Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Complexity in Focus

August 30

Getty and the Beall Center for Art + Technology highlight the complexity of our modern challenges
KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min

October 5 - December 14 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

This exhibition features the last artworks of UC Irvine Professor Emerita Yong Soon Min before her untimely passing on March 12, 2024. It includes Still/Incessant, an artist book that revisits her longstanding interest in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) ...
Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action

October 5 - December 14 Room Gallery

ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, is a diverse, nonpartisan group united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis...
Tenth Thursday Undergraduate Student Exhibition - Fall 2024

December 5 - December 5 Arts Campus

Join us for Tenth Thursday, an evening showcasing art exhibitions and projects by the Department of Art's talented undergraduates. Experience a diverse range of works, including painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, video, sculpture, performance...
The Intimacies Between Continents

January 25 - April 5 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

Check back often for more info on an upcoming exhibition curated by Coleman Collins, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art.
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition - Winter 2025

February 8 - March 1 Room Gallery

This exhibition of nine second-year M.F.A. students presents works for their advancement to candidacy at the Claire Trevor School of Arts at University of California, Irvine.
20th Annual Guest Juried Undergraduate Exhibition

March 13 - March 22 Room Gallery

The 20th Anniversary Juried Undergraduate Exhibition features works by over 30 students from the Department of Art, including painting, drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, and video. Join us at the opening reception for light refreshments.

Navigating Seaways

Simon Penny’s Orthogonal featured in Embodied Pacific exhibit at UC San Diego Simon Penny, professor of art at UC Irvine, will present his project Orthogonal in the Embodied Pacific exhibition from September 27 through December 6, 2024, at UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Gallery at Structural & Mater

Press Room

Room Gallery Presents “Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action”

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition explores the grassroots advocacy group that confronted the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York Irvine, Calif., September 16, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine’s Room Gallery announces the opening of Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action, curated by

Alumni

Curating Connections

Virginia Arce, M.F.A. ’17, a OC Arts Awards 2024 Emerging Arts Leader, shares her curatorial philosophy at the Irvine Fine Arts Center: A Q&A session UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) alumna Virginia Arce, M.F.A. ’17, will be honored as an Emerging Arts Leader at the 24th O

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.

The Future Is Present