San Diego Art Institute

08/12/2021

Check out these featured artists at Bread & Salt for the SD Practice Exhibition, on display at SDAI through September 5 and Bread & Salt through September 12. SD Practice is a collection of artworks by local artists, purchased by City of San Diego in support of local artists during the pandemic.

Featured artist at Bread & Salt Include:

Matthew Hebert, Coronado Bowl, 2018. Wood, metal, acrylic paint, lacquer, glass beads. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Matthew Hebert

Terri Hughes-Oelrich, Wood (high-end construction waste), branches, 2019, City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Terri Hughes-Oelrich

Lisa Hutton, Greenfield, 2015, Graphite on paper. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Lisa Hutton

Janelle Iglesias, Snake Plant, Faux plastic plant, 2019, bar code stickers and price tags, adhesive. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Janelle Iglesias

Beliz Iristay, Where is He? 2019, Porcelain, wood paneling, silicone, gold leaf. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Beliz Iristay

Yasmine Kasem, The Mosque of First Friends Church - Prayer, 2019, Fabric paper, dye, cotton remnants. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Yasmine Kasem

Alexander Kohnke, Das Gemachte Nest, 2020, Archival prints and spray paint. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Alexander Kohnke

Aleya Lanteigne, From: Chair #4, 2018, Wood, wire, upholstery fabric, horse hair. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Aleya Lanteigne

Wendy Maruyama, Cenotaph, 2016, Steel, wood, glass, video components, monitors. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Wendy Maruyama

Jessica McCambly, Self Soother 4m, 2019, Acrylic, oil, ink, mica on canvas. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Jessica McCambly

08/02/2021

The SD Practice exhibition is currently at SDAI and Bread & Salt through September 5 (SDAI) and September 12 (Bread & Salt). The exhibition is a collection of artwork by local artists, purchased by the City of San Diego for the Civic Art Collection in support of the local arts community during the pandemic. To RSVP and visit the exhibition at SDAI, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145

07/24/2021

This weekend, stop by and experience SD Practice, a collection of artworks by local artists, purchased by the City of San Diego in support of local artists during the pandemic. You can visit the exhibition at SDAI and Bread & Salt. To RSVP and visit the exhibition at SDAI, curated by Lux Art Institute’s Andrew Utt and Guusje Sanders, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145

Featured artists at SDAI include:

Chitra Gopalakrishnan (), La Grande Odalisque, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas Artwork Date. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Marianela de la Hoz (), La presencia ausente de siempre, 2020, Egg tempera on board. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Marianela de la Hoz

Scott B. Davis ( B. Davis), Ironwood Tree Along Fault Line, Borrego mountain, 2018, Platinum palladium print, palladium paper. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Scott B. Davis

Victoria Fu (), Télévoix 2, 2019, Single-channel video, color, sound. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Victoria Fu

Sofia V. Gonzalez (), Taking Root (Central Arkansas, Quilt 1), 2015, Sumac, golden rod and eucalyptus natural dye. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Sofia V. Gonzales

07/22/2021

Check out SD Practice at Bread & Salt and SDAI, now through September 12. The public art exhibition features a collection of artworks acquired by the City of San Diego, purchased in support of local arts during the pandemic. Visit the exhibition at Bread and Salt from 11am-4pm, Tuesday-Saturday, no RSVP needed. To RSVP and visit the exhibition at SDAI, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145.

Featured artists at Bread & Salt include:

Bill Feeney, Exposing the Questions Which Have Been Hidden, 2020, Foam, paper, wood, twine, paint. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Bill Feeney

Thomas Driscoll, Artwork Title: Peanut, 2017, Mixed media on foam. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Thomas Driscoll

Kaori Fukuyama, Gibbous, 2020, Oil on panel. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Kaori Fukuyama

Christian Garcia-Olivo, Verde, Blanco, y Colorado, 2020, Acrylic on wood panel. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Christian Garcia-Olivo

Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Flor de papel #2, 2020, Digital photographic print. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Lorena Gómez Mostajo

Lux Art Institute

07/15/2021

SD Practice is now open at SDAI and Bread & Salt! The public art exhibition features a collection of artworks acquired by the City of San Diego , purchased in support of local arts during the pandemic. You can visit the exhibition at Bread & Salt from 11am-4pm, Tuesday-Saturday, no RSVP needed. To RSVP and visit the exhibition at SDAI, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145.

