“Proxy, Chimera, Oracle,” a postgraduate group exhibition, at CalArts at The Reef. Photo courtesy of CalArts. CalArts Post Grad Exhibition at The Reef. On Oct. 11, 2025, the CalArts MFA Class of 2025 opens Proxy, Chimera, Oracle at CalArts at The Reef, the Institute’s new cultural platform and venue in Downtown Los Angeles. Curated by critic, curator, and educator Nora N. Khan, the annual postgraduate group exhibition features work by 34 artists, all recent graduates of the CalArts School of Art’s MFA programs in Art, Photography and Media, and Art and Technology. Proxy, Chimera, Oracle includes sculptures, films, paintings, and a range of hybrid, mixed media works, many of which take up afterimages as material. A bright light, prolonged exposure—an afterimage is the lingering visual that follows overstimulation of the eye. A sensation remains even after the source is gone: the memory of a structure, a presence, taking form as imprints, traces, shadows, and blur. The exhibition presents aesthetic and imaginal strategies for living in the wake, after homes, communal spaces, safe havens, and any semblance of certainty have been evacuated. “The 34 artists in Proxy, Chimera, Oracle understand that the wake is best approached obliquely—through scores, assemblage, and rituals. Art seeds at the edges, an attempt to control the fallout of the wake,” Khan explains in her curatorial statement. “Each work functions as both diagnostic tool and survival manual, revealing how we live in multiple wakes simultaneously: in the aftermath of empire, in structures that persist through perceptual shifts, in the continued catastrophe of the present. They respond to psychic debts induced by loss, theft, and enclosure with imaginal strategies towards alternative exits.” Participating artists include: Adriana DiNapoli, AJaeCea Carlie x Luisa Pinzon, Alexandra Pasquale, Anatola Araba, Catherine Wang, Chinning Liu, Dar San Agustin, Erika Keck, Hengyu Wang, Ione Wan