News & Events
Design Fictions: Future Epidemiologies, Ethical Responses, Public Health
Design Fictions are a critical design tool for thinking otherwise about the past, present and future. Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling says that design fictions “suspend disbelief about change." Constructing fictional narratives in various media helps designers think through complex phenomena and explore how various systems might interact. Design fictions shape design paths by investigating and inspiring possible worlds.
Wednesdays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PDT
Sept. 2 w/ Benjamin Bratton | The Revenge of The Real: Functions for Speculation
Sept. 9 w/ Pinar Yoldas | Omnipolis, Social trust, Planetary Health
Sept. 16 w/ Lisa Cartwright | Health Surveillance Infodemic: Design Fiction by Numbers
Sept. 23 w/ Camille Nebeker | Imaging the ethical, legal and social implications of digital contact tracing
Space is limited. Please complete the online form to register for some or all sessions https://forms.gle/WfGXYxtoJjtLhmkS6. Zoom links will be shared with registrants prior to the event.
Celebrating Lesley Stern's New Book: Diary of a Detour
October 9, 2020
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PDT
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/8cCMLw4EZDc
Lesley Stern (Professor Emerita, Visual Arts UCSD) will read from her book followed by a discussion with poet Eileen Myles, film critic Girish Shambu, Ben Doller (Writing Program, Literature Department UCSD) and Lisa Cartwright (Visual Arts and Science Studies UCSD). With a special introduction by Donna Haraway (Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz).
Diary of a Detour is a memoir of living with a chronic form of cancer, but it detours frequently into other genres and cross-disciplinary landscapes. With illustrations by Amy Adler (Visual Arts UCSD).
Wu Tsang
Remote Guest Lecture
October 23, 2020
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. PDT
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/tbOQs-t8Yc4
Wu Tsang is a filmmaker and performance artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary in works that explore hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. Tsang re-imagines racialized, gendered representations beyond the visible frame to encompass the multiple and shifting perspectives through which we experience the social realm.
Salome Asega
Remote Guest Lecture
October 30, 2020
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. PDT
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/_qx8wRTu540
Salome Asega is an artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality. She is currently a Technology Fellow in the Ford Foundation's Creativity and Free Expression program area. Salome is also the co-host of speculative talk show Hyperorpia: 20/30 Vision on bel-air radio, and a director of POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Bushwick.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Russell Lecture with MCASD
November 4, 2020
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. PST
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/1EtbXX-hWLY
Saidiya Hartman
Remote Guest Lecture
December 4, 2020
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. PST
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/dz7LYvK31Uc
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, and Scenes of Subjection. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She has published articles in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Brick, Small Axe, Callaloo, The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.
Publications
Field Journal #16
Founded & Edited by Professor Grant Kester
This issue includes contributions from Professor Ricardo Dominguez, and PhD alumni Noni Brynjolson and Paloma Checa-Gismero, among others.
MFA EXHIBITIONS ONLINE
This site uses materials gathered for the MFA exhibition originally scheduled for Spring 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The exhibition, titled "History of the Present," has been postponed. On the site, you can view a PDF of the catalog, read the essay by PhD candidates Tiffany Beres and Alexanndra Nicholls, and view works by each artist in the 2020 MFA class.
KAMIL GALLERY ONLINE
The Adam D. Kamil Gallery has moved 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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