Featured artists at Bread & Salt include:

Andrew Alcasid, 7:17 Pink and Grey, 2020, Acrylic on unprimed canvas. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Andrew Alcasid

Kelsey Brookes, Primary Waveform (half circle) 2018, Acrylic on wood. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Kelsey Brookes

Juan Miguel Cabrera, Exploration (5), 2020, Watercolor and acrylic on paper. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Juan Miguel Cabrera

John Chang, Language, 2017-2019, Spray paint and carving letters. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © John Chang

Danielle Dean, She, 2017, Single-channel video, color, sound. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Danielle Dean

Lux Art Institute

07/12/2021

The SD Practice public art exhibition is now open at SDAI and Bread & Salt through September 5th. SD Practice features 100 artworks acquired by the City of San Diego, purchased in support of local arts during the pandemic. RSVP to visit the exhibition at SDAI: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145

Featured artists at SDAI include:

Carlos Castro, Public Trial - Testimonium, 2018, Oil on canvas. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Carlos Castro

Alida Cervantes, Salta pa' lante (Jump Forward), 2020, Acrylic spray paint and oil on aluminum. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Alida Cervantes

Andrea Chung, Endosymbiotic Theory, 2019, Brass, glass, sugar. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Andrea Chung

Cognate Collective, Transborder Trajectories, 2015, Archival giclee print. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Cognate Collective

Hugo Crosthwaite, Vestido Blanco (White Dress), 2018, Pencil, charcoal, and acrylic on paper. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Hugo Crosthwaite

Lux Art Institute

07/09/2021

SD Practice opens this Saturday, July 10 at SDAI and Bread & Salt! SD Practice is a public art exhibition featuring 100 artworks acquired by the City of San Diego, purchased in support of local arts during the pandemic, and will run through September 5. To RSVP to visit the exhibition at SDAI, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-sdai-for-sd-practice-tickets-158812728145

Featured artists at SDAI include Trevor Amery, Farshid Bazmandegan, Doris Bittar, Manuelita Brown, and Claudia Cano.

Artwork Info:
Trevor Amery, Looking Down, 2016-2018, Stones, cypress log, oil paint, panel, steel. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Trevor Amery

Farshid Bazmandegan, Untitled (Mix it Up), 2019, Customized concrete mixer. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Farshid Bazmandegan

Doris Bittar, Excavated World 1, 2019, Hand-cut collage, archival map. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Doris Bittar

Manuelita Brown, Missy, 2019, Bronze, granite. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Manuelita Brown

Claudia Cano, Los cepillos de limpieza de Rosa #5, 2020, Silkscreen print on paper. City of San Diego Civic Art Collection, purchase, through a gift of Thomas O. Rasmussen. © Claudia Cano

Lux Art Institute
City of San Diego

06/28/2021

'SD Practice' makes perfect

Many thanks to Seth Combs and The San Diego Union-Tribune for featuring the upcoming SD Practice exhibition! The show opens July 10 at both San Diego Art Institute and Bread & Salt, and will run through September 5. For more info, visit our website: https://www.sandiego-art.org/

Lux Art Institute
City of San Diego

City shows off newly purchased artworks at dual exhibitions in Balboa Park and Logan Heights

06/25/2021

We are excited to announce SD Practice, opening July 10! Co-presented by San Diego Art Institute and Bread & Salt, SD Practice is a public art exhibition featuring 100 artworks acquired by the City of San Diego, purchased in support of local arts during the pandemic. The presentation of SD Practice at SDAI is co-curated by Lux Art Institute and ICA San Diego's Executive Director, Andrew Utt and Associate Curator, Guusje Sanders.

Join us for the opening reception on July 10 from 4pm to 8pm. SD Practice will run through September 5. For opening reception tickets and more info on the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/upcoming/2021/6/17/sd-practice-opening-reception

05/29/2021

Measurements of Progress featured artist, Alexandra Neuman presents Mother Goddess Creature Complex, a single-channel video that opposes the upright ‘human being’ through the figuration of an alien becoming. Alien becomings are allied with the grotesque—“vaginal openings, intestinal worms, bodily fluids, voluptuous swamps, reptilian secretions—“anything too close to the fecundity of life, anything that carries the potential to disrupt the boundaries of self, anything possessing a slithering primordial power. This figuration unleashes the song that has been buried in matter since the beginning of the universe. Animal, vegetal, and mineral coexist using the mud of the planet as moisturizer.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs until tomorrow, May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to visit the exhibition before it closes, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress.

About the Artist
Alexandra Neuman is an interdisciplinary reptile currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and received a BFA in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She has participated in the Arteles Residency in Haukijarvi, Finland; the PRAKSIS Residency in Oslo, Norway; and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. Her films have been shown at Anthology Film Archive, Museum of the Moving Image, and the Eyeslicer. She is a Webby Award Honoree as well as the recipient of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) grant at Calit2.

Drawing on ideas from multi-species feminism and process philosophy, Neuman’s recent work focuses on mutating the identity of “human” by reshuffling naturalized systems of classification. In her practice, she cultivates ways to visualize, narrativize, perform, and facilitate speculative metamorphoses from ‘human being’ to ‘alien becoming’. She is interested in the category of ‘human being’ as a historically-situated and ideologically specific identity that serves to uphold millennia of patriarchal positionings, including the separation between mind/body, nature/culture, male/ female, self/world, same/other. By perforating the concept of ‘human being’ she is coaxing out an alternative identity that is characterized instead by liquidity and continuous transformation, where each ‘individual’ is reimagined as a co-emergent process with the ecologies and temporalities in which they are enmeshed.

Alexandra Neuman, Mother Goddess Creature Complex, 2021, single-channel video

05/27/2021

Measurements of Progress featured artist, Lauryn Smith presents Field Study, a large-scale textile installation that evokes the movement, feel, and experience of a field of dry grass, transporting memory to a new place that is familiar yet faded around the edges.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To attend this Saturday’s artist symposium and closing event and to RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/.

About the Artist
Lauryn Smith is an American artist based in Southern California. She is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. Smith was born and raised in rural Northern New York and received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2018.

Smith works with textiles alongside various sewing techniques and applications to create sculpture. Her practice is based around craft and material as well as concepts of memory, landscape, and phenomenological experiences. The process of making is essential to her practice, and while the work demands repetitive and laborious construction, the small details within each piece are carefully selected for their overall contribution to the work. Each work deals with its own set of concepts, but all of them are connected to craft, traditional practices of quilting, the body, movement, and the natural environment.

Lauryn Smith, Field Study, 2020, chiffon and thread

05/26/2021

Featured artist for Measurements of Progress, Alan Skelton presents Display Unit 1, Display Unit 2, and Garment Hooks (Souvenir). This series of objects questions how society consumes both goods and knowledge. With the internet, mass producing information, and consumerism ever expanding, his sculptures mimic the adaptability and ever changing environment in which we devour discriminatorily and with fetishized fervor.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

About the Artist
Alan Skelton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1983. He received his BFA and BA in Art History from the University of North Texas. Skelton is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. 


Skelton’s work explores the transmission and reception of objects, images, and materials. With a focus on the mass production of consumer goods, Skelton considers how ways of displaying, sales, and distribution have a seductive and magical allure. He utilizes appropriated and found images, materials, and objects in his work and strives to better understand life by laying bare the underlying systems within consumer culture that guide our behavior.

