Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Presented in collaboration with the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, join us for the 2026 Russell Lecture, which features Los Angeles-based artist Joey Terrill.

UCSD students and faculty: Contact nlesley@ucsd.edu from your @ucsd.edu email to get the code for free tickets. UC San Diego ID is required for free entry.

5PM: Doors Open and Reception in Berglund Lobby 

5:30PM: Introduction by Alexandro Segade (Associate Professor, UCSD) 

5:40PM: Russell Lecture with Joey Terrill in Jacobs Hall 

Joey Terrill

Since the 1970s, Joey Terrill a Los Angeles based Chicano artist has explored the intersection of his Latino and gay male identities in his art. A native Angeleno, he studied at Immaculate Heart Collage and California State University, Los Angeles. Living with HIV for 45 years, his art career has parallelled and documented his four decades as an AIDS activist. 

His work was featured two years ago in “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” at Hammer Museum in LA as well as “Copy Machine Manifestos” at the Brooklyn Museum followed by a solo show in January 2024, “Still Here” at the Marc Selwyn Gallery in LA. His work can be found in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, and the Whitney Museum, in NY, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, in California at the Oakland Museum of California Art, SFMOMA, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, MOCA in LA and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in La Jolla 

https://joeyterrillart.com/ 

Alexandro Segade

Alexandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator whose work spans performance, video, and drawing. Much of his practice involves investigating speculative group identities and the intersection of art, popular culture, and politics. Segade is well known for his long-term collaboration with My Barbarian, founded in 2000 with Malik Gaines and Jade Gordon, this performance collective uses theatricality and humor to critique social and historical situations. Their 20-year survey was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2021) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022). 

My Barbarian’ recent exhibition at Lubov Gallery, NYC, titled Cat Suit, featured a cat-themed Tarot deck designed by Segade. Major works by Segade include Star Choir (2023/2024): a science-fiction opera co-written with Malik Gaines, chronicling a starship crew seeking refuge on a hostile planet and was performed at the historic Mount Wilson Observatory; The Context (2020): A graphic novel written and drawn by Segade, published by Primary Information that reimagines superhero tropes as a "queer parable of belonging," utilizing characters named after concepts in critical theory; and Anoche (2025): a short film shot in Havana, Cuba, in the neighborhood where his grandfather, Oscar Segade, was born, which premiered at the 15th Havana Biennial. His writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Yale Theater Journal, and various catalogs, often focusing on subjects like comics, science fiction, and Latinx representation. Segade is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He earned a BA in English and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art, both from UCLA, where he studied under artists Mary Kelly and Andrea Fraser. He was born in San Diego. 

http://www.alexandrosegade.net 

The Russell Foundation was established in the will of Betty Russell, one of MCASD's founding docents and a long-time supporter of UC San Diego. She specified that funds from the foundation should help "foster the appreciation and study of the modern visual arts and creativity of young artists" through support for the Museum and the University. Past Russell Lecture speakers  have included Math Bass (2025), Elliott Hundley (2024) Shizu Saldamando (2023), June Edmonds (2021), Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2020), Rodney McMillian (2019), Zackary Drucker (2018), Miguel Calderón (2017), Andrea Bowers (2016), Judith Barry (2015), Tacita Dean (2014), Byron Kim (2013), Tania Bruguera (2012), and Isaac Julien (2011).