UCSB Arts & Lectures presents An Evening with Miranda July 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 at UCSB Campbell Hall.

The audience is invited to join July, a celebrated author, filmmaker and performance artist, for a conversation spanning her work across multiple disciplines and media.

Known for her blend of vulnerability, humor and imagination, July arrives on the heels of widespread acclaim for her 2024 novel “All Fours,” an exploration of desire, identity and reinvention.

July will revisit highlights from her groundbreaking films, installations and performances.

July’s videos, performances and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and in two Whitney Biennials.

Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s and The New Yorker with her collection of stories “No One Belongs Here More Than You” (2007), winning the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

She wrote a collection of essays and photographs titled “It Chooses You” ( 2011). Her novel, “The First Bad Man,” became an immediate bestseller and was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015.

July’s book “Miranda July” (2020), is a complete retrospective of all her work to date and narrated by more than 80 friends and collaborators.

July wrote, directed and starred in “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Caméra d’or.

In 2011, she wrote, directed and starred in “The Future,” another film that premiered at Sundance.

In 2000, July created the seminal participatory website “Learning to Love You More” with artist Harrell Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel); the work is now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

She designed Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden, for the 2009 Venice Biennale. It was later presented in Union Square in New York and by MOCA in Los Angeles.

Her email-based artwork, “We Think Alone” (commissioned by Magasin 3, Stockholm), launched in July 2013 with nearly 100,000 subscribers and continued through November 2013.

In 2025, July was made a Guggenheim Fellow. She is also one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025. July lives in Los Angeles.

Tickets to see July are $28-$43, general public; $10 UCSB students with current student ID.

For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535, or buy online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.