News & Events
A Glimmer Exodus Sketchbook
Exhibition by Associate Teaching Professor Michael Trigilio
January 17 - February 22, 2019, 12-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Reception: January 17, 5-7 p.m.
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Michael Trigilio weaves together more than a dozen works in various media exploring speculative realizations of intergalactic travel, planetary exodus, and themes of political unrest.
Kusama: Infinity
Screening and Conversation with Director Heather Lenz
January 25, 2019
Doors: 8:30 pm, Screening: 9:00 pm
Conversation: Heather Lenz (Director, Producer, Writer) with Amy Adler (Visual Arts Professor and Chair)
Price Center Theatre, UC San Diego
Free for current UC San Diego students with student ID. Presented by A.S. Graphic Studio & UCSD Triton Fest with support from Visual Arts.
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere Guest Lecture
We need a theory to continue.
January 28, 2019, 6 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg., UC San Diego
They will present various works that contemplate the intersections between music, civic action, and historical moments that resonate through distinct musical instrumentation and sonorous traditions.
Indigo
An Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition
December 7, 2018 - February 1, 2019, by appointment
Dean's Office, Jacobs Hall, UC San Diego
This exhibition features pieces created by students, faculty, and alumni from both engineering and artistic fields of study.
Whitney Hubbs
Graduate Lecture Series
February 20, 2019, 7 p.m.
Performance Space, 306 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
With a 20-year history of picture making, Whitney Hubbs explores both straightforward and uncertain modes of image production. Her subject matter has included staged poems to the landscape, the figure in the landscape, self-portraits, and literal and abstract examinations of the female body.
SAVE THE DATE: March 2nd, 2019
MFA Open Studios & PhD Symposium
News
- MFA Alum Owen Mundy featured in the "Iconicity" exhibition opening on Jan 26 at the Zuccaire Gallery in the Stony Brook University in NY
- 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 "
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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