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02/17/2026

Some of our current cohort, will have pieces in the Education Lab at — you can view it at the opening Frieze Party, Monday 2/24 from 6-10pm. RSVP in the bio!

02/15/2026

The Salon of 2026: A Roundtable on Art Writing
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 7:00 pm 
Ahmanson Auditorium
Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

The Salon of 2026: A Roundtable on Art Writing

Jason Farago is a critic at large at The New York Times, where he reviews exhibitions, conducts interviews and reports features across the United States and internationally. In 2023, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

Isabelle Graw is a professor of art history and art theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt am Main, who is currently based in Berlin. She founded the journal, Texte zur Kunst, in 1990 with Stefan Germer (†) and has both conceived and co-edited 119 issues to date. In 2003 she co-founded the Institut für Kunstkritik at the Städelschule with Daniel Birnbaum.

Alexi Worth is a New York-based painter whose work explores what it means, in our digitally supersaturated environment, for pictures to be “mindmade and handmade.” In his own distinctively precise and compressed style, Worth offers puzzling, reinvented versions of ordinary things, among them wineglasses, doorways, hands, and leaves. With unusual surfaces and viewpoints, Worth’s art differs from much recent figuration in its economy and simplicity, suggesting an effort to return the contemplative power of abstraction to figurative art.

Diva Corp is an LA-based criticism project, just over a year old. In addition to publishing work on their own platforms, they’ve written recently for Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, Cultured, and Artillery, and have been covered by Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Frieze, Spike Art Magazine, artnet, The Art Newspaper, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Rabkin Foundation.

02/06/2026

MFA alumni Alexandra Noel is in this show at Bel Amila
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Everything looks dark now
February 20 - April 25, 2026

Opening reception Friday, February 20, 6-9pm

Sebastian Black, Camille Blatrix, Grichka Commaret, Guillaume Dénervaud, Ian Miyamura, Dana Lok, Alexandra Noel, Leigh Ruple, Lauren Satlowski, and Erin Calla Watson

02/04/2026

Isabelle Graw presents Sterling Ruby

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 7:00 pm 
LA Times Media Center
ArtCenter Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

Sterling Ruby (b. 1972) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist whose expansive practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, collage, video, and installation. Recognized for its sustained engagement with the complexities of contemporary life, Ruby’s art explores themes of violence, confinement, societal pressures, and transformation through a rigorous focus on material and artistic process. Often organized in series, Ruby’s work compiles fragments and gestures drawn from his surroundings and personal experience, transforming the everyday into reflections on cultural tension and change.

A distinguished ArtCenter alumnus, Ruby’s work is held in museum collections worldwide and has been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions including MAMO – Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France (2025); Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2020); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida (2019); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (2019); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2017).

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Isabelle Graw is a professor of art history and art theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt am Main, who is currently based in Berlin. She founded the journal, Texte zur Kunst, in 1990 with Stefan Germer (†) and has both conceived and co-edited 119 issues to date. In 2003 she co-founded the Institut für Kunstkritik at the Städelschule with Daniel Birnbaum.

02/03/2026

Jordan Carter presents Renée Green

Tuesday, February 03, 2026 7:00 pm LA Times Media Center
ArtCenter Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

Renée Green (b. 1959, Cleveland, OH) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her layered, formally complex multimedia installations in which ideas, perception, and experience are examined from myriad perspectives. Employing film, writing, installation, digital media, architecture, sound, and events, her art investigates circuits of relation and exchange over time, the gaps and shifts in what survives in public and private memories, as well as what has been imagined and invented. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Equator Has Moved, Dia Beacon, New York, NY; Inevitable Distances, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, both Berlin, Germany and at Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, Switzerland; and Contact, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.

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Jordan Carter joined Dia Art Foundation as curator and co-head of the curatorial department in 2021, where he has curated exhibitions including Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved (2025), Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) (2025), Keith Sonnier (2024), Lucas Samaras (2024), Mary Heilmann: Starry Night (2024), stanley brouwn (2023), Tony Cokes (2023), and Jo Baer (2022). Last year also saw the opening of Carter’s Cameron Rowland: Properties, following the 2023 announcement of Dia’s stewardship of the artist’s Depreciation (2018), as one of its twelve sites and locations. His forthcoming projects include presentations of the work of Agnes Martin and Howardena Pindell, and major new commissions by D Harding, Fujiko Nakaya, and Haegue Yang. Carter oversees Dia’s permanent collection and works closely on the preservation of and programming around its permanent installations, including Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76), both located in Utah. He is part of the curatorial ensemble for the 2026 edition of the Counterpublic art triennial in St. Louis.

01/20/2026

Current MFA Faculty Jan Tumlir will be apart of this panel!

RUDIMENTARY FIGURES

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Jan Tumlir, Eli Bonerz, and Ross Simonini
Saturday, January 24, from 4-6 PM

PHASE Gallery, 1718 Albion Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Please join us for a discussion between Jan Tumlir, Eli Bonerz, and Ross Simonini this coming Saturday, January 24, from 4-6 pm. Tumlir is the organizer of our current exhibition Rudimentary Figures. Bonerz and Simonini are the authors/editors of a forthcoming volume on the work of Rhoda Kellogg, who furnished this show with its theoretical and practical cardinal points.

01/17/2026

Charles Ray

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 7:00 pm 
LA Times Media Center
ArtCenter Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

The Spring 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky and Jason Smith

Charles Ray (b. 1953) grew up in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles in 1981, where he currently lives and works. For almost fifty years Ray has been making art that engages the mind and the eye. His earliest works often included his own performing body. More recently he has focused on his art’s relationship to the long history of sculpture. This can be seen not only in his engagement with the fundamental elements of the medium — space, mass, and texture — but also in his adoption of historical themes, including the equestrian portrait, the reclining n**e, and the relief. At the same time, Ray’s works are firmly embedded in their time and place, with subject matter and techniques attuned to our historical moment.

Ray’s art has been featured in Documenta, three Venice Biennales, and six Whitney Biennials, and his sculptures have been the subject of five retrospectives: Charles Ray, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA which traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (1988-89); Charles Ray, at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland and the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2014-15); and in 2022, separate solo presentations opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as, the Centre Pompidou and Bourse de Commerce in Paris, France.

Images: 8FLU100 (2024), Charles Ray, Photo: Aaron Wax

12/19/2025

Alumni — Angeline Rivas: I Had a Dark Night of the Soul and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, December 13, 2025–May 3, 2026

Artist’s talk with Angeline Rivas and Christina Catherine Martinez: March 11, 6–7pm

12/18/2025

Come see the second year MFA students work during open studios! .parker

12/15/2025

This Thursday! Join us for a night of revelry and a rare peek into our graduate studios and galleries!

12/15/2025

A fun exchange with our peers last Friday!

12/15/2025

This Thursday!! Come join us for a night of revelry and a rare peak into our Graduate studios and galleries.

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