Recent News
Juried Student Show
Apr 11, 2019
Experience the very best of the Art and Design Department, featuring juried selections from the concentrations of Studio Art, Photography and Video, and Graphic Design.
Draw-a-thon 2019
Feb 26, 2019
Experience a drawing ARTravaganza at Draw-a-thon 2019!
Harrell Fletcher - Canceled
Feb 22, 2019
The Feb. 22-March 15 show with Harrell Fletcher has been canceled. The good news is that we are instead having a number of smaller, more intimate events in the gallery that encourage and welcome community participation!
Victoria Fu
Jan 17, 2019
Jan. 17-Feb. 8
The video art and photography of Victoria Fu examines and plays with artistic conventions and the dispersal of technical images in the contemporary era.
Mark Tribe
Nov 15, 2018
Nov. 15- Dec. 7
Wilderness is vanishing before our eyes. New Nature is an ongoing project that combines the visual language of landscape photography and the formal legacy of structural film in the creation of archival audiovisual recordings of wild landscapes.
Faculty Research Triennial
Oct 4, 2018
Oct. 4-26
The Faculty Triennial showcases the high caliber of work that can be achieved with time and practice as our Art and Design faculty exhibit the work they create outside the classroom as professional artists.
2018 BFA Exhibition
Jun 1, 2018
June 1 - June 16
Opening Reception
4-6 p.m. Friday, June 1
Dexter Rm.149
Free and open to the public
The time has come! Cal Poly University Art Gallery presents this year’s BFA Exhibition titled, This Must Be The Place, featuring multi-disciplinary works by graduating Art and Design students. Bring your friends and family and join us in celebrating these students and all their hard work! Light refreshments will be provided.
2018 Juried Student Show
Apr 12, 2018
April 12 - May 11
Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery presents the “2018 Juried Student Exhibition,” a vetted showcase of artwork made in the Art and Design Department, to run April 12 through May 11. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the gallery, located on the ground floor of the Dexter Building (No. 34). The exhibit was juried by painter and sculptor Peter Charles, a San Luis Obispo resident who has exhibited work in many museums and galleries throughout the U.S.
Amy Touchette
Feb 22, 2018
Feb. 22 - March 16, 2018
Opening Talk
4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22
Dexter Rm.149 with reception to follow
A solo exhibition of Amy Touchette’s three bodies of work focusing on teens, entitled The Young Series, will be on view at the University Art Gallery.
Dirty Canteen
Jan 16, 2018
Jan. 16 - Feb. 9, 2018
"Taking Place" by Dirty Canteen Opening Talk
5 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 16
Dexter, Rm.149 with reception to follow
A collective of veteran artists, the group Dirty Canteen seeks to educate themselves and others on what exactly is "taking place" in our country, our military, and the world.