentioned in "Breaking Ground on the Newest Cross-Border Community Station"
- Pinar Yoldas and MFA Alumna micha cárdenas, PhD featured in "Refiguring the Future exhibition opening February 8th, 2019 "
- The Fantastic Life of Faith Ringgold (Professor Emerita)
- MICHA CÁRDENAS CREATES ACTIVIST ALGORITHMS FOR GENDER, RACE, AND TECHNOLOGY
- MFA Candidate Yasmine's show "EVERY FRAGMENT • A PRAYER" on view Jan 24 through Feb 23 at the 1805 Gallery
- MFA Alumna Davina Semo's "ALL THE WORLD" at Marlborough Contemporary, NY, on vew through Feb 16, 2019
- Forbes' "5 Exceptional Art Exhibits That Make 2018 Worth Remembering" features Professor Emeriti Helen and Newton Harrison
- MFA Alum Tristan Shone's (aka Author & Punisher) "Beastland" is one of the "Best Metal Records of 2018" according to Dread Central
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold is one of the "10 Black Women Artists to Know" according to Black Excellence newsletter
- Late Professor Emerito Manny Farber's "One Day at at Time" show among the best LA shows of 2018 according to HYPERALLERGIC
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold mentioned in "Finding the Heart of a Nation in Generations of Black Art" feature on HYPERALLERGIC
- MFA Alumna Martha Rosler's Wicked and Welcome Sense of Humor Featured on HYPERALLERGIC
- MFA Alum Tim Schwartz's "RESISTANT SYSTEMS: WELCOME" on view through 12/31/18
- MFA Alum J Noland's "HIGHER POWERS" show at HELMUTH Projects open Dec 14, 7PM and closes on Dec 29, 7PM
- MFA Alumna Erika Ostrander featured in "Valley Girl Redefined" at the 11:11 A Creative Collective and Brand Library & Art Center in North Hollywood
- "This machine kills fascists" is the latest San Diego CityBEAT feature of Author & Punisher (aka MFA Alum Tristan Shone)
- MFA Alumni Bill Basquin, Lyndsay Bloom, Stefani Byrd, Emily Grenader and Candidate Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Nick Lesley featured in "Althernative Projections" at Bread & Salt on view through Dec 29, 2018
- MFA Alumna Jesse Mockrin's "Syrinx" exhibition at Night Gallery, LA, Dec 1, 2018 through Jan 19, 2019 opens on Sat, Dec 1, 7-10PM
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin's "Carving" featured on The Art Newspaper
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in "A Few of Our Favorite Things: A Holiday Exhibition" at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, NM on view Nov 30-Dec 31, 2018
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in the "Michael Jackson: On the Wall" exhibition on view through Feb 14, 2019 at the Grand Palais in Paris
- MFA Candidate Sergio de la Torre featured in the "Sanctuary Print Shop" at the Downtown MCASD Fayman Gallery through Mar 10, 2019
- Assistant Professor Nicole MIller's "For Now" exhibition opens on Saturday, December 1, 5-7 PM at the Kristina Kite Gallery in Los Angeles
- "Being Here With You" with the participation of faculty and MFA alumni is featured on HYPERALLERGIC
- Late Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: "Everyday Objects" exhibition on view through December 29th at Quint Gallery
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems: "How to Develop Your Profound Voice" on the UC San Diego News
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured on de zeen
- MFA Alumna Jamila Sabur featured in the "PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES" exhibition at ArtCenter/South Florida Gallery in Miami Beach on view through December 16, 2018
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu featured in the "40 by 40" exhibition at the Sonoma State University Art Gallery for the gallery's 40 years anniversary celebration
- MFA Alumna "Martha Rosler: Irrespective" on view at the Jewish Museum NY through March 3
- MFA Alumna Martha Rosler Isn't Done Making Protest Art feature on the NY Times
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold and MFA Alumni Hung Liu and Lorna Simpson featured in "Loud Silence" at the Wilkes University's Sordoni Art Gallery and is on view through December 16.
- Cog•nate Collective (Amy Sanchez & MFA Alum Misael Diaz) featured in "From Further Over Here" to open at the San Diego City College's City Gallery in conjunction with the 7th "Binational Conference on Border Issues" on November 15th
- MFA Alumna micha cárdenas featured in "Between Bodies" at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle with the project "Sin Sol" including collaboration of Alum Adrian Phillips, among others
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold featured in the NY Times Sugar Hill Museum story
- Founding Editor and Professor of Art History Grant Kester announces FIELD Issue 11
- PhD Alumna Mariola V. Alvarez book "New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America"
- Crafting Emotion From Machines With AUTHOR & PUNISHER (MFA Alum Tristan Shone)
- ACA Galleries to Exhibit 1970s Works by Faith Ringgold, Professor Emerita
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero featured in Flash Art
- Celebrated Alum Carrie Mae Weems Returns to UC San Diego as Part of Dynamic Visual Arts Speaker Series
- Associate Professor Brian Cross (aka B+) exhibition "Freaks of the Industry" at Family Affair
- Professor Nicole Miller and Writer Aruna D’Sousa speak at Mesa College
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin in "Beyond the Age of Reason" at San Diego Art Institute
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems featured in New York Times: "How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making"
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems Featured in Nona Hendryx's created "Refrigerated Dreams", an immersive multimedia installation and concert transforming Joe’s Pub in New York.
