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UC Irvine Launches Certificate in Teaching Artistry to Prepare Artists for Expanding Education Careers

The new program aims to support the growing demand from arts organizations, schools and community partners Irvine, Calif., Feb. 14, 2026 – The UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, in collaboration with the UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education, has launched a new Certificate in...

Kevin Appel Explores Rhythm and Restraint in New York Exhibition 'Intervals'

A new body of work expands Appel’s geometric abstraction through color and material experimentation. Intervals, a new solo exhibition by Kevin Appel, professor and chair of the Department of Art at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, opens Feb. 19 at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York...

Beatrice Schleyer: Reclaiming Wreckage, Reframing Modernism

Medici Circle Scholar Beatrice Schleyer and Her Trip to The Chinati Foundation By Gamy Cortes For Department of Art M.F.A '27 student, Beatrice Schleyer, making art with auto parts that have been involved in collisions, entails having an awareness of their provenance.  “I'm interested...

The Mutable Archive Brings Arts Research into Dialogue with Medical Humanities

Organized by Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson and  Director for the Center of Medical Humanities, Dr. Kelli Sharp, the Feb. 12–13 xMPL program features Patricia Olynyk and Adam Hogan in a two-day expanded cinema event UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts...

The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise…

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Artists: Marwa Arsanios, Ashley Hunt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and virgil b/g taylor  Curators: Juli Carson, Annika Haas, and Sasha Ussef Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery On View: January 24-April 4, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7, 2-5...

Bruce Yonemoto Named CSUN’s Orndorff Artist-in-Residence

Bruce Yonemoto has spent a lifetime exploring experimental cinema and video art and has developed a body of work that positions itself within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce.

Now on Hammer Channel! Watch the Made in L.A. 2025 Artist Profile on Amanda Ross-Ho

"Time is both the subject and the material that I work with." Made in L.A. 2025 artist Amanda Ross Ho takes us inside a new installation of four monumental doors, modeled after the doors in her father's and aunt's nursing facility.

Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantee

The Department of Art alumna is among 20 artists selected nationwide for the expanded two-year Stepping Stone grants program UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumna Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, has been named one of the 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantees, receiving...

UCI Students showcase art in fall 2025 ‘Tenth Thursday’ exhibition

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts held its quarterly undergraduate student exhibition on Dec. 4, showcasing a wide range of creativity and projects that students have been working on throughout the quarter.

UCI Arts 2025 Year in Review

Reflecting back on a year of exceptional milestones  The past year marked a significant moment for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, coinciding with UC Irvine’s 60th anniversary and the continued celebration of the 25th anniversary of the naming of the school. Together, these milestones...

Simon Leung and Yong Soon Min Featured in ARTnews Awards 2025 Best Thematic Museum Exhibition

Artists recognized for the second consecutive year in ARTnews Award–winning exhibitions For the second consecutive year, UC Irvine Department of Art professor Simon Leung and the late professor emerita Yong Soon Min are featured artists in an exhibition recognized by ARTnews as Best Thematic...

Against Outer Space, Curated by Zachary Korol Gold and Valerie Olson

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT On View: November 15, 2025–February 28, 2026 IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2025 – The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to announce the opening of Against Outer Space, curated by Zachary Korol Gold, assistant curator of the...

Parallel Play: Experiments in Picturing the Arctic

UC Irvine Art Professor Jesse Colin Jackson presents a film installation and colloquium with anthropologist Lindsay Bell, exploring northern life through art and ethnography The UC Irvine Department of Anthropology, Center for Ethnography, and EcoGovLab will host Parallel Play: Experiments in...

Making Space to Redefine

Alison O’Daniel (M.F.A. ’10) is changing the game in art and film By Richard Chang Alison O’Daniel (M.F.A. art, 2010) has placed Deaf culture at the focal point in her art and film work, and that has positioned her at the forefront of an international cultural movement.  The visual...

UC Irvine alumnus Tuan Andrew Nguyen named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alum and multi-disciplinary artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. Nguyen, 49, is one of six artists and 22 total recipients this year to win the prestigious award.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen ’99 Named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts alumnus recognized for his multidisciplinary works exploring memory, displacement and the legacies of war Department of Art alumnus Tuan Andrew Nguyen ’99 has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation....

UCI Arts Summer 2025 Faculty Highlights

A look at faculty news and creative activity from summer 2025 From curating thought-provoking exhibitions and premiering new choreography to receiving national awards and fellowships, faculty across the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) remained active throughout the summer....

Art That Moves L.A.

UC Irvine artists featured at the Hammer Biennial By Christine Byrd When Made in L.A. 2025 opens at the Hammer Museum on Oct. 5, the highly anticipated biennial will not only offer insight into the City of Angels’ artistic impulses but also UC Irvine’s growing influence on the region’s art...