USC Roski MA Curatorial Cohort Presents PEEP/SHOW
USC Roski MA Curatorial Cohort Presents PEEP/SHOW
An exhibition exploring voyeurism, representation, and self-imaging in the digital age
Los Angeles, CA — October 30, 2025 — USC Roski’s MA Cohort in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere presents PEEP/SHOW, an exhibition that draws on the historical and cultural resonance of the peep show box to investigate what compels us—again and again—to the acts of looking and imaging.
The exhibition brings together works that examine voyeurism, representation, surveillance technologies, and the mechanics of spectatorship. While eclectic in subject and material, these works collectively turn our gaze back onto the apparatus itself—how it shapes the images we consume, the selves we perform, and the ways those performances become bound to our sense of identity.
In doing so, PEEP/SHOW complicates traditional binaries—observer and subject, self and other, performer and viewer—and disrupts the moralized frameworks that often govern discussions of voyeurism. By foregrounding intention on both sides of the viewing relationship, the exhibition seeks to open a more expansive and agential conversation around the pleasures and perils of self-imaging in an era of political and conceptual instability.
Featured Artists
Tsohil Bhatia • Antonia Crane • Mirza Cizmic • Sebastián Hernández • Kayla Tange • Cammie Toloui • Molly Vaughn • among others
MA 2026 Curatorial Team
Sam Fitz • Luka Fisher • Alex Kawawaki • Nicole Sue Kim • Ezequiel Olvera • Joshua J. Ramirez
Supervised by Jenny Lin, PhD
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Exhibition On View
October 31 – November 26, 2025
Special Event
Screening & Discussion with Lizzie Borden
Tuesday, November 4, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tuesday & Saturday: by appointment
Location
Roski Graduate Building (Los Angeles Arts District)
1262 Palmetto Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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