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This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Visual Arts Sable Elyse Smith about the inherent information in materials, time, and the myth of the 'art world.'
The retrospective exhibit The House That Jack Built at Pirelli HangarBicocca—a former Pirelli tire plant turned contemporary art institution in Milan—aims to introduce the public to thirty years of Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija's research into spatial and architectural practices.
This summer, Visual Arts' Director of Graduate Studies, Concentration Head of Painting, and Assistant Professor David Antonio Cruz reenvisions interiors across two boroughs: at PES Futures—a satellite initiative of the Project for Empty Space in Manhattan's historic Chinatown—and the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the Bronx.
Cautionary Tales: A Symphony of Anger/Kòlè, the debut New York solo exhibition by Laurena Finéus '24, which opened last month at Fridman Gallery, considers anger as a form of knowing. On view now through June 19, 2026.
Chair of the Visual Arts program, Director of the Sound Art program, and Associate Professor of Professional Practice Miya Masaoka released a double CD, Two Days in Dreamland, last month with Pauline Oliveros and Issui Minegishi on Important Records.
Laurie Anderson '72 (BC '69) and Kambui Olujimi '13 are among the 110 artists invited to participate in the Venice Biennale's 61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys, presenting works alongside the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Pauline Oliveros.
Lizzie Zelter '22 has long been interested in interiors—the built environments we encounter in domestic, commercial, and bureaucratic settings—and how they invite intervention.
This past month, two floors of the Lenfest Center for the Arts have been bustling with artists, visitors, and performers. Curated by Amal Issa, the Sound Art + Visual Arts Class of 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition comes to a close on Saturday, May 24, 2026.
Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Read more from Columbia Magazine.
Sophie Kovel '22 is featured in the Center for Curatorial Studies exhibition at Bard College's Hessel Museum of Art.
On April 14, 2026, the Board of the Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 101st Class of Fellows. Among the 223 trailblazing artists, scientists, and scholars across 55 fields are two Visual Arts alums: artist, filmmaker, and writer-director Allison Janae Hamilton '17 and artist and filmmaker Tenzin Phuntsog '06.
Associate Professor of Visual Arts Naeem Mohaiemen's critically acclaimed three-channel video installation, Through a Mirror, Darkly, is making its US debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
