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Professor in group show at the LA Municipal Gallery

Professor Beatriz Cortez is participating in the group show Heavy Metal at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.

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Professor Cortez in “New Humans: Memories of the Future”

“New Humans: Memories of the Future” inaugurates the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans traces a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred ne

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Professor in show highlighting contemporary Latinx artists

The groundbreaking group show Aztlán: Tunel del Tiempo opened at the national galleries of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and features works by Professor Beatriz Cortez.

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Professor Cortez in show at Museo Anahuacalli

Professor Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza’s two-person exhibition La Rebelion de los Objetos (The Rebellion of the Objects) opened at Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico City on Feb. 3.

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Andre Keichian
The California Studio

Main Theatre, Wright Hall

Andre Keichian is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working across photography, video and sculptural installation. His work houses conversations around exile, trans identities, and diaspora and questions how these connections might speak to geopolitical and subjective understandings of migration. 

Main Theatre at Wright Hall, Davis, CA
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Mimi Plumb
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Cruess Hall, Room 1002

Mimi Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged photographers whose work explores the landscapes and communities of California and the American West. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing project, The Reservoir.

Cruess Hall, Davis, CA
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Dyani White Hawk
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Dyani White Hawk is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. Her practice, strongly rooted in painting and beadwork, extends into sculpture, installation, video, and performance, reflecting upon cross-cultural experiences through the amalgamation of influences from Lakota and Euro/American abstraction. A mid-career survey Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Remai Modern, will open at Remai Modern on April 25, 2026. 

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA

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