Throughout the academic year, undergraduate students organize
student-run exhibitions at the Basement Gallery. Graduating
MFA students present their work in the Arts & Humanities Graduate
Exhibition, hosted annually by the Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and held at the end of spring
quarter. The Arts & Humanities Graduate Exhibition is a
long-running and storied tradition at UC Davis that showcases the
work and research of graduate students across numerous
disciplines, including art history, art studio, design and
music.
Kota Ezawa is a media artist known for
creating computer animations that explore the mediation of
cultural and historical events. His work has been featured
in solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2021 and the
Baltimore Museum of Art. Ezawa has received a number of
fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies, including the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003; a SECA Art Award from
SFMOMA in 2006 and a Eureka Fellowship in 2010.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Maria Maea is a multidisciplinary artist working
in sculpture, installation, performance, film and sound. Through
her art practice, she deepens her connection to land, somatic
memory, and ancestry. Her works investigate and celebrate her
experience growing up in Southern California in her family’s
Samoan Mexican American community.
Tania Candiani is an interdisciplinary visual
artist whose work explores the intersection of art, literature,
music, architecture, science, and labor. Her production methods
emphasizes ancestral knowledge and its techniques and
technologies. One of the central interests of her work is an
expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field
through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
The Art Building is located on Hutchison Drive, about halfway
between the Memorial Union and Mrak Hall on the UC Davis campus.
There is limited parking behind the building, but there is
visitor parking nearby, across the Arboretum in lot VP5.