Art News

Beall Center for Art + Technology Presents ‘Engaging the Margins’

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition showcases the work where artmaking, practice-based research and scholarship intersect IRVINE, Calif., January 7, 2025 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to announce the opening of Engaging the...

UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium Features Three CTSA Professors

The event will showcase the creative activities of Newkirk Faculty Fellows that build on the center's mission for Science & Society Please RSVP to join the UC Irvine Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium, “Existential Crises and Imagining Futures,” on Friday, January 24, 2025, from...

In Memory of Lorraine O’Grady

Lorraine O’Grady (1934–2024) Lorraine O’Grady, pioneering conceptual artist, writer, critic and former UC Irvine faculty member, passed away on December 13 at 90. O’Grady’s transformative career spanned decades and mediums, exploring the intersections of race, gender and identity. Working...

Professor of Art Simon Leung Selected for “Artforum's” Best of 2024: Critics' Favorite Critics

Leung’s recognition highlights his continuing impact on contemporary Asian American art UC Irvine Professor of Art Simon Leung has been recognized in Artforum’s Best of 2024: Critics’ Favorite Critics section, a new feature spotlighting the year’s most compelling contributions to criticism. Art...

UC Irvine faculty and Alumnus Awarded ARTnews 2024 Award for Best Thematic Museum Show

Scratching at the Moon exhibition is the first focused survey of Asian American artists in a major Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) exhibition Scratching at the Moon has been awarded the ARTnews Award for Best Thematic Museum Show of...

Art as Lover

Professor of Art Monica Majoli presents two exhibits around intimacy and the aids crisis in Düsseldorf  Monica Majoli, painting professor in the Department of Art at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, presents two new exhibitions in Düsseldorf: Distant Lover (2009–2024) and With...

Welcoming New Faculty at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Three new UC Irvine faculty members join the Departments of Art, Drama and Dance The Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) welcomes three new faculty members this fall: Na Mira (Department of Art), Yee Eun Nam (Department of Drama) and E. Macias (Department of Dance). Each faculty member’...

A Celebration of Teaching

Deborah Oliver named one of the 2024 UC Irvine Dean's Honorees The UCI Celebration of Teaching honors faculty, instructors and teaching assistants who demonstrate excellence in undergraduate teaching at UC Irvine. Nominated by peers, students and staff, award recipients are recognized across six...

Navigating Seaways

Simon Penny’s Orthogonal featured in Embodied Pacific exhibit at UC San Diego Simon Penny, professor of art at UC Irvine, will present his project Orthogonal in the Embodied Pacific exhibition from September 27 through December 6, 2024, at UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Gallery at...

Room Gallery Presents “Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action”

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition explores the grassroots advocacy group that confronted the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York Irvine, Calif., September 16, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine’s Room Gallery announces the opening of Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action...

Curating Connections

  Virginia Arce, M.F.A. ’17, a OC Arts Awards 2024 Emerging Arts Leader, shares her curatorial philosophy at the Irvine Fine Arts Center: A Q&A session   UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) alumna Virginia Arce, M.F.A. ’17, will be honored as an Emerging Arts...

An “L.A. Story”

Kevin Appel, UC Irvine Department of Art chair, displays work at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood Kevin Appel, professor and Department of Art chair at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts is currently featured in the highly anticipated exhibition L.A. Story at Hauser & Wirth...

Complexity in Focus

Getty and the Beall Center for Art + Technology highlight the complexity of our modern challenges By Christine Byrd If we learn anything from living through this era of “unprecedented” events, it might be to expect the unexpected. Weather affects the supply chain, health impacts education,...

Celebrating Alumni in the Arts

Alumni Appreciation Month at Claire Trevor School of the Arts August marks Alumni Appreciation Month at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA). This initiative honors the achievements of graduates in the fields of art, dance, drama and music. This year, we are excited to...

2024 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Recipients

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 UC Irvine Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship (GDDF) recipients. The competitive fellowship provides financial support to graduate and doctoral students in the final stages of their thesis and dissertation research. This...

2024 Medici Circle Scholars

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names eleven new Medici Circle Scholars UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 Medici Circle Scholars. Eleven scholarships were awarded to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. These scholarships allow...

Embracing Artistic Risks

Mike Davis, who runs the West Hollywood art gallery of Hauser & Wirth, says UCI connections are critical to his success By Greg Hardesty Mike Davis considers himself a risk taker. “And I owe that to my father,” says Davis, a studio art major (B.A. ’08) and now a senior director at the...

Arts Advocates: Reza Jahangiri

RISK TAKER Q&A with Reza Jahangiri Reza Jahangiri ’00 is the founder of American Advisors Group, a pioneer in the reverse mortgage industry. A lifelong music lover, he serves on the Dean’s Arts Board in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts as well as the board of the Pacific Symphony. He...