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Studio Honors Thesis Exhibition Space Between

Reception: June 8, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 5 - June 8, 2023

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This is the final show of this two-quarter studio course, where students are prompted to build a body of work exploring conceptual and formal issues of their own choosing. The bodies of work in this exhibition focus on topics such as human rights, nature, gender roles, technology, and individual identity.

UG Catherine Alderete exhibition Dreaming in Black & White: American Film Noir

June 1 - June 8, 2023

Screenings: 10am-12pm, 5pm-8pm

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This exhibit will put on display physical and digital artifacts representing the tropes of film noir–eroticism of death, oneiric “dreamlike” states, femme fatales, etc. In addition to the archive, there is a screening of La Paloma, in which the 16mm short film is an imitation of the noir style, replicating the cinematography and narrative archetypes representative of the genre. 

Heige Kim MFA Thesis Exhibition out of place

Opening & Performance: June 9, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 9 - June 15, 2023

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

By utilizing various mediums including video and installations, Heige explores environmental issues and hidden labor in our daily life. The opening will include performance & poetry by MFA candidate jun!yi Min and alishya almeida at 7:30 p.m.

mika castañeda MFA Thesis Exhibition

Ooooooooh Wheeeeeee! To be a pig in a tree… [THE ONE THAT GREW EMOTIONS AND DIED]

Opening & Performance: June 9, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 9 - June 16, 2023

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Spanning dive bars, drag shows, trashcans, and AA meetings, the exhibition asks us to reflect on the ways we create and maintain our histories, problematizing many questions around the autonomous/collective observing/preserving of love and community.

MFA candidate jun!yi Min performance Quieting Down with mika castañeda

June 9, 6:00 p.m.

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Under the ambience of mika casteñada’s sculpture installation, time is taken, it is not spent; time is passing, we don’t question her girlhood. Follow two dolls (Alejandrina Medina and jun!yi Min) as they explore the work of quieting down while taking time to get ready.

Professor Monique van Genderen Paintings

Reception: June 10, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 3 - July 15, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Her painterly language may be understood through her search to humanize abstraction, in which intersections of landscapes and organic forms convey memories and evolve over time.

San Diego Union Tribune Article

Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts Senior Exhibition Sandwich

Reception: June 13, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 13 - June 15, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This show features works including electronic installations, virtual reality, animations, video games, coding art, projection mapping, performances, and much more. Come join us in celebrating the diverse body of work that the ICAM program has produced this year!

Professor Amy Alexander in Gaze in the Age of Technology

June 15 - June 18, 2023


Museum 54, New York NY

With painting, photography, video, installation, and virtual reality, Gaze showcases a series of artworks that delve into the imagery and sensorial experience of being the "gazer" and the "gazed," as well as the tension surrounding the production and analysis of these visual encounters.

MFA alum Alexandra Neuman in Exploring the Earth as a Lover

June 14, 16-18, 2023

Performance Space, New York NY

A four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play. Alexandra Neuman will be giving tarot readings on June 14th, and have a video installation The Collective Womb in the symposium.

MFA Heige Kim awarded Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant


Open Study/Research Awards provide the opportunity for academically mature students to complete independent research projects in Korea through 10 months of grant support. With its strong focus on growth and development, and its emphasis on maintaining tradition and history, South Korea is an excellent place to study and to research topics spanning a multitude of fields and issues.

FIELD #24 presented by founder & editor Professor Grant Kester


This issue has been guest edited by FIELD editorial collective members Primrose Paul and Laura Thompson. Black Lives Matter, and the broader cycle of protests catalyzed by the ongoing police killings of black Americans, inspired a range of new forms of cultural and artistic production/intervention over the past decade that span performance, site specific interventions, music, and dance, as well as more conventional gallery-based practices.

MFA candidate Amir Saadiq awarded Skowhegan Residency


Skowhegan seeks each year to bring together a diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to artmaking and inquiry, creating the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth. Skowhegan draws its vitality from the community created through the talent and energy of the participants, and the distinguished Faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists who provide them with support and critical assistance.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca Artist Occupancy

Backfence Society, Vista CA

Sourcing original photographs from the Oceanside Historical Society's archives and incorporating materials from dismantled antique homes Marisa will continue to investigate the origins of cycles of disappearance and remnant from a new angle - anchored in the city she loves.

Biosphere Dreaming

CLOSING SOON!

April 27 - June 9, 2023

Gallery QI, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

“Biosphere Dreaming” is an audio-visual installation based on the “Dream Diary” of Mark Nelson, one of eight people who lived inside Biosphere 2, a closed-ecosystem complex located outside the little town of Oracle in Southern Arizona, from September 26, 1991 to September 26, 1993.

MFA alum Carolina Montejo in By Degrees: ​Art and our Changing Ecology

CLOSING SOON!

April 15 - June 10, 2023

Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach CA

​The Huntington Beach Art Center presents By Degrees: Art and our Changing Ecology, an exhibition addressing critical environmental themes. In response to global warming, artists are reflecting, creating, and examining the climate crisis. Through the artist's lens, By Degrees raises awareness of the severity and scale of ecological change.

UG alum Kim Garcia Smoking in the Garden

CLOSING SOON!

May 13 - June 10, 2023

Phase Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Smoking in the Garden explores folklore from stories passed down through Kim’s mother, investigating how an oral narrative can transform trauma into power. These works express how her body and lived experiences digest intimacy while employing memory, in all of its slipperiness, to explore interpersonal power dynamics.

MFA candidate Cat Gunn, MFA alumni Lyndsay Bloom, Jessica Buie, Morgan Mandalay in Thick Pile

CLOSING SOON!

May 13 - June 17, 2023

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Thick Pile consists of work in painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and video. The exhibition was not conceptualized around any distinct theme or topic, but rather assembled at the instinctive whim of its curator, MFA alum Joe Yorty.

UG alum Keywan Tafteh in No Plateaus

CLOSING SOON!

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Reisig & Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition positions Tafteh’s surface-shifting paintings alongside variously scaled sculptural works by Daniela Soberman. Between the artists, de/constructivist edges, expressive hollows, and gestural events permeate the builderly methods and interstitial materials (plywood, polystyrene, plaster) deployed across the bodies of work.

Faculty exhibition ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA

CLOSING SOON!

March 4 - June 17, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The exhibition highlights recent projects by faculty artists within the context of the defining forces of our moment, such as continued struggles for equity and social justice, accelerating climate change, threats to democracy, and rapid technological developments.

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