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.
Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian born, New
York City-based multidisciplinary visual artist. Her work
explores cultural identity, labor, body, history and the
self in installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, fiber,
video, and performance.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Sky Hopinka, who was born and raised in
Ferndale, Washington, is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga
Band of Luiseño Indians. His video, photo, and text work centers
around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape,
designs of language as containers of culture expressed through
personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms of media.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist,
writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her prolific
filmmaking and writing occupies a position between the fields of
art, philosophy and politics.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Josiah McElheny is an expert glassblower whose
installations, sculpture, paintings and films engage with the
history of his medium and the history of ideas, with a particular
interested in the fields of literature, architecture, music
theory, and astronomy.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
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
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.
