Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

The new two-person show“Neighbors” at Et. al. features textile wall works by Daniel Arthur Mendoza (B.A. ‘13) and ceramic, metal and foam sculptures by Daniel Alejandor Trejo (B.A., art history and art studio, ‘13). 

Familiar Strangers, a new group show featuring alum and lecturer Deirdre White (MFA, ‘93), opens this Saturday at Manna Gallery.

Alum Seongmin Yoo’s (MFA ‘ 24) newest exhibition show “Seongmin Yoo: Pulses of Experience” explores the intense physiological moment of attentive immobility, a reaction that premeditates a fight or flight response. Pulses of Experience functions as a metaphor for contemporary life.

FalseFront will exhibit a solo show of new paintings by alum Noah Greene (M.F.A. ‘18).

Alum Hong Chun Zhang (M.F.A., ‘2004) will present a new work in a group show inspired by the global spirit of Kansas City at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Alum Jessica Wimbley (MFA, ’05) is featured in the West Hollywood’s next Moving Image Art Media  (MIMA) series.

Work by alum Noah Green (M.F.A. ‘18) is featured in a group show at Portland’s Bardo Tea. The installation titled “Rest Haven” is presented in collaboration with Helen’s Costume Fine Art and brings together painting, drawing, collage, object-based work and sound that operate through ambiguity, staging and spatial relation. The exhibition opens Jan. 25 at 6 p.m.

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.