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October 1, 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Salon of Currents is a day-long gathering convened and directed by FAST that brings together oceanographers, marine biologists, architects, designers, artists, historians, philosophers, and voices from MIT and beyond to dissect the planet’s major ocean currents as forces shaping landscapes, climates, cities, cultures, ecosystems and lives.

Reception: October 1, 11:00am
October 1 - October 31, 2026
College of Creative Studies Art Gallery, UC Santa Barbara
The exhibition brings together eight artists exploring the intersections of personal identity, symbolism, and the celestial. The show pairs each artist's astrological birth chart with their artwork instead of a traditional statement or bio, inviting viewers to question the systems of meaning that shape how we understand ourselves and each other through the practice of astrology.

Reception: October 2, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
October 2 - December 20, 2026
Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Compressed Tenses explores an ancillary and ongoing practice of physical collage in Sepuya’s oeuvre. Starting with a Rauschenberg Residency in 2018, Sepuya deploys constructs previously employed in his studio practice, exploring the history of the homoerotic photograph, complicated by current conversations around queerness and Blackness.

October 3, 11:00 a.m.
Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Join Murals of La Jolla and Quint Gallery for a special conversation exploring abstraction, public art, and the expanded field of painting. Artists Heather Gwen Martin, Kim MacConnel, and Monique van Genderen will discuss their work and practices in a conversation moderated by contemporary art historian and curator Jordan Karney Chaim, PhD.

October 8, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Clark Cabaret at the Diversionary Theater, San Diego, CA
Acclaimed performance and cabaret artist Malik Gaines returns to the Clark Cabaret & Bar for an unforgettable evening of music. Accompanying himself on the piano, Malik will deliver a captivating lineup of folk music, powerful protest songs, and timeless spirituals. Don’t miss these highly sophisticated, unique interpretations of classic songs, all filtered through his signature style.

Reception: October 8, 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
October 8, 2026 - March 18, 2027
Unscripted Spaces, La Jolla, CA
Marisa DeLuca in Presence & Place, exploring how contemporary art interacts with architecture, light, scale, and material inside fully designed luxury showroom environments rather than the traditional white cube gallery. Curated by Erin Page of Page Art Projects, this exhibition puts fine art in conversation with setting as part of San Diego Art Directory's Activated Spaces initiative.

Reception: October 10, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
October 10 - November 7, 2026
Art Produce, San Diego, CA
Actual Size takes the human scale as a point of departure in a moment when so many forces shaping our lives feel increasingly large, distant, and beyond our control. The exhibition considers the spaces between those larger forces and the scale at which we live. What might it mean to focus on what we can shape, experience, and understand at a human scale?

Reception: October 10, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
July 18, 2026 - March 14, 2027
Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
The exhibition brings together three chapters of Lim’s artistic practice. The exhibition includes Proustian Bedroom, That Sense of Complexity…, and a new site-specific installation. Lim maps the shifting boundaries of the recollected and the imagined through multi-sensory installations composed of sculptural, painterly, and audio-visual media fragments.

Hantje Cantz
Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration collects, for the first time, their five joint projects produced between 2023–2025, which won them the 2025 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year Award. An interview with the artists and four critical essays provide insight on a hybrid practice where technology functions as an evolving ecology.

Social Visualities list at Palgrave Macmillan (Fall, 2026)
Welchman connects Cavallo’s research with his pioneering anthology, The Aesthetics of Risk (JRP|Ringier, 2008), discussing the urgencies of how the future of risk and its management can be harnessed to, or at least comprehended by, modes of accommodation and social amelioration.

September 23 - October 31, 20026
Gazelli Art House, New York, NY
Borrowing a familiar phrase associated with hospitality and gathering, Put the Kettle On reflects the gallery’s conviction that meaningful encounters often begin around a shared table. The exhibition welcomes New York audiences with an invitation to exchange ideas, discover new perspectives and forge connections across cultures, artistic practices and generations. 

September 26 - November 22, 2026
Tim Moore Gallery, Rome, Italy
Named after the appetizer course in Italian cuisine, this group show does not have a unifying theme, but rather gives a ‘taste’ of what to expect from the gallery’s future programming: eschewing hype for new, substantive dialogues and a fresh, often queer international perspective in the Eternal City.

September 19, 2026 - August 15, 2027
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
As technological imaginaries aimed at surpassing the limitations of human beings intersect with contemporary art's pursuit of abstraction beyond the object, the works selected from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection converge within a field of tension between the uncanny and transcendence, ecstasy and experience, image and trace, absence and presence.

July 1 - October 4, 2026
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Paul Mpagi Sepuya's first major solo exhibition in Germany offers insight into a body of work that fundamentally questions and expands the photographic portrait. Featuring more than 90 works spanning roughly two decades, the exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Sepuya’s artistic practice.

July 3 - October 5, 2026
ICA Miami, Miami, FL and online
The installation features works that deliberately misuse technology to explore the knowledge it holds. Through acts of repair, error, repurposing, and deliberate misapplication, they ask how technology might become strange again—and therefore newly thinkable.

August 1 – October 9, 2026
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Chosen by internationally acclaimed photographer and artist [Professor] Paul Mpagi Sepuya, the exhibition features 48 works by artists from across the San Diego–Tijuana region. The exhibition brings together both emerging and established artists working across a range of media, perspectives, and approaches.

September 12 - October 10, 2026
Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
A concentrated study around the 17th-century era of Dutch flower paintings, Heavy Petal includes a mix of small and large-scale paintings on panel, canvas, and paper, each providing unique surfaces for casein paint to reveal its particular depth of color and vibrance. This selection of works, which the artist has been primarily focused on for the past year, are a characteristic playful but often faithful interpretation of the works of Dutch painters like Ruysch, Seghers, Beert and others.

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