Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
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The Cosmos is My Canvas
Works By Raja GuhaThakurta 11/4/25-12/6/25 Opening Celebration: 11/6/2025, 5-7pm Artist Talk: 12/4/2025, 5-6pm Raja GuhaThakurta’s life has straddled art and the study of the cosmos for the last forty years. He is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC, where he and his students conduct research in observational astrophysics. Those observation skills are present…
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Sam Williams: Deep in The Eye and The Belly
October 2, 2025 – December 5, 2025 Deep in The Eye and The Belly is an ongoing body of work by Sam Williams entwining stories of cetacean bodies with imagined oceanic futures in which these bodies become shelter for humans who returned to the oceans in the wake of climate collapse. This exhibition is a satellite…
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Cut/Woven/Spoken
Works by Pilar Agüero-Esparza 01/07/2026-02/07/2026 Cut/Woven/Spoken surveys the work of UCSC Art Department Alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza. Her artistic inquiry begins with the materials and processes inherent in growing up within a shoemaking family. In the craft tradition of huarache-making (Mexican indigenous sandals), her current practice revolves around repetitive gestures like the weaving of leather, the…
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The One with the Manes
“The one with the manes” is a multimedia exhibition exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Inspired by a forced exodus across the Atlantic, the exhibition explores rituality, memory, archives, and embodiment. The installations offer subtle gestures that defamiliarize the art space and bear witness to the…
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Contact: Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
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