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May 4 - May 10, 2024
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Chanell Stone writes, “Driven by a profound yearning to trace, locate and connect with my ancestral origins and beginnings, I devoted myself to making in the Deep South – in what felt like a familiar first and soon became a multi-year dance between returning while arriving. I share with you all my leavings, encounters and exchanges with this land.”
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May 10, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
The Soap Factory, San Diego CA
The documentary offers a glimpse into fascinating narratives that are preserved through art in Logan Heights. This is a collaboration with UCSD Urban Studies and the Logan Heights community. Speculative Design student Leana Wong was a part of the arts team.
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May 11, 7:00 p.m.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Curated by Jon Davies, the Transmission Shorts Program examines experimental film/video works from the past decade that reimagine the possibility of communication, exchange, and intimacy across generational lines. Together this collection of shorts exhibit what scholar Carolyn Dinshaw calls a “queer desire for history,” using moving images to viscerally touch across time and its ruptures.
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May 13, 6:00 - 7:20 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Working in the traditions of critical craft and process art, he engages collaboratively in site-based projects focused on technical practice in coastal, island, and ocean communities negotiating precarity and resilience through intercultural design. Co-sponsored by Getty Foundation PST ART “Art + Science Collide.”
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May 16, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Jeannie, Sixth College, UC San Diego
Boots Riley is a director, activist, screenwriter, producer, poet, rapper, and speaker. His directorial debut "Sorry to Bother You" premiered to strong critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. His seven-part series "I’m A Virgo" released in summer 2023 to critical acclaim. Boots Riley is also is the founding member and lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club featuring Tom Morello on guitar.
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Ceremony: May 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition: May 16 - May 23, 2023
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
The Kamil family, Department of Visual Arts, and School of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego invite you to the 14th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards Ceremony. Please join us for an evening of film and creativity to honor the memory of Adam Kamil and showcase the talent of the undergraduate students.
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May 17, 6:30 p.m.
The Loft, UC San Diego
To kick off The Otherwise Film Festival, (a.k.a.) Memo Navajas will present a premiere screening of the short film "Aliendigenismo" along with a performance from Rancho Shampoo & The Indian Dub Orchestra.
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Reception: May 18, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 17 - May 24, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
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Reception: May 18, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Performance: May 24, 7:15 p.m.
May 18 - May 24 by appointment
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
JAX culminating thesis exhibition, Carpal Tunnel Crick Cracks in the Tendons of My Flexors: These Hands Will Never Be the Same, is an overflow of hair based installation work and a dedication to swept under the rug grief throughout her familial past, specifically in relation to her lineage of Mothers.
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Reception: May 18, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May 18 - July 20, 2024
LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Garnett's new film Songbook is included in this year's COLA Independent Master Artist Project exhibition. Songbook was developed with the support of The City of Los Angeles, The Industry LAB (2022). Thematic iterations have shown in 2022 at CAMH and 2021 at Commonwealth + Council.
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May 19, 2:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Los Angeles CA
Contemporary artists featured in Nineteenth-Century Photography Now take an inquisitive approach to the inventiveness and conventions of photography’s early years. In this conversation moderated by Getty curator Carolyn Peter, artists Laura Larson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Wendy Red Star talk about their artistic practices and how they are engaging with and critiquing photography from the 19th century.
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May 21, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Kameelah Janan Rasheed holds an MA in Secondary Social Studies Education from Stanford University (2008) and a BA in Public Policy from Pomona College (2006). She was an Amy Biehl U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006–7). A learner, she grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation.
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May 22, 6:30 p.m. Berlin / 9:30 a.m. PDT
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany
The panel discussion will focus on the question to what extent artistic ecologies and nature(s), being anticipated in contemporary art, turn away from the seemingly dystopian narrative of the Anthropocene, which places humanity at the center, in favor of positive, hopeful, but also playful narratives through eco-fictional strategies.
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Money on the Left
Here, we focus on Kester’s two recent books published by Duke University Press. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester demonstrates how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation.
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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.
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May 6 - May 10, 2024
Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
In a world brimming with polarization, inequity and complexity, understanding and shaping our future is more crucial than ever. Artists and cultural practitioners are crucial in pushing the boundaries of how we understand ourselves and the world around us. They help us to move beyond the familiar, transcend borders between the present and the future, and encourage exploration into realms that seem improbable.
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May 2 - August 23, 2024
Thomas Center, Gainesville FL
SOFT features the fabric, fiber and filament work of 40 artists from the Gainesville arts community and beyond. This exhibition is all about materiality, intentionality, and tactility.
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ICA San Diego Podcast
In this episode, ICA San Diego Curator, Jordan Karney Chaim, PhD, chats with artist and UC San Diego professor, Dr. Pinar Yoldas about her first solo U.S. exhibition and more. Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, Yoldas has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture.
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HereIn Journal
The kitsch object, often with the aid of humor, serves as an entry point into Yorty’s works. It is through this trope of consumerist longing that Yorty’s collections expose the gimmick of the “collector’s item,” which is that it exploits and “leans-in” to this generalized, cultural and socio-economic desire to possess, which is at its root, a desire to be or a desire for something other.
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April 6 - May 11, 2024
Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA
These new oil paintings resonate with Chapin’s surreal style of patterning and further develop her interest in modes of figuration. Through the poses of her sitters, each fully concealed by checked and striped fabrics, she navigates collective human sentiments in life-sized scale and manufactures a limbo in which they all reside.
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March 8 - May 11 2024
Gazelli Art House, London UK
A solo exhibition exploring transitional work from 1966-1974 by represented artist Harold Cohen, coinciding with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view until 19 May 2024.
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March 2 - May 18, 2024
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA
Home is universal and home is deeply personal; family can be anyone, and family is specifically someone. The exhibition Reencuentros: Seeing You Again presents eight contemporary photographers whose works delve into the ubiquitous and intimate nature of family and home.
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March 7 - May 19, 2024
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
With this project, Barnette honors Black queer joy and her own family history by reanimating her father’s bar and its legacy as a space of community connection and engagement.
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February 3 - May 19, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
As artificial intelligence tools for image creation enter the mainstream with text-to-image software such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, Harold Cohen: AARON examines the historical foundations of AI artmaking and provides a deep exploration of creativity, authorship, and collaboration in the context of AI.
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March 2 - May 25, 2024
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.
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