Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

Seongmin Yoo’s (M.F.A. ‘24) latest exhibition at the Dougherty Station Community Arts Center Gallery brings together new sculpture, paintings, and a performance that reflect her continued exploration of movement, transformation, and the relationship between place and identity.

Alum Kelly O’Leary (M.F.A. ‘22) has received a 2025 Art Bae Award. Kelley will use this award to complete her Mars ventifact project: turning uncanny rover photographs into aluminum prints as well as 3D-printed sculptures, bringing the full series to exhibition scale.

Alum Torreya Cummings’ (B.A., ‘99) new show “[Obstructed view of the house through the trees with the road visible on the left side in the foreground.] or black point reinterpretive site” is an immersive, site-responsive installation and replica of a 19th-century Victorian “period room” on view at the Berkeley Art Center.

Alum Luka Vergoz’s (M.F.A., ‘23) solo show ”Forming, here, again” opens Oct. 10 at the Third Space Art Collective in Davis. Organized by DART Magazine and curated by another UC Davis alum Yuchen Hou (B.A., art studio, ‘25), 

Alum Jessica Wimbley (MFA, art studio, ‘05) was among the 10 artists who contributed work to “Love, Leimert,” a love letter to Leimert Park in Los Angeles, which presented moving-image artworks in a diverse range of styles and subject matter.

Nicole Anderson (M.F.A. ‘25) has received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. This is Nicole’s third grant from the foundation which supports young artists working at the forefront of representational art.

Sofía del Pedregal (M.F.A. ‘22) has been awarded the Lighthouse Works Residency Fellowship. Sofia will be in residence from Aug. 26-Oct. 7 as part of Session 65.

Alum Caetlynn Booth (B.A., 02) has curated a new show at Project: ARTspace entitled Mindscape is a Pattern.

Jordan Benton (M.F.A. ‘23) and Whitney Vangrin (M.F.A. ‘22) will exhibit new works on June 28 at Confloptus. Jordan presents photographs from the project STACKS, depiction of prescribed burn piles, exploring the visual language of ecological intervention. Whitney shares new sculptures and video, featuring footage from the kelp restoration project at Bodega Bay Marine Lab and fermentation processes at The Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkeley.