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We are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty memb We are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty member, Young Joon Kwak! Please join us on Thursday September 24th at 5pm in Room 1101 in the Interactive Learning Pavilion (ILP) to see Young Joon discuss their work as part of the Fall 2026 Artist Lecture Series. This lecture is free and open to the public. That is ILP 1101, not Embarcadero Hall! Young Joon Kwak (they/she) is a Los Angeles–based artist working across sculpture, performance, and collective action. Kwak’s work begins with touch, intimacy, and collaboration, asking how bodies and the relations between them can become materially and publicly present without being reduced to fixed images or identities. Through a process they call invert-casting, Kwak turns the negative impressions left by bodies—the pressure, folds, gaps, and traces of contact—into sculptures rather than replicas of the body itself. Glitter, mirrored glass, metal, resin, and iridescent surfaces make these traces shimmer, fragment, and shift with the viewer’s position, keeping recognition unstable. Kwak’s work has been included in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Made in L.A. 2023, and BAMPFA’s MATRIX program, with recent exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Esther Schipper, Seoul, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. They founded the collective Mutant Salon and perform in the electronic dance-noise diva band Xina Xurner. Their work is held in the collections of LACMA, BAMPFA, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, MSU Broad Art Museum, and other institutions. - Portrait Photo by Joe Pugliese. - Second slide: Young Joon Kwak, Divine Dance of Soft Revolt (Anna, Travis, Me), 2024. Installation view in Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 8–August 23, 2026. Photograph by Ron Amstutz.
Join graduating MFA artist Vivek Karthikeyan for a Join graduating MFA artist Vivek Karthikeyan for a guided walkthrough of his immersive expanded cinema installation at the MFA Thesis Exhibition “Faultlines” (May 23 - June 7). Followed by faculty responses and interdisciplinary conversation featuring faculty from across campus including Psychology & Brain Sciences, Religious Studies, Germanic & Slavic Studies, and Film and Media Studies. The event is supported by the Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB."
Dear Art Department Community, We are excited to a Dear Art Department Community, We are excited to announce the final speaker in our Spring Art 2026 Colloquium is artist Carmen Winant. @carmen.winant WHO: artist Carmen Winant. WHEN: Thursday, June 4th WHERE: ILP 2101 Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant’s projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo and the Museum of Modern Art (MSN) in Warsaw. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.
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