- MFA Candidate Abe King Featured in the "OPTICAL" LACDA exhibition on view through November 2nd.
- MFA Alum Tristan Shone (aka Author & Punisher) Featured on the San Diego CityBeat
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold in the Frieze London "Social Work" Section
- The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles presents an ambitious exhibition inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber, Professor Emerito
- PhD Alumna Katrin Pesch screening 'Finding Things I Don't Want To Find' at Digital Gym, San Diego
- Exhibit tries to make Escondido less ‘invisible’ Features MFA Alumni on The Coast News Group
- Rubén Ortiz Torres exhibition 'Mexipunx' at Oficina de Proyectos Culturales (OPC) in Oaxaca
- Assistant Professor Pinar Yoldas creates designer babies based on characteristics of Greek gods and goddesses
- MFA Heejung Shin awarded inaugural David Antin Prize
- MFA Alumna Sheryl Oring at Washington and Lee's Stanair Gallery
- Swizz Beatz curates Sotheby's contemporary art auction including MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson and Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold in 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power' at Brooklyn Museum
- MFA Alumnus Perry Vasquez in San Diego City Beat
- Assistant Profressor Pinar Yoldas included in exhibition that explores the long-term effects of plastics "Plastic Entanglements"
- MFA Alum Morgan Mandalay in exhibitions at the Cat Box Contemporary Queens, NY, BWSMX in Mexico City, the Et Al. Etc in San Francisco and the Andrew Rafacz Gallery Chicago
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu joins 40 nationally and internationally recognized artists in ‘Witness’ Exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon
- MFA Alum Allan Sekula & department founders Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison in Taipei Biennial
- Professor Teddy Cruz working with Casa Familiar on a community minded development in San Ysidro
- Fall Exhibition Opening on Sept 29 At CA Center For The Arts In Escondido Features MFA Alumni-Lecturers
- MFA Alum Tristan Shone aka AUTHOR & PUNISHER at Chicago's Cold Waves Festival 2018
- MFA Alumna Lorna Simpson featured in "Second Look, Twice" on view Sep 19-Dec 16 at the Museum of the African Diaspora (SF)
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin Featured in 'BEYOND THE AGE OF REASON' at the San Diego Art Institute
- BA Alumna Elena Buenrostro forges a career as a Drone Pilot
- BA Alumna Diana Benavidez at Pop Up: Liberty
- MFA Alumna Angie Jennings in SD Voyager
- PhD Alumna Rujeko Hockley is among the Curators of Color featured in New York Times
- MFA Alumna Carrie Mae Weems photographed Spike Lee for the cover of Time Magazine
- Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold, alumni Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems at ICA Boston
- The Criterion Collection presents "Through Her Eyes: A Conversation with Babette Mangolte"
- Professor Emerita Eleanor Antin: Kind Of A Drag - Self-Portraits And Body Politics - Hayward Gallery
- MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell Wins the 2019 Film/Media Grant Award from Mid-America Arts Alliance Organization
- MFA Alumni Martha Rosler, Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems featured in "Constructing Identity in America" on view through Jan 5, 2020 at the Montclair Art Museum (NJ)
- Undergraduate Anika Ullah Continues to Push the Boundaries of Health, Science, and Activism Through Art
- Professor Emeritus Eleanor Antin in Exhibition "Aktion: Conceptual Art and Photography (1960-1980)"
- Assistant Professor Nicole Miller at CAAM Reviewed
- MFA Alumnus Corey Dunlap at 1805 Gallery Reviewed
- Professor Babette Mangolte Films Included in "Female Gaze" Series at Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold Develops Art-Making App Quiltuduko
- Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold's American Flags in Culture Type
- Perry Vasquez at the 'Gates of Heck' Featured on the San Diego CityBeat
- Professor Teddy Cruz honored by Carnegie Corporation as one of 38 Distinguished Immigrants
- MFA Alumna Hung Liu in exhibition "Reclamation" at Helen Day Art Center
- Professor William Tronzo co-organized the international conference "The Palace Unveiled"
- Professor Amy Alexander and Curt Miller debut performance of Utopian Algorithm #1 and version 2.0 of PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System) at international conference "Live Interfaces"
- MFA Candidates Sarah Farnsworth, Maya VanderSchuit, and Alumni Audrey Hope, Allison Wiese in "High-Key: Color in Southern California" at San Diego Art Institute
- MFA Alumnus Patrick Lakey in the exhibition “Machines à penser," at Fondazione Prada
- Lecturer Raul Guerrero Exhibition at Ortuzar Projects
- Professor Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman Featured on the Los Angeles Times
- MFA Exhibition at MCASD in San Diego City Beat
- Professor Anya Gallaccio's New Show Featured on 'THE TIMES' UK
- University Art Gallery Exhibition The Agency of Art in La Jolla Light
- Bradford Young Guest Lecture Featured in UC San Diego News
- MFA Alumna Sadie Barnette Featured in ARTSY's Vanguard List of 'Breakout Talents'
- MFA Alum Kip Fulbeck's Show 'hapa.me' in Review
- Professor Babette Mangolte Featured in 'FRIEZE'
- Faculty Members Celebrated for Seeing the Classroom and World Differently
- Professor Nicole Miller Wins the 2018 Guggehnheim Fellowship
- MFA Candidate Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and MFA Alumna Crystal Z Campbell Win 2018 Flaherty Fellowships