Alan Skelton, Garment Hooks, 2021, concrete and epoxy resin casts

Alan Skelton, Display Unit 1, 2021, steel, aluminum, inkjet print on acetate, hardware

Alan Skelton, Display Unit 2, 2021, peanut butter, BBQ, chicken “Nyla Bones,” climbing holds, steel, aluminum, inkjet print on acetate, hardware

05/25/2021

Measurements of Progress featured artist, Carolina Montejo presents a 3-channel installation based on her film Rizomas, which outlines a framework of justice, utopia, and revolution that seeks to confront diverse systems of oppression, while elevating the materiality of nature. Through an eclectic fusion of documentation, performance, and animation, Montejo’s piece includes multiple voices and landscapes that flow between memory, virtuality and possibility.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

About the Artist
Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American artist based in Southern California. She is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. Montejo has exhibited at ArtBo international Art Fair in Bogotá, Colombia; ArtexArte Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina; San Diego Art Institute, CA; CAA 108 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, and the San Diego International Airport amongst others. She is a member of Green New Deal at UC San Diego and is a Teaching Assistant in the Writing Department at Thurgood Marshall College.

Using film & video, performance, and installation, Montejo’s works are concerned with feminist eco-pluralistic thought, as well as human and more-than-human embodiment and intersubjectivity. Her work is informed by future and ancestry, by psychedelic experience, and intellectual inquiry. Her films shift through groundedness and speculation seeking to reestablish broken links between life forms, as well as building new environments for them to inhabit. The outcome takes shape through visual and literary poetics that decenter the self without denying determination, and experiment with form and concept in the spirit of renewal.

Carolina Montejo, Rizomas, 2021, single-channel video projection

05/25/2021

Join us this Saturday, May 29 for an exclusive in-person symposium and closing event for Measurements of Progress at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. The symposium features artists from the exhibition and is composed of four 45-minute panel conversations running from 1pm to 5pm and a closing reception to follow from 5pm to 6pm. To reserve a seat for this free event, visit https://www.sandiego-art.org/upcoming.

Lux Art Institute
UC San Diego

05/21/2021

Oscar Magallanes, featured artist for Measurements of Progress, presents The Creation of Race. The work draws upon cultural and popular iconography, along with pre-colonial to contemporary barrio and Chicano signifiers, which serve to simultaneously delineate and demarcate through visual vocabularies. This is reflected in the work’s use of iconography that cannot, through a western lens, be entirely or even at times partially understood in regard to the original meaning. While the entirety of the images are at first glance seemingly disparate, every image is carefully researched and every line in the work designed with a specific intent: there is much that can be read into the connections that are made by the individual viewer.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress.

About the Artist
Oscar Magallanes is a Los Angeles-based artist. He is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego and received his BA in Art from UCLA. His work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC; Museo CEART de Baja California Mexicali, Mexico; the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois; the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas; and is part of the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art, La Salle University Art Museum and the McNay Museum. In addition to his solo practice, Magallanes in 2016 founded 3B Art Collective that focuses on large-scale site-specific and public artworks. He has also curated several exhibitions including two for the Getty’s LA/LA initiative.

Magallanes’ paintings, sculptures, and mixed media are influenced by the cultural and social elements of his upbringing in a Mexican-American barrio east of downtown Los Angeles. Mixed with colonial period Mexican codices, texts, and artworks his work is drawing parallels to the plurality of existences.

Oscar Magallanes, The Creation of Race [La creación de la raza], 2019, mixed media on wood

05/19/2021

Measurements of Progress featured artist, Işık Kaya presents Crude, a single-channel video that investigates the United States’ relationship with oil. The hunger for this resource has defined the nation’s politics for decades and has poisoned landmasses around the world. In Los Angeles and its vicinity, home to the country’s largest urban oil field and refineries, America is being transformed into a bizarre engine, the pacemaker of the passing age of petroleum. The installation Crude depicts this engine as a complex web of constantly working machines. It is an audiovisual meditation on the conundrum of progress and self-destruction that is inherent to capitalist societies.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

About the Artist
Işık Kaya is an mfa candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego and holds a BA degree in Photography & Videography from Istanbul Bilgi University where she studied with the support of a full scholarship. She is the 2021 David Antin Prize awardee and has participated in exhibitions at the Royal Geographic Society in the UK; Die Digitale Dusseldorf in Germany; Kunsthalle Darmstadt in Germany; CEAAC in France; Galerie de L’Escale in France; CICA Museum in South Korea; and Soho Photo Gallery in the United States among others.

