Past Exhibitions
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Frames Per Second
Dates: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 to Sat, Jan 28, 2023 Location: Sesnon Gallery 1/2/2023 Update: Frames Per Second has been extended through January 28, 2023! The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Galleries are pleased to announce Frames Per Second, a rotating exhibition of exemplary films…
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Archive & Collections Hub
Dates: Wed, Jul 27, 2022 to Sat, Dec 31, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery MARY PORTER SESNON ART GALLERIES ARCHIVE & COLLECTIONS HUB Visit our Archives & Collections Hub to browse the Charles Griffin Farr Collection and some of our exhibition ephemera. The Exhibition…
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Don’t Forget About Art: Sesnon Underground Group Portfolio
Dates: Tue, May 24, 2022 Don’t Forget About Art is a group portfolio featuring art by UC Santa Cruz students inspired by the Shit Must Stop/S.M.S. portfolios (1968, Letter Edged in Black Press). Organized by the Sesnon…
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Irwin 2022: Amelia Smyth
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Amelia Smyth was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley, California, and has always had a strong connection with nature in all of its forms. Studying both Fine Arts and Chemistry as…
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Irwin 2022: Valerie Jackson
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Valerie Jackson is a photography/mixed media artist finishing her senior year at UCSC. Inspired by her mother, she started photographing her life from a young age, but didn’t decide to pursue a degree…
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Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Dates: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 to Sun, Aug 14, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation brings together works on paper by the influential artist, which explore how constructions of Blackness…
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Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms
Dates: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 to Sat, Mar 19, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery UC Santa Cruz continues to monitor COVID-19 developments and remains prepared to act quickly and appropriately in response. Additional mitigations and protocols may be announced to ensure…
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10 x 10: Ten Women / Ten Prints
Dates: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 to Sat, Apr 30, 2022 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery 10 x 10: Ten Women / 10 Prints is a portfolio of ten screenprints compiled and published by the Berkeley Art Center and Jos Sances of Alliance…
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PLANETARY INDIGESTION: public conversation series (online)
Dates: Fri, Nov 19, 2021 to Fri, Jun 3, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery PLANETARY INDIGESTION is a year-long series of conversations and performative lectures about food, ecology & biotechnology between the Center for Genomic Gastronomy (CGG), UC Santa Cruz faculty and…
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First Generation Arts Alumni Virtual Exhibition
Dates: Thu, Apr 22, 2021 to Tue, May 25, 2021 Location: Sesnon Gallery Sesnon Speak Up: Visibilizing Possibilities, a panel discussion with First Generation Arts Alumni April 22, 3:30-5:00pm during Alumni Week 2021 The Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery Art Gallery is proud…
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UC Santa Cruz Solitary Garden
Solitary Garden, the participatory public sculpture and garden project by jackie sumell, is on view at UC Santa Cruz Baskin Art Studios. Perched on a slope at UC Santa Cruz overlooking Monterey Bay, Solitary Garden is…
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Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas
Dates: Wed, Feb 3, 2021 to Sun, Apr 11, 2021 Location: Sesnon Gallery Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas Virtual Exhibition Dates: February 3–December 31, 2021 (virtually ongoing)This virtual exhibition will showcase the breadth of Eduardo Carrillo’s work spanning from his early…