Fine Arts

Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design is excited to host Malerie Marder on Tuesday, February 21! Join us in-person from 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Forum for this special artist lecture and Q&A session.

The department of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design is excited to host Miljohn Ruperto on Tuesday, February 7! Join us in-person from 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Forum for this special artist lecture and Q&A session.

The Anthropocene enjoins immediate action to address the increasingly viable prospects of an end to life on the planet. However, agency is popularly framed as a force domiciled within individuals and human collectives—within traditional, liberal notions of the isolated self. When we shift our gaze from looking at things so squarely, so straightforwardly, and begin to deploy peri-feral/autistic visions of migrant bodies and porous boundaries, then agency becomes less individuated and more ecological and territorial.

Please join Fine Arts at the Bolsky Gallery for the opening of Smog Check, an exhibition of senior artworks about commuting on Tuesday October 11 at 6:00 p.m.  The group show will be on display through October 22. We're excited to see you there!

The MFA Fine Arts program Otis College of Art and Design is thrilled to announce The First Turn, the first-year mid-residency show. This annual exhibition showcases and introduces the work of our first-year graduate students to the Otis Community and the greater Los Angeles area and beyond. This collection of work made during the Fall semester of 2021, spans a range of media and concerns, and is a testament to the vibrant art-making cohort making their debuts. Please join us in the celebration of their efforts.

The Fine Arts Department presents the Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Naotaka Hiro. 

Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972 in Osaka, Japan) received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, and BFA from UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. His multimedia practice, spanning painting, sculpture, and video, confronts the body’s capabilities and unknowable spaces. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

The BFA Fine Arts Department presents the Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Dawn Kim.

Dawn Kim (b. 1989) received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT and her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her work examines (mis)recorded histories to better understand the complexities of the everyday. Taking on forms of video, artist’s books, and performance lectures, her work attempts to make visible the systems that have been hidden, forgotten, or overlooked.

The Otis Community and the public are invited to attend the opening reception for the BFA Fine Arts Seniors' exhibition, Nothing to Write Home About, on Tuesday, October 19th from 5:00–7:00 p.m. PT in the Bolsky Gallery, located in the Bronya and Andy Galef Building on the Otis College Goldsmith campus.

Participating artists include:
Indigo Britton
Vivian Chuang 
Jarret Hood 
Cassie Miller 
Maia Ramirez-Beaver 
Michael Jay Wolf 

The Otis College of Art and Design Fine Arts Department invites you to attend a virtual conversation between artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken and Fine Arts Chair Meg Cranston.

Presented as part of the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series.

Zoom webinar link to attend: https://otis.zoom.us/j/92799688871

Please join us to see the 2021 Senior Exhibitions, share the premier of the Fine Arts class of 2021 website  fineassfineart.com and 2021 exhibition catalog, see our billboards in Los Angeles and join in our student awards!

Zoom link to attend: https://otis.zoom.us/my/megcranston