We, the faculty, stand with our community of students,
faculty, staff, researchers and colleagues to uphold our
commitment to listen, learn and to take action against social
injustice. We pledge to act in solidarity with those
who seek to end racism and achieve equity and justice for
all.
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In “Stacked
Artifacts,” Professor Darrin Martin presents an exhibition of
remixed archival video and sculptural works
which explore the dynamics of media and memory with
particular attention to queer histories. Reflecting on the
past in light of the present, Martin grapples with loss and
change, and the struggle to situate these histories in the
broader assemblage of reality.
“Stacked Artifacts” is on view at Telematic in San Francisco
from Dec. 6, 2025 – Jan. 24, 2026
Sandra Riddell Shannonhouse — an artist and University of
California, Davis, alum whose generous contributions and
advocacy for public art and historic preservation helped shape
vibrant art communities — has died.
In her new solo show “4
Meters,” Professor Beatriz Cortez explores
how everything is in a process of transformation: flowing,
moving, changing, and falling apart.
Felipe Baeza (b. 1987, Mexico) received a BFA from The Cooper
Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2009) and an MFA
from Yale University (2018). He has presented solo exhibitions in
Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and New York. His work was
included in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art
Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2022);
Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans, LA (2021);
and Desert X, Palm Springs, CA (2021), among other group
exhibitions across Europe, South America, and Asia.
The fall quarter Open Studios is coming! On Thursday, Nov. 20,
from 4:30-6:30 p.m., our graduate students will open their
studios to the public. Come and see new work and meet the local
art community!
Featured students include first-year MFA students Sierra Faust,
Thais Glazman, Gemma Dapilla, Erica Rawson, Julio Rodriguez and
Lulu Smith, and second-year candidates Nick Block, Tara Daly,
Levi Keatts, Davion Macks, Sean Olmstead and Marjorie Williams.
Please join us for the Fall 2025 UC Davis Art Studio Graduate
Symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 2.
Daisy Nam, director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of
Contemporary Art in SF, will give the keynote address at 4 pm.
Following her talk, will be graduate student presentations. We
will conclude with a reception at 8 pm in the Maria Manetti Shrem
Graduate Building.
Please join us for the fall quarter Art Walk, an exhibition
featuring art studio undergraduate art.
Art students will display their work throughout the Maria
Manetti Shrem Art Hall and TB-9 on Friday, December 5 from 12-3
pm. Refreshments will be available.
Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, and
photographer. He was the photography critic of the New York Times
Magazine from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal
Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and a
contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. His
photography and writing have received numerous awards. His most
recent novel, Tremor (2023), was named a book of the
year by Time, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among
others.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist
born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the
span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on
national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed,
or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis
Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New
York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer
mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project
(NACAP).
Andrew
Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture from 1945
onwards, art and ecology, art and ethics. Edinburgh
College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Alan C.
Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History,
Environmental Humanities and American Studies. William and Mary
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.
