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Making Communities: Art and the Border March 3 - April 13

Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko, Ph.D. ‘13

The University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego presents Making Communities: Art and the Border. This multimedia exhibition in the University Art Gallery and SME Visual Arts Gallery features twenty artists whose work critiques and reassesses the border and imagines a more interconnected and just world

Extensions of Photography October 7 – December 9 2016

Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko, Ph.D. ‘13

The University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego presents Extensions of Photography. This exhibition highlights artistic practices by former and current UC San Diego-affiliated artists and alumni who redefined the photographic medium and contributed significantly to the cultural life of San Diego and the United States

8 // MFA Graduate Exhibition 2015 June 4 – July 3 2015

The University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego presents 8 // MFA Graduate Exhibition 2015. This exhibition features artwork by eight graduating students from the Visual Arts MFA program at UC San Diego.

ROUND but SQUARE: Undergraduate Exhibition 2015 May 19 – May 22 2015

ROUND but SQUARE: Undergraduate Exhibition 2015 is hosted by the University Art Gallery from May 19--22, 2015. This exhibit serves to highlight the most ambitious works by emerging artists of UCSD’s undergraduate community. Curated by a panel of undergraduate art historians, this exhibition brings together works from the many departments here at UCSD: ICAM (Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major), Media, and Studio, onto one architectural plane to encourage a thought provoking and stimulating conversation between peers.

Artistic Research: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition 2015

The University Art Gallery's approaching 50th Anniversary provides an opportune time to look back on the gallery's achievements. In many ways, a faculty exhibition provides the best framework through which to do so. The gallery's exhibitions and programs have always emerged from the research interests of faculty in the Visual Arts Department, in concert with the students with whom they work and teach, and exhibitions of this work provide important touchstones in the consideration of its history.

Artistic Research: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition 2015 May 7 – May 14 2015

The University Art Gallery's approaching 50th Anniversary provides an opportune time to look back on the gallery's achievements. In many ways, a faculty exhibition provides the best framework through which to do so. The gallery's exhibitions and programs have always emerged from the research interests of faculty in the Visual Arts Department, in concert with the students with whom they work and teach, and exhibitions of this work provide important touchstones in the consideration of its history.

State Park March 7 – May 1 2015

A dynamic group of artists explore the concept of state parks as complex sites that exist, ostensibly, to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic relevance, and recreational potential.

3015: Work in Progress January 15 – January 30 2015

Marina Abramović in collaboration with Kim Stanley Robinson. The installation previewed a new work for the upcoming Venice Biennale. Sound recordings captured during the Abramović Method Workshop were featured.

Elective Affinities: MFA Graduate Exhibition 2014 May 29th – June 27th 2014

Curated by PhD students Paloma Checa-Gismo and Noni Brynjolson, the 2014 MFA exhibition proposed that while there are numerous practices among the group of graduating students, there are still lines of thematic affinities between the works that reveal a shared set of concerns and approaches to art making...

My Strangest Stranger March 13th – May 9th 2014

Artist Mary Walling Blackburn was invited by the gallery to continue her research into extraterrestrial encounters, seeking narratives produced to understand how we position ourselves in relationship to the Other, the alien, the stranger, the unknown...