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  • Ulysses Jenkins retrospective opens in Philadelphia on Sept. 17
    September 13
    Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation is the first major retrospective on the work of groundbreaking video/performance artist Ulysses Jenkins, on view at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) this fall, September 17–December 30, 2021.
  • 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 to December 12 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 ...
  • In conversation with UCI author Antoinette LaFarge
    October 5
    Please come hear professor of art Antoinette LaFarge talk about her latest book, “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation.” Professor LaFarge will be interviewed by Heather Jessup.
  • Emerging Brighter
    As UCI student artists emerge from an extended hiatus from campus, learn more about what they discovered and how they honed new skills in 2021.
  • Life Worth Living
    April 1 - December 11
    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 ...

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Emerging Brighter

UCI student artists discovered and honed new skills in 2021 By Christine Byrd When UCI moved operations online a year and a half ago, everyone gained new skills: creating an at-home studio, mastering Zoom meetings and troubleshooting technology. But as artists struggled to keep their creative spark
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Ulysses Jenkins retrospective opens in Philadelphia on Sept. 17

Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation is the first major retrospective on the work of groundbreaking video/performance artist Ulysses Jenkins, on view at ICA this fall, September 17–December 30, 2021. The exhibition is co-curated by Meg Onli, ICA Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator and Erin C
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Prof. Monica Majoli wins a prestigious Hammer Museum award

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times by Deborah Vankin July 15, 2021 "The Hammer Museum announced Thursday that L.A. artist Kandis Williams, co-founder of Cassandra Press and a visiting faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, will receive the museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award for artistic e
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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.

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Oct
05
In conversation with UCI author Antoinette LaFarge
October 5

Please come hear professor of art Antoinette LaFarge talk about her latest book, “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation.” Professor LaFarge will be interviewed by Heather Jessup.
Oct
09
The Messiah Triangle
October 9 to December 12
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....
Oct
09
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....
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