UCLA Department of Art

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY 🌞 Applications for the Summer Art Institute close June 15th. Spend your summer making ambitious work, learning from working artists, and building a creative community with other young artists from around the world 🌎 Develop, print, and experiment in the darkroom 📸 PAINT G DRAW in Big studios, with Big light and Big views of Los Angeles 🎨 Come make a ridiculous amount of work with us 🤪 Apply by June 15th!!!

Yummy Bowl is almost here!!! 🍲✨ Join us next Thursday, May 21st, for our much-anticipated annual Yummy Bowl Benefit — a campus-wide collaboration uniting students, faculty, and staff to help combat food insecurity at UCLA. By purchasing a handmade ceramic bowl, you directly support the UCLA Community Programs Office (CPO) Food Closet and help ensure every Bruin has access to essential resources and nourishment. Now in its fifth year, the event celebrates the power of art as a tool for social change — bringing together community and care through the beauty of ceramics. Each bowl is a one-of-a-kind piece made by student artists in the UCLA Department of Art Ceramics Lab. If preorder bowls sell out online, there will still be bowls available for purchase on the day of the event. Donation + preorder link in bio!

☀️🎨 UCLA Summer Sessions are here! 🎨☀️ Spend your summer deep in the studio with Advanced Drawing and Advanced Painting at University of California, Los Angeles this Summer 2026. Students enrolled in both courses will receive a UCLA studio space for the full 12 weeks ✨ PLUS the opportunity to exhibit work in the New Wight Gallery at the end of the summer. Art 130 Advanced Drawing June 22-July 31. Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1A. Drawing as both independent expressive medium and as means of visualization. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading. Art 133 Advanced Painting August 3-September 11 Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied media and subjects to further develop students’ technical and expressive means to implement their ideas. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading. More information available through the link in our bio 😎

This Friday 5/1, please join us in welcoming Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork! This will be the final talk in our year long series, so don’t miss it! The talk will begin at 7pm and will take place in Lanier gallery at the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Studios in Culver City. Food and drinks will be served before the talk at 6pm. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s interdisciplinary practice spans sound installation, sculpture, and performance, reconfiguring relationships between audience, performer, and architecture. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. Solo exhibitions include Carpenter Center, Harvard (2024); ICA, Los Angeles (2023); François Ghebaly, New York (2022); and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2021, 2017). Group exhibitions include Taipei Biennial, Taipei (2023); Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2020); and SculptureCenter, New York (2019). Gork has received the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2023), LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab Grant (2021), and a VIA Art Production Grant (2020). Her performances often involve collaborations with Laetitia Sonami and the collective 0th.

Can art reimagine the world? At UCLA, we believe it can and that it does. The UCLA Department of Art has been at the forefront of arts education since 1939, cultivating generations of artists who don’t just participate in the cultural landscape but actively shape it. Led by a faculty of renowned working artists, the department fosters bold, interdisciplinary work that engages the complexities of contemporary life. Students emerge with not only technical mastery but the personal vision and critical insight to push the boundaries of what art can be and do in the world. The Department of Art helped establish Los Angeles as a global center for contemporary art. That legacy is renewed every year by the students and faculty who choose to do their most serious work here. #BruinGivingDay #UCLAArts #UCLA

Meridian closes today! The New Wight Gallery is open until 5:00, and I’ll be there for anyone who wants a personal walkthrough. Thank you all for coming, for the conversations, and for the support. See you at Open Studios on May 30th 😜

Last but not least—THESIS NUMBER 4 ✨ The last of our four thesis exhibitions opens one week from today—Thursday, April 30th! With the reception happening from 5-8pm. Please join us in celebrating @_aryana__________ @annevetter @spaghetti__warehouse @feli.x.li You know the drill ♥️ Gallery Hours Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 4:30PM Saturday, 10AM - 5PM New Wight Gallery Broad Art Center, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90065

This Friday, April 17, we’re excited to welcome Jovanna Venegas to our visiting lecturer series! Please join us at 7pm for a public lecture at the UCLA Graduate Art Studios, 3600 Hayden Ave, Culver City, CA 90232 Jovanna Venegas began her role as Curator of SculptureCenter, New York in January 2024. Her recent exhibitions include to ignite our skin with new commissions by Patricia Ayres, Elaine Cameron-Weir, and Erik Tlaseca, among others; Luana Vitra: Amulets;ASMA: Ideal Space for Music; and Open Process: Alexa West. From 2017 to 2023, Venegas worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, concluding her tenure as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. While at SFMOMA, she curated commissioned projects with Fernando Palma Rodríguez (2023) and Liz Hernández (2021) and co-organized Wu Tsang Presents: Moved by the Motion (2021); Shifting the Silence (2022); the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales (2023-2024). AAdditionally, she served as a curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022, with a focus on the U.S./Mexico border region. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Somewhere between beginning and end—THESIS NUMBER 3 ✨ The third of our four thesis exhibitions opens next week Thursday, April 16th! With the reception happening from 5-8pm. Please join us in celebrating @dirtproject_ @keegan_holden @bydanenakama @a.sungtaek You know the drill ♥️ Gallery Hours Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 4:30PM Weekends, 10AM - 5PM New Wight Gallery Broad Art Center, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90065 Flier design by @eyetaw

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What better way to kick off the start of spring quarter than with THESIS NUMBER 2✨♥️ The second of our four thesis exhibitions opens this Thursday April 2nd, at the New Wight Gallery 5-8pm. Please join us in celebrating @backstoryache @markelecullins @ashleymichellehannah @jazzygirl______ This is the moment ✨ Gallery Hours Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 4:30PM Saturday, 10AM - 5PM New Wight Gallery Broad Art Center, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90065

Please join us this Friday, March 27th at 7PM, for an artist talk and lecture with Sky Hopinka! The lecture will take place in the Lainer Gallery at Margo Leavin Graduate Studios and is free and open to the public ⭐️ Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and Palm Springs, California. In Portland, Oregon he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media. His films, videos, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, The Whitney Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center amongst others. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial, the 2021 edition of Prospect.5, and the 14th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea and the Göteborg International Biennial in Switzerland in 2023. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019, a recipient of a 2020 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography, is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was a winner of the 2023 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.