UCR ARTS

UCR ARTS UCR ARTS's programs investigate the art of our time, through exhibitions, performances, screenings, w Visit our website for more information → ucrarts.ucr.edu

By joining the California Museum of Photography, Sweeney Art Gallery, and Culver Center of the Arts, UCR ARTS serves as a cultural anchor for the University and the City in the heart of historic downtown Riverside.

Join us next Thursday, June 4, for a special performance from the UCR Jazz Ensemble at UCR ARTS!UCR Jazz Ensemble is a t...
05/29/2026

Join us next Thursday, June 4, for a special performance from the UCR Jazz Ensemble at UCR ARTS!

UCR Jazz Ensemble is a traditional 18-piece big band, whose repertoire spans the last 100 years of jazz composition – from Count Basie to the cutting-edge composers and arrangers of today.

🔗 Learn more by visiting https://ow.ly/CC4o50Z4PgR!

UCR graduates have curated Shaping the Imperialist Imagination Stereographs from the Museum Collection as part of their ...
05/29/2026

UCR graduates have curated Shaping the Imperialist Imagination Stereographs from the Museum Collection as part of their capstone seminar in the History of Art. This exhibition steps into the fascinating world of early stereographic technology and displays how these immersive images—the television of their era—shaped American attitudes toward other cultures. Shaping the Imperialist Imagination examines how these popular 3D photographs allowed Americans to “travel” globally without leaving their homes, while subtly reinforcing notions of cultural hierarchy and imperial superiority.

📍 Visit this exhibition at UCR ARTS in downtown Riverside.

Installation Images by Nikolay Maslov.

On view through July 26, 2026, Lenard Smith, a Ghanaian-American studio-based photographer whose work often depicts stil...
05/27/2026

On view through July 26, 2026, Lenard Smith, a Ghanaian-American studio-based photographer whose work often depicts still life tableaux taking inspiration from other artistic media including sculpture and architecture, in particular African Brutalist structures.

UCR ARTS presents selections from two bodies of work, “Fortuitous Encounter” (2018–20) and “Melancholy Objects” (2022). Both series titles refer to the work of critic Susan Sontag (1933–2004), whose writing on photography has been instrumental to the theorization of the medium.

Visit UCR ARTS in downtown Riverside to view this exhibition.

Image: After Ye Must Be Born Again, 2020, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy of the Artist.

05/22/2026

This is your last chance! Spectral Visage: UCR Senior Exhibition 2026 closes Sunday, May 31. Don't miss it!

ucrarts This Thursday you can join us for a FREE virtual conversation with photographers Laura McPhee, Terry Evans, and ...
05/19/2026

ucrarts This Thursday you can join us for a FREE virtual conversation with photographers Laura McPhee, Terry Evans, and Mark Klett, moderated by Toby Jurovics, about their landscape work in relation to the writings of Barry Lopez.

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez explores our connection to the land through photography. The exhibition brings together photographs by 50 artists, offering a sweeping portrait of the diverse landscapes that shape our lives and imaginations. From badlands and sandhills to old-growth forests and slot canyons, from the New England coast to the Great Lakes, the photographs evoke the distinctive character of American topography—at once quotidian and mythic, welcoming and forbidding. Collectively, the exhibition explores the power of place and the ways photographs help us see, understand, and re-connect with the land.

🗓️ May 21, 2026
⏰ 1 p.m. PST
💻 Virtual
🔗 Visit https://ow.ly/ow2050YZ52e to RSVP for free!

Image: Laura McPhee, Irrigator’s Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, 2004, The Home Ground Collection: Gift of the artist in honor of Barry Lopez, Sheldon Museum of Art.

What were we like in the '90s?You had to be here. Were you? Tell us about it in the comments!
05/17/2026

What were we like in the '90s?

You had to be here. Were you? Tell us about it in the comments!

UCR ARTS congratulates Fariba Hajamadi () on winning a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship! Support UCR ARTS and take home...
05/16/2026

UCR ARTS congratulates Fariba Hajamadi () on winning a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship! Support UCR ARTS and take home your own limited edition work by the artist by visiting our museum store today.

Installation view, Fariba Hajamadi: History is in the Caption, 2026 (photo by Nikolay Maslov/UCR ARTS)

Headshot photo by Steffanie Padilla.

This is your last chance. Ansel Adams: Lost in the Wilderness closes this Sunday, May 17 — don't let the final weekend p...
05/15/2026

This is your last chance. Ansel Adams: Lost in the Wilderness closes this Sunday, May 17 — don't let the final weekend pass you by!

Ansel Adams lost his way. The great American photographer stood at the summit of his life, renowned, celebrated. Then came the 1960s: the civil rights movement, the counterculture, free love, psychedelics, assassinations, Vietnam War protests, marches, and chaos. Even more traumatically for the country’s preeminent photographer, photography itself changed beneath him. The new generation of 1960s photographers didn’t give a damn about rocks and trees. They rejected the pieties of tradition and the shackles of Adams’ “Zone System.” Photo historian Jonathan Green: “The obsessions of sixties photography were ruthless: alienation, deformity, sterility, insanity, sexuality, be***al and mechanical violence, and obscenity.”

📅 Open this Friday & Saturday before closing Sunday, May 17
🔗 Visit https://ow.ly/h2xf50YZ5k2 for details.

Join us for a FREE virtual conversation with photographers Laura McPhee, Terry Evans, and Mark Klett, moderated by Toby ...
05/15/2026

Join us for a FREE virtual conversation with photographers Laura McPhee, Terry Evans, and Mark Klett, moderated by Toby Jurovics, about their landscape work in relation to the writings of Barry Lopez.

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez explores our connection to the land through photography. The exhibition brings together photographs by 50 artists, offering a sweeping portrait of the diverse landscapes that shape our lives and imaginations. From badlands and sandhills to old-growth forests and slot canyons, from the New England coast to the Great Lakes, the photographs evoke the distinctive character of American topography—at once quotidian and mythic, welcoming and forbidding. Collectively, the exhibition explores the power of place and the ways photographs help us see, understand, and re-connect with the land.

🗓️ May 21, 2026
⏰ 1 p.m. PST
💻 Virtual
🔗 Visit https://ow.ly/hEV050YZ52g to RSVP for free!

Image: Laura McPhee, Irrigator’s Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, 2004, The Home Ground Collection: Gift of the artist in honor of Barry Lopez, Sheldon Museum of Art.

We're celebrating this Saturday and YOU'RE invited! Join us for the opening reception of Spectral Visage — UCR Senior Ex...
05/14/2026

We're celebrating this Saturday and YOU'RE invited!

Join us for the opening reception of Spectral Visage — UCR Senior Exhibition 2026 — and witness the vision, dedication, and creativity of 24 graduating students from UC Riverside Art Department. From paintings to sculpture, photography to video, there's something for everyone.

📅 Saturday, May 16, 2026
🕓 4–6 p.m.
📍 UCR ARTS

Free and open to the public!

🔗 Visit https://ow.ly/B8T450YZ4Qc to learn more!

SEE YOU THERE!

Thank you to everyone who attended our paired Storytelling Through Photography reception and Family First Sunday! Be sur...
05/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our paired Storytelling Through Photography reception and Family First Sunday! Be sure to attend our next one in the fall!

Congratulations to the local high school students whose work, inspired by Lenard Smith: Fortuitous Encounters and Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, is now on view in our new exhibition at the Culver Center of the Arts!

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