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Sat, Aug 1 | Opening Reception
Opening Reception
August 1, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Presented in collaboration with
Presented as part of FotoSoCal by CuratorLove, a constellation of exhibitions bringing together more than 20 college galleries and affiliated spaces across the region.
FuturoGenerational is a Southern California regional focus featuring lens-based student work from colleges and universities affiliated with the FotoSocal constellation of exhibitions. Curated through an open call, it is an accompaniment to Amina Cruz’s Blessings from the Three: Tortilleras, Jotos, and Potaxies.
Featuring a calavera Lady Liberty, a star-shaped time machine, and a cyanotype huipil, which anchor the gallery, the space is transmuted into a portal to interconnectedness where landscapes, homelands, venues, and generations meet. Working in photography, installation, and expanded lens-based practices, the artists examine how image-making can become a site where inherited histories and unwritten futures converge.
Image: Two Spirited, 2024. Lei Rosado. Courtesy of the artist.
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Cal State LA is situated on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Tongva people. This forms the context for FuturoGenerational and serves as a reminder of why we continue to steward these places for our ancestors. Student artists face a ruptured world, but repair requires curiosity, tenderness, and the ability to stand in your own power. This exhibition recognizes the power of higher education to be a place of betterment and empowerment. The work depicts multiple generations of So-Cal residents in a state of becoming and, in doing so, affirms the role that artists play in creating a better world.
This exhibition is part of FotoSoCal by CuratorLove
FotoSocal is a constellation of exhibitions that brings together over 20 community college galleries and affiliated spaces across Southern California, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Orange County, featuring the work of emerging Latine/x photographers and lens-based art.
Steve Galindo | Curator
Steve Galindo, aka THESTYLEGUYDE, is an emerging, multi-media Los Angeles-based artist and curator. Galindo has a background in entertainment, fashion, and art; they have spent the last decade in entertainment and fine art learning from prominent artists, community, and foremost thought leaders, formulating an artistic philosophy steeped in a desire to express unifying truths about the human experience.
THESTYLEGUYDE stands for “Uniting Communities through the Language of Art in hopes of driving conversation of change for marginal communities, including and not limited to BIPOC and LGBTQA+ in the United States. “My goal in my community-building work is to build out a paradoxical bridge of conversations that intersect our communities and respective lives.” Their exhibitions have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Aspen Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and in local and national television news stories.
Melia Person | Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern
Melia Person is the Luckman Fine Arts Complex’s 2026 Getty Marrow Undergraduate Curatorial Intern. She is a senior at Cal State LA and is a candidate for a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Art. She previously received an Associate of Arts degree from Santa Monica College, where she co-curated Are You Seen? at the Barrett Art Gallery in 2024. She was a Program Intern with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where she helped to produce the annual Folklife Festival in Washington DC. Her curatorial philosophy is “for us, by us,” and it is her goal to make the art world more accessible and inclusive.
About the Artists
Uyioghosa Aibangbee
Alec Alejo
Brandon Alvarez Del Amo
Alexis Bautista
CJ Calica
Alondra Costilla
Michelle Espino
Luke Godinez
Luis Hernandez
Kristi Lomax
Matt Mageno
Karen Mata
Cris Mendoza
Allyson Niebla
Josselyn Ocampo
Lei Rosado
Yajaira Sequeida Lemus
Jacqueline Zurita
Student Showcase featuring artists: Uyioghosa Aibangbee, Alec Alejo, Brandon Alvarez Del Amo, Alexis Bautista, CJ Calica, Alondra Costilla, Michelle Espino, Luke Godinez, Luis Hernandez, Kristi Lomax, Matt Mageno, Karen Mata,Cris Mendoza, Allyson Niebla, Josselyn Ocampo, Lei Rosado, Yajaira Sequeida Lemus, and Jacqueline Zurita.
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- Past Events:
Sat, Nov 1 | Opening Reception
Saturday, November 1, 2025, 2–5 PM
Light refreshments will be provided.
Sat, Dec 6 | Archives Conversation
Saturday, December 6, 2025
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Moderated by archivist and public historian Moriah Ulinskas, this conversation will address how artists and local organizations work with historical and community archives.
Speakers include:
Lylliam Posadas, co-founder and co-director of Your Neighborhood Museum; Keko Jackson, artist and archivist, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive; Leah King, artist; Camille Wong, artist.
The program concludes with a live music performance by Leah King at 4:00 p.m.
About the Panelists
Keko Jackson
Keko Jackson is an artist and archivist living in Los Angeles. His work extends across photography, curation, writing and publications that take a discursive approach to history and its relationship to images.
Leah King
Leah King is a multimedia artist working in collage, sound, film, and performance. Her intricately layered visual and sonic works explore race, gender, and power through a futurist lens. Centering archives as portals for future-building, King creates multisensory installations rooted in ancestral storytelling and community repair. As a vocalist and composer, she creates soundscapes influenced by house, gospel, and experimental jazz. King’s work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Charlie James Gallery, and supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Berlin Music Board, and many others. She holds an MFA from USC Roski School of Art and Design, where she researched house music and Black futurity, and a BA from Barnard College/Columbia University in Black diasporic music and dance.
Lylliam Posadas
Lylliam Posadas is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Your Neighborhood Museum and the Colonial Pathways Repatriation Manager at the Museum of Us. Lylliam has over 15 years of experience in repatriation and focuses on collaborative program development, community-led research practices, and transformative justice practices in museums. Lylliam has field experience in Ghana, Peru, Louisiana, and California, as well as experience facilitating repatriation, building repatriation programs, and guiding research protocols at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Museum of Us. Lylliam received an M.Sc. in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials from University College London and Bachelor degrees in Anthropology and Psychology from UCLA.
Moriah Ulinskas
Moriah Ulinskas is a community archivist and public historian whose research examines histories of dispossession, focusing on how marginalized communities organized to resist displacement and how that history of resistance lies latent in archival collections today. Her work investigates both the physical displacement of minority communities and their erasure from historical memory, examining how these groups preserved their stories despite systematic exclusion from official narratives. She is a founding member of the Community Archiving Workshop (CAW), a collective of audiovisual archivists who facilitate audiovisual preservation in community-held collections. Since 2011, CAW has collaborated with 65 organizations across four continents to conduct archival preservation workshops and kickstart community archives.
Camille Wong
Camille Wong (they/she) is a research-based artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. They approach the gaze of ethnography by authoring the personal into the world through experimental documentary. Their recent work examines media and rhetoric during the Cold War, exploring how these broader political systems shaped global ideologies and immigration patterns. Their work has been shown at the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has exhibited their work throughout Los Angeles including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), and Monte Vista Projects. They received their MFA in Media Art at UCLA and BAs in Art and Environmental Studies from UCSB.
Sat, Jan 17 | Artist & Curator Walkthrough
Saturday, January 17, 2026
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Gain deeper insights into the exhibition through artist & curator walkthroughs, offered in 30-minute blocks.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Sat, Feb 21 | Performance Lectures
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 2–5 PM
Experience the work by the fifteen artists in the exhibition, and witness performance lectures by Artemisa Clark and Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai. Light refreshments will be provided. This is the last event in conjunction with the exhibition.
Exhibition Hours
Tuesday through Friday
12:00 p.m. – 5:00 PM, or by appointment
During stage presentations
Open 1 hour prior to start time
Parking
Parking is available on the top deck of Structure C, located directly in front of The Luckman.
Daily guest permits can be purchased at physical pay stations located in pay lots and through the PayByPhone App. These permits are virtual and require vehicle plate information.
If using PayByPhone, the location number for Structure C, Top level, is 4129.