In Measurements of Progress, the graduating students of the 2021 Masters of Fine Arts cohort from the University of California, San Diego, delve into the incremental steps of human progress from a historical, contemporary, and speculative vision.
Climate change, global health, and sustainability are some of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century, especially for future generations. Sixteen local artists produced work after teaming up with scientists and technologists from seven major research institutions: La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Qualcomm Institute/Calit2, Salk Institute, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Scripps Research, and UC San Diego.
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Featuring African-American and Latinx artists within the LGBTQ community portraying queer cultural awaking, the current political moment, and considerable storytelling skill.
An SDAI Pop-Up Exhibit that explores how climate differences between Sweden and Southern California impact artists’ perception of indoor and outdoor spaces.
Friday, June 21, 2019 through Sunday, July 7, 2019 at SDAI; Saturday, June 8, 2019 through Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at the Athenaeum Arts Center, Logan Heights.
Featuring art by students from throughout San Diego County, the 2019 Youth Alliance exhibit is a partnership with the California Art Education Association, San Diego Chapter; Words Alive; and Vista Hill.
Joe Cantrell wraps up his three-month stint at SDAI with a weeklong show culminating his arts residency.
Artist Joe Cantrell says human bodies receive and filter digitized data – and we are silently affected by it. He’s working on making the process more audible, visible, and apparent.
Every Friday, from April 12 to May 10, Joe is holding an Open Studio at SDAI, from 11 am to 4 pm, and he needs visitors to give him a hand in making the unseen evident. It’s interactive, fun, and a perfect family event. As a special incentive, there’s free admission for any visitor who comes in and says, “I’m here to work with Joe.”
Winter Artist-in-Residence Chantal Wnuk presents painting and sculpture created during her 3-month residency at the San Diego Art Institute.
That We Should Be Heirs encourages participants to engage in the lost art of letter writing as a method of alleviating burdens and promoting healing. By putting hand to paper and joining one another in this collective activity of personal letter writing, we can share in this intimate process of privately documenting the stories, hardships, and triumphs that connect us all.
Curated by Carlos Castro Arias & Sarah Trujillo-Porter Deviate / Landscape revolves around contemporary approaches to artmaking that deal with the idea of landscape as a constructed and deconstructed space.
Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary installation artist/neo-cave painter engaged with American spectacle at the intersection of waste culture and the surveillance state. For this pop-up at SDAI, Bouscaren will present a multi-media interactive installation inspired by the ARTS Young Artists in Harmony program and the San Diego/Tijuana border.
This exhibition, curated by artists Stephanie and Ken Goldman, highlights the historic impact that model Pam Whidden had on San Diego’s art modeling community.
This exhibition is a culmination of Collective Voices’ third year of participatory photography programming as a collaboration between The AjA Project and The United Women of East Africa. This program aims to provide East African youth arts programming, provide outlets for creative self-expression, and offer an opportunity to ignite critical conversations around culture and social justice.
Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton, SDAI’s current Artist-in-Residence, presents the culmination of her 3-month residency in Balboa Park.
Rising Tide is curated by Sarah Trujillo-Porter and features solo work by 3 different artists including Jana Brike - Sea of Change, Francisco Eme - Parallel Planes and Jacob Sundstrom - Erasure.
Eleanor Antin, Wayne Martin Belger, Adam Belt, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Einar de la Torre, Jamex de la Torre, Stephen Douglas, Steve Eilenberg, Scott Froschauer, Dave Ghilarducci, Cole Goodwin, Ichiro Irie, Beliz Iristay, Paula Levine, Maria Munroe, Cheryl Nickel, Sean Noyce, Ruben Ochoa, Erika Rothenberg, and Kristine Schomaker.
Curated by Debby and Larry Kline.
SDAI presents immersive video work by Sam Falls and Joe Zorrilla in its main floor Project Space from August 28-December 31. Over the Moon is a contemplative piece focused on 11 minutes of the moon's journey through the vantage point of a viewer on the ground.
The exhibition features works on paper, sculpture, and video work created in SDAI’s 200 square foot studio during the months of June and July. The pieces created during the residency function as a continuation of D’Urso’s practice that investigates how certain bodies, such as the queer female body, move through the contemporary physical and emotional landscape.
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Michael James Armstrong, Jennifer Anne Bennett, Claudia Cano, Max Daily, Sarah Farnsworth, Victoria Fu, John Brinton Hogan, Audrey Hope, John Oliver Lewis, Carolina Montejo, Joshua Moreno, Eva Struble, Maya VanderSchuit, Allison Wiese...and more.
Come discover our annual free showcase of student artwork in a variety of mediums created at eight local non-profit organizations: Art Reach, Arts for Learning San Diego, CoTA, The Front Gallery, Casa Familiar, Outside Lens, SDAI, and Words Alive!
Within the current cultural climate, there is a desire among the creative community to use their artwork as a platform for their voices. The artists in our upcoming exhibition work in a variety of different media and subtle ways to address the topic of representation.
TENDREMENT, a pop-up exhibition, is an exploration of the aesthetic tension between past, present, and future. SDAI invites viewers to navigate a posthuman environment mired in traces of what once was, and what is to come- with artwork alluding to sentiments of intimacy, nostalgia, pain, and identity.
U.S./Mexico-based multimedia artist Roberto Romero-Molina takes us deep into the world of perception, peeling back layers of cultural expectation to reveal the wonder and mystery of everyday sounds and images. In collaboration with the exhibition is cutting edge Art + Music + Technology Event Series.
Sheena Rae Dowling takes an intimate look at addiction and alcoholism, a disease which has affected the lives of millions of people.
The exhibition 27 Horses is the result of a year of exploration into the questions raised by the 2016 horse racing season at the Del Mar Racetrack where an alarming number of horses died. Chris Travers, a photographer and museum professional for most of her life, and an animal-lover for all of her life, explores horse racing in her own backyard, through photography and graphic illustration.
A solo show featuring the work of seven San Diego artists
Armando De La Torre seeks to communicate through found objects, audio and video recordings, and harvested materials washed ashore in the bay. Through the process of developing the installation, De La Torre will be informed by the materials to express “Who Are We Anyways.”
Employing performative strategies to establish an association of spectacle inspired by traditional boxing matches, the internal struggle of artists living between two countries will be displayed through gesture and illustrative documentation translating the complexities of border politics.
As an attempt to develop a new way of representing the environment. Ana Andrade has abstracted the smallest fragment of the landscape, which were later developed by a microscope, making visible the most invisible particles of Playas de Tijuana.
