Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Program attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, working alongside an exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research institution in New York City, the center of the art world.
Contemporary art has become increasingly interdisciplinary. To that end, the Visual Arts Program offers an MFA degree in Visual Arts rather than in one specific medium. The two-year studio program, taught by internationally celebrated artists, allows students to pursue digital media, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance and video art.
Highlights for the 2012
Summer Session:
New! Advanced Painting
Intensive: Paris
New! Advanced Printmaking
Intensive: New York
Advanced Painting
Intensive: New York
Visual Arts Program
310 Dodge Hall
Mail Code 1806
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-4065
visualarts@columbia.edu
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19-Jul-2011
Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program, in association with the Fisher Landau Center for Art, presented the 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, encompassing work by the 27 artists who graduated from the program this past May.
The show was curated by Larissa Harris.
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23-May-2012
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.
14-May-2012
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.
01-May-2012
Several Columbia School of the Arts Visual Arts Program faculty, students and alumni will show at the 2012 Frieze Art Fair in New York.
13-Apr-2012
Six members of the Columbia University School of the Arts community were among the winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012.
20-Mar-2012
The American Academy of Arts and Letters accounced Visual Arts Faculty Kara Walker as a newly elected member for 2012. Members of the Academy are chosen for life and have included leading figures in American arts, literature and music. They are organized into committees that award annual prizes to help up-and-coming artists.
07-Mar-2012
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.
24-Feb-2012
Sarah Sze, Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts, has been chosen to represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia in 2013. Her work will be presented by Holly Block and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the 55th International Art Exhibition.
20-Feb-2012
Visual Arts Alumna Iman Issa ('07 SOA) Exhibits at New Museum 2012 Triennial
Iman Issa is one of the featured thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives exhibiting at The 2012 New Museum Triennial. Totaling over fifty participants, these artists have been born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.
07-Feb-2012
Visual Arts alumni are featured at the Queens Museum of Arts biennial titled, Queens International 2012 : Three Points Make a Triangle
Jesse A. Greenberg ('11 SOA) Eric Palgon ('09 SOA) and William Santen ('11 SOA) exhibit work at this international showcase of artists living or working in the borough of Queens.
01-Feb-2012
The Cartographer's Conundrum by Faculty Sanford Biggers at MASS MoCA
23-Jan-2012
A group show of Columbia University Student's work at Yale's Green Gallery.
Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven
January 15th — February 5th, 2012
01-Dec-2011
From December 1 through 4, Miami Beach, Florida, will host art shows Art Basel, NADA, PULSE Miami showcasing renowned artists and galleries from around the world. With public art projects, video installations and performance art.
Several School of the Arts Faculty and Alumni are featured this year. Here are some highlights.
03-Nov-2011
Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni featured in the latest issue of Art in America (November 2011).
26-Oct-2011
As part of the Guggenheim's ongoing Intervals series, designed to reflect the spirit of today's most innovative practices, New York-based artist Nicola López will create the site-specific work Landscape X, a sculptural collage environment in the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda.
30-Sep-2011
Visual Arts Professor Sanford Biggers Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum from September 23 to January 8, 2012
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.