Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance

October 9 - December 11 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

Revolution Everywhere features three large-scale film & photographic installations by Panos Aprahamian, Heather M. O’Brien, and Simon Liu, whose works have been shaped by the recent revolutions in Lebanon and Hong Kong. Since all regional revolutions ...
The Messiah Triangle

October 9 - December 11 University Art Gallery

Michael Moshe Dahan (M.F.A. '14) is an Israeli-American artist who currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His art is focused on conceptual photography, visual arts and films. This exhibition features new works. Continuing our Critical Aesthetic ...
Life Worth Living

April 1 to December 12 Online

This series, comprised of twelve chapters documenting contemporary projects produced for 2021, imagines the curative power that aesthetic and discursive pharmakons might have in our global crisis. Curated by Juli Carson in collaboration with the ...
Malka Germania

January 8 - March 19 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

Yael Bartana's three channel video and sound installation; check back for updates

UCI Art Professor Hosts International Symposium Focused on Industrial Crafts Research

The Industrial Crafts Research Network (ICRN), co-directed by Department of Art Professor Simon Penny and Professor Tom Fisher (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom), will host the inaugural symposium, Exhibiting Skill: Understanding, Documenting, and Communicating Skilled Practices of Histor

Student

Take it From the Class of 2022: You Got This

By Lauren Knight, B.A. ’21 There are four classes of students heading back to Claire Trevor School of the Arts this fall, but only one class has spent a full year on campus. It’s crazy to think that half of our CTSA community has never stepped foot on campus before Welcome Week! We know that it’s d

Faculty

Meet Antoinette LaFarge: Co-Founder of UCI’s Electronic Art & Design Program

In celebration of Antoinette LaFarge's new book, Sting in the Tale, Irvine Community News & Views wrote a feature about her and the many contributions she has made to UCI's Department of Art. Read more about LaFage here. Attend LaFarge's upcoming talk through UCI Illuminations on Tuesday, Oct. 5

Department Programs

Programs

The Department of Art offers degrees in Art, with minors in Digital Arts, and Digital Filmmaking. It also offers an Honors in Art program, which is designed to further develop students’ critical, analytical, and technical skills, and is suited to those pursuing graduate school and/or exhibition careers. Honor students will be given access to a studio space for the academic year.