Past 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…
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Irwin Scholars Annual Exhibition
May 14 – June 14 Opening Celebration: May 14, 5-7pm Referents presents selected artwork from the recipients of the 38th annual Irwin Scholarship, featuring Elijah Dalley, Rory Gershen, Nathan Casey, Alison Nesbitt, Lola Lankford, Jaden Anderson,…
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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…
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Céline Grenier: R/Evolution
9/30/2025-10/25/25 2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UCSC. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range of media. Grenier is both inspired by…
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Cobija de Tripas EA+SP MFA
4/2-5/3/2025. The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program at UCSC presents new projects developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists unique long-term research…
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Cruz Zamarrón: Chicano Trickster
2/19-3/15-2025. Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery & Museo Eduardo Carrillo present the collected works of Chicano artist and UCSC alumni Cruz Ortiz Zamarrón. Through the artist’s unique style, this collection of paintings and drawings captures the cultural…
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Ukupupuka: An Exploration of Transcendence
1/8-2/8/2025 Ukupupuka, translated from Bemba (the most spoken language in Zambia) to English, means flight. In Ukupupuka: An Exploration of Transcendence, Zambian multi-disciplinary artist and scholar Aaron Samuel Mulenga explores various visual avenues of elevation and flight which…
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Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective
Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman. Throughout his seven-decade career, Foreman sculpted visceral reflections of his experiences with metal and the American landscape,…
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EASP Grad Exhibition: Search Party
Dates: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 to Sun, May 19, 2024 Location: Sesnon Gallery Search Party The culminating exhibition for the UCSC 2024 EASP MFA cohort FREE and open to the public Opening Celebration: 4/19/2024 – 5-7pm (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) March…
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Remove by X: UC Santa Cruz Protests in Print
Dates: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 to Sat, Apr 29, 2023 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery This exhibition brings together an archive of documents, posters, and photographs of 20th century organizing at UC Santa Cruz. From protesting the Vietnam War to organizing against…
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Remove by X: UC Santa Cruz Arts Ephemera from the 20th Century
Dates: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 to Sat, Apr 29, 2023 Location: Sesnon Gallery Appearing overnight and often disappearing the next, posters advertising senior recitals, art exhibitions, and performances form the dynamic visual backdrop to life on the UC Santa Cruz…
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Flora: Lucie Noël Thune
Dates: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 to Sat, Dec 3, 2022 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery For over a decade, Lucie Noël Thune has created seductive, challenging, and poetic works of art that highlight our relationship to the artificial. Found objects, chemical…