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10/16/2026

We are delighted to announce that our sixth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Eric Wesley.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 20th October, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103.
This lecture is free and open to the public.

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Eric Wesley (b. 1973 in Los Angeles; based in Los Angeles) is a conceptual artist working in various different mediums. His work explores the interactions of fine art with popular culture, science and humor.

Wesley is the co-founder of MSA (Mountain School of Art) in Los Angeles. Wesley has participated in the 2022 and 2004 Whitney Biennials and the 2014 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions including MOCA Los Angeles and Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.

Wesley’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Sculpture Center, New York, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. His work can be found in the public collection at the Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy; and MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, David Kordansky, Jeffrey Deitch, Gattopardo, Tara Walters, Alan Hergott, and an anonymous donor.

Image rights:
1) Eric Wesley, Infinity Project (black), courtesy of the artist.
2) Eric Wesley, courtesy of the artist.

10/10/2026

We are delighted to announce that our fifth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Alex Hubbard in conversation with Richard Hawkins.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 13th October, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975 Toledo, Oregon) received a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland in 1999. In 2003 he attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Richard Hawkins lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibiting since the early 1990s, he has developed a body of work that turns on the erotics of visibility, fueled by what he calls “a combination of historical research and boyish obsessions.” Such deep delves into figures as diverse as Forrest Bess, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Pierre Bonnard has led to a multifarious practice spanning painting, collage, video, ceramics, sculpture, fiction and more.

Image rights: 1) Installation view of Alex Hubbard’s exhibition, Abstract or Regular, courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2) Alex Hubbard, courtesy of the artist.
3) Richard Hawkins, courtesy of the artist.

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975 Toledo, Oregon) received a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland in 1999. In 2003 he attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Selected solo exhibitions include Cranford Arts Collection, London (2015); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); The Kitchen, New York (2010); KunstHalle Berlin, Berlin (2010); Mercer Union, Toronto (2010); and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2009). Hubbard’s works have also been featured in group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022–2023); de la Cruz Collection, Miami (2022–2023); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2018); Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2016); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2016); Whitney Museu

10/07/2026

This week the Graduate Press class got hands on with a Risograph!

Students learnt the in’s and out’s of Riso printing using collaborative line drawings made for an exciting upcoming project with Hauser & Wirth‘s Los Angeles Art Galleries inspired by the current Glenn Ligon exhibition.

A big thank you to Bonnie Lee for taking the time to run such a brilliant demo!

10/03/2026

📣Attention all Spring 2025 Graduates!📣

DEADLINE EXTENDED until October 18th!
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Congratulations! You earned it.

We want to support and celebrate
your success as you transition
from college to career! Please stay
connected by completing our online
graduate employment survey.
Your responses will help us to better
serve current and future students.

If you graduated in spring 2025 the survey link will be sent via email.
Please make sure the College has
your current email address.

A $10 digital reward will be available
on completion.

For questions, contact
Sarah Fitzpatrick
Center for Educational Effectiveness
[email protected]

10/02/2026

Congratulations to Diana Thater, Chair of the Art Department at ArtCenter who will be showing work in Ecotechnics at UCI Beall Center

Opening reception - Saturday, October 10th, 2 - 5 pm.

Exhibition will be open from 10/10/26 until 02/06/27, Tues to Sat, 12-6pm.

712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, CA, 92697

10/02/2026

MFA faculty Jan Tumlir will be in conversation with Kim Schoen for the finissage of her show at Die Plek

11am, 10/03/26

DIE PLEK
8758 Holloway Drive
West Hollywood, CA
90069

10/01/2026

We are delighted to announce that our fourth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Won Ju Lim.

The event will be held on Tuesday, October 6th, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces drawing upon empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority.

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at UCR Arts, Riverside; the Elzig Museum, Istanbul; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; the Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art, Seoul; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Her triennial and biennial exhibitions include Counterpublic Triennial 2026: Coyote Time, St. Louis; International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands; the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale, Münster.

Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Lim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Woodbury University and an MFA in Studio Art from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Image rights: 1) Won Ju Lim, That Sense of Complexity…, exhibition view, UCR Arts, Photo by Nickolay Maslov.
2) Won Ju Lim, portrait, courtesy of the artist.

09/24/2026

We are very excited to announce that our third Graduate Seminar speaker will be Kathryn Andrews.

The event will be held on Tuesday, September 29th, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Kathryn Andrews is a conceptual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, printmaking, and performance. Andrews’ work invites viewers to consider their own relationship to histories of violence.

Andrews has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; the High Line, New York; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and the Bass Museum of Art, Miami. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tense Conditions at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; and In Production: Art and the Studio System at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.

Andrews is also the Founder and Director of The Judith Center, a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that addresses structural sexism through interdisciplinary initiatives spanning the arts, sciences, and public policy.

Andrews holds an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, a BA in Documentary Studies from Duke University, Durham, and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. In addition to her work as an artist and with The Judith Center, Andrews is a psychotherapist.

Image rights, 1) Kathryn Andrew, Circus Empire, courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE.
2) Kathryn Andrews, courtesy of the artist.

09/21/2026

For this week’s Graduate Art Seminar students and faculty were invited by Thomas Demand to Matthew Marks gallery for a walkthrough of his latest exhibition.

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. We would like to extend a special thank you to Thomas Demand and Matthew Marks Gallery for hosting us and being so generous with their time.

Born in 1964 in Munich, Thomas Demand is known for his large-scale photographs, depicting motifs from mass-media images or from his personal archive, reconstructed life-size from paper and cardboard. He initially focused on sculpture, using photography to document his paper and cardboard reconstructions. In 1990, however, photography and sculpture traded places in his artistic process; the photograph became the artwork. Ultimately, Demand strives to overturn the notion of photography as an inevitably objective or truthful medium, exploring the gap between reality and its representation.

Demand has held solo exhibitions at major museums and galleries worldwide, such as: MAK, Vienna (2026); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2024); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2023); UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022); Garage Moscow, Moscow (2021); Fondazione Prada, Venice (2017); DHC Art Center, Montréal (2013); MOT Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2012); Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2009); Serpentine Gallery, London (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2004); and Fondation Cartier in Paris (2001).

09/14/2026

The ArtCenter Graduate Art MFA program is pleased to announce the celebration of our 40th anniversary with a special edition of the Fall 2026 Graduate Seminar Lecture Series, organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Fall 2026 September 15 (7:30pm): Graham Harman in conversation with Jan Tumlir* / September 20 (closed to the public and will take place off-site): Thomas Demand / September 29: Kathryn Andrews* / October 6: Won Ju Lim / October 13: Alex Hubbard in conversation with Richard Hawkins* / October 20: Eric Wesley / October 27: Sean Raspet / November 3: e-flux panel with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres and Juliana Halpert* / November 10: John Divola / November 17: Rita McBride / December 1: Stan Douglas* / December 8: Lita Albuquerque* / December 15: Patti Podesta* in conversation with Diana Thater*

ArtCenter’s Graduate Seminar lecture series is a forum for graduate students, members of the ArtCenter community and the general public to enter into dialogue with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. Unless otherwise indicated, lectures are free, open to the public and take place most Tuesday evenings at 7pm in the L.A. Times Media Center unless otherwise indicated. Check out our website to confirm dates, times and locations for the lecture series and for more information about the Graduate Art program.

*Special guests are marked for their contributions to the department and institution.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, David Kordansky, Alan Hergott, and Jeffrey Deitch.

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