Visual Arts

Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program, in association with the Fisher Landau Center for Art, presented the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition, encompassing work by the 26 artists who graduated from the program this past May.

The show was curated by Regine Basha.

Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program, in association with the Fisher Landau Center for Art, presented the 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition, encompassing work by the 26 artists who graduated from the program this past May.

The show was curated by Fionn Meade.

We are all saddened by the loss of our dear friend LeRoy Neiman. Here are my remarks from Commencement in May of 2010 when we named him Honorary Professor of the Arts.

—Carol Becker, Dean of the School of the Arts

Summer 2012 Printmaking & Painting Intensives
Selections from the Summer 2012 Advanced Painting and Printmaking Intensives

The Advanced Painting and Printmaking Intensives are concurrent six-week programs held by Columbia University’s School of the Arts, featuring individual instruction in technique, individual and group critiques, field trips to professional studios and exhibition spaces throughout New York, lectures and discussions with established New York artists, and two final exhibitions in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery.

Art21, the non-profit producer of the Peabody Award-winning series Art in the Twenty-First Century, announced the addition of eight new featured artists in New York Close Up, the Webby Award-nominated online documentary series devoted to showcasing artists in the first decade of their professional career, while living and working in New York City.

Afro Punk Pictures presents The Triptych, a short documentary film series that highlights the work of Faculty Sanford Biggers, along with fellow artists Wangechi Mutu, and Barron Claiborne. Live music and Q&A with the artists will follow the screening.  The screening will be held at Brooklyn Museum, Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7 p.m.

 

Several Columbia School of the Arts Visual Arts Program faculty, students and alumni will show at the 2012 Frieze Art Fair in New York.

Two members of the Visual Arts faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts—Kara Walker and Kiki Smith—have been named 2012 Fellows by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Smith and Walker are among the 220 artists, scholars, scientists and writers elected to the 2012 Class by the prestigious honor society.

Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce that alumnus Gilad Ratman (’09) has been chosen to represent Israel at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Ratman, who lives and works in New York and Tel Aviv, is the youngest of the artists selected to represent Israel at this prestigious exhibition.

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