January 24, 7:30 p.m.

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA

In this cosmic opera by artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, a starship crew seeks refuge on the hostile planet 85K: Aurora. As the planet defends itself from the crew’s invasive presence, the humans evolve to become a part of a queerly multi-species organism that covers the entire world.

January 23 - January 25, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This exhibition is a personal telling of struggles as an autistic college student. The main inspiration for this work is to challenge the kinds of representations of autism we see on campus, and to introduce a completely new way for people to start becoming exposed to autism in a first hand way.

Reception: January 25, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

January 25 - March 20, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Drawing upon the collaborative nature of knowledge building, the collective nature of intelligence, and the permeable boundaries between individuals, the show employs cephalopods and cephalopod cognition as a means of reflecting upon the “increasingly powerful and pervasive synthetic alien intelligences of artificial intelligence (AI).” The opening reception will be hosted by Professors Amy Alexander and Jordan Crandall.

Reception: January 26, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Andaz West Hollywood, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition creates environments to celebrate and highlight artist communities of color around the world. The event will be kicking off the organization’s international celebration of Black History Month.

Reception: January 26, 6:30 - 11:00 p.m.

January 27 - May 5, 2024

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK

The exhibition will be the first institutional presentation of Sepuya’s work in the UK, bringing together more than 40 works across almost 400 square metres of gallery space. Sepuya is best known for his intimate studio portraits that explore the relationships between camera, subject and viewer. Sepuya will give an artist lecture on January 27 at 3:00 p.m.

January 29, 7:00 - 8:20 p.m.

Peterson Hall, UC San Diego

Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer whose work mingles drawing, text, and performance. Her talks, installations, and performances exploring art, science, and technology have been presented at venues ranging from the Mills Museum in California to the Tate Britain and the University of Manizales, Colombia. 

Reception: February 1, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. 

Jan. 29 - Feb. 4 by appointment: m1butler@ucsd.edu

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Maddie Butler presents a series of collages composed entirely of photographs excavated from her high school social media accounts. Returning to these images 15 years after they were taken, Butler’s interventions transform the snapshots into uneasy landscapes of nostalgia, desire and suburban girlhood.

Reception: February 1, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 30 - February 1, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This exhibition aims to create an immersive experience for visitors, inviting them to reflect on the transformative power of love and the resilience and elegance embodied by nature. The exhibition will celebrate the intricate relationships between these concepts and inspire viewers to delve deeper into their own journeys of growth and self-discovery.

February 1 - April 30, 2024

(re)FOCUS 2024, Philadelphia PA

The Artfront Partnership, a public art project under the aegis of Philadelphia Sculptors, has commissioned artists with a feminist perspective to transform vacant, dark storefronts into illuminated art spaces. Virginia Maksymowicz’s window considers the resilience and strength of the female figure in architecture by using the imagery of caryatids, who appear effortless in their supportive roles.

February 2, 9:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Getty Center, Los Angeles CA

The Getty Research Institute hosts the sixth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Joe Riley will present "Ocean Art History and Critical Ecological Practice: Visualizing Algae as a Passenger of Change," introduced by Professor John Welchman.

February 3, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Join Music M.A. alumnus Jonathan Sacks for a discussion of his distinguished career as a composer and orchestrator. Learn about what music brings to movies as Jonathan discusses his work in Toy Story 3, Mr. Holland's Opus, and other film favorites.

February 3 - May 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.

February 9, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla

Known for his dense multimedia compositions that reference both art history and mythology, Hundley’s work weaves together scenes from the past with familiar imagery taken from the contemporary world. Working in a variety of media Hundley fuses painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, photography, and performance into rich, multifaceted tableaux.

January 13 - March 23, 2024

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles CA

Honor Fraser Gallery presents "SMALL V01CE," curated by Jesse Damiani, exploring the intersection of human instinct, intuition, and artificial intelligence in creative processes. The exhibit examines how generative AI impacts human faculties like instinct and intuition, questioning whether these elements are essential for creativity and art. It invites leading artists to engage with these themes, offering a space for unconventional perspectives on how evolving technologies interact with innate human characteristics and the broader implications for the future of creativity and intelligence.

January 20 - February 25, 2024

Two Rooms, La Jolla CA

Two Rooms is an artist-run gallery and project space, founded in 2023 by Lizzie Zelter. Adjacent to her studio in San Diego, CA, Two Rooms was born out of a desire for informal and experimental artistic exploration and community in the San Diego/Tijuana bi-national region.

January 6 - January 27, 2024

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA

The exhibition Moved\Displaced features work addressing the themes of migration and displacement from a wide variety of perspectives. The show includes 28 artists working in an array of artistic mediums and methods. These artists are predominately based in Southern California and create their work with influences from a divers set of backgrounds.

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

August 27, 2023–January 28, 2024

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl Germany

Artists from 19 countries address the urgent questions of the 21st century in interactive video works, virtual and augmented reality experiences, multimedia installations and digital image worlds, with a view to the impact of globalisation, digitalisation and the climate crisis.

September 28, 2023 - January 28, 2024

The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX

This Land is a group exhibition about landscape: how it records the social and environmental effects of colonialism and capitalism. With Greater Austin ranking among the fastest growing and most expensive metropolitan areas in the U.S., This Land offers a space to reflect upon these transformations and broader histories of place, migration, and extraction.

October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Geisel Library, UC San Diego

This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.

January 22 - January 31, 2024

CSULB Galleries, Long Beach CA

The 19th Annual Greater Los Angeles Juried MFA Exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday 1/20 from 4-7pm and run 1/22- 1/31 m-f noon- 5pm. Free and open to the public.

December 8, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Webber Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Taking in mind the cities vast cultural field, Staring Into The Sun examines the intergenerational view points of the photographers. Each photographer with their own singular perspective that is in some way shaped by the nuances of the city and its ever-evolving narratives.

January 11 - February 3, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Spanning photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the works in the exhibition reimagine communal archives and ancestral histories, contest colonial narratives of progress and discovery, and portray the body as defiantly present, undergoing constant movement and transformation.