Kaya’s lens-based practice explores the ways in which humans shape the contemporary landscape. She focuses on traces of economic infrastructures to examine politics in built environments and how man’s dominance over nature finds its manifestation in everyday architecture. She erases the physical distance in between existing structures and creates dense compilations of industrial fragments to construct new landscapes that look both alien and familiar. By framing her subjects exclusively at night, she aims to accentuate these artificial and uncanny qualities of urban environments.

Işık Kaya, Crude, 2020, single-channel video

05/19/2021

Measurements of Progress featured artist, Kirstyn Hom, presents Sutured in Sweetness, a series of embroidered fabric panels inviting multiple readings of a poem that deals with holding grief and embodying joy. This piece is influenced by Frances Chung’s book of poetry, Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple, in which she plays with words and their corresponding images to articulate notions of belonging. Working with gestures of stitching and fraying allows Hom to create the in-between spaces that she occupies across language, culture and time.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

About the Artist
Kirstyn Hom is an interdisciplinary artist based in Southern California. She is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego, received her BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley, and studied abroad at Leeds University’s textile department in the UK.

Hom’s practice reflects on her grandmother’s experience as a seamstress in the apparel industry and larger conversations around intergenerational trauma. She constructs sculpture, installations, and performances to explore the relationship between language and textiles. Her process consists of long durational sewing, which parallels writing through gestures of repetition, layering, and erasure. Hom’s work questions how subverting craft methods can offer ways to navigate memory and loss.

Kirstyn Hom, Sutured in Sweetness, 2021

05/19/2021

Grace Grothaus: These Delicate Lines (that divide us)

Grace Grothaus, featured artist for our current exhibition, Measurements of Progress, presents These Delicate Lines (that divide us). The installation is a flag that presents a warning image of a potential future for our world: one in which all the polar ice has melted. The work asks us to reconsider our worldview as we look closer to our planet instead of what is beyond. Additionally, the flag is a deconstruction of nationalism and instead proposes a new perspective on the approach needed as a global society.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

About the Artist
Grace Grothaus is a mfa candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. She was amongst those that represented the United States in the 2012 World Creativity Biennale. Furthermore, she exhibited and is in collections both nationally and internationally. She received a merit award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the Art365 Fellowship. Her art has been featured on the cover of Art Focus magazine and This Land Press.

Grothaus is an interdisciplinary computational media artist. Her practice-based artistic research encompasses physical computing, environmental sensing, algorithmically generated imagery, and speculative futurity. She is deeply concerned with fostering empathetic relationships between human beings and our more-than-human environs in order to address our current critical climatological issues, particularly the pressing ecological crisis of biodiversity loss.

Grace Grothaus, These Delicate Lines (that divide us), 2020

05/14/2021

Thien Hoang Doan, 30 Years, 1 Second

For our current exhibition, Measurements of Progress, featured artist, Thien Hoang Doan presents 30 Years, 1 Second, a single channel video that addresses issues of social justice through particular references to war, geopolitical borders, and refugees. Embedded in the work are reminders of past and current conflicts and a warning for the future.

About the Artist
Thien Hoang Doan, was born in Vietnam in 1991 and now lives in Southern California. He is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. Doan was awarded the Research Grant from Wichita State University to develop his knowledge of the cyanotype process. He worked in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee in Wichita to create an exhibition of photography in recognition of World Refugee Day. In 2018, he received a Koch Cultural Trust grant to make a video Hazy Days of May in Hue City, Vietnam. 


Doan moved from Vietnam to the United States in 2011 and his work draws on the experience of cultural destabilization and histories of immigration. His work combines historical photographic processes with digital technology and incorporates other media such as video and sound. Social justice issues particularly war, geopolitics, refugees, and immigration figure heavily in his recent projects.

Measurements of Progress is an exhibition in partnership with Lux Art Institute and runs through May 30 at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. To RSVP a time to experience the exhibition, visit: https://www.sandiego-art.org/new-events/2021/4/23/measurements-of-progress

Thien Hoang Doan, 30 years, 1 second, 2020, single-channel video