NEWS
Visual Arts alum Heidi Howard '14 will join interactive sound art pioneer Liz Phillips for Live Processing Paint and Sound, a live performance at Roulette on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 8 pm.
On September 26, 2026, the Jessica Ann Peavy Gallery welcomed Visual Arts alum Aristotle Forrester '24 as a newly represented artist with a celebration to mark the opening of his first solo exhibition, Blood and Water. Works featured in the exhibition—on view until November 7, 2026—are poignant, bold, colorful, and richly layered in both medium and meaning.
Visual Arts students Cherina Cheng and Natalie Jacobs were recently awarded summer 2026 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants.
In her latest solo exhibition From Here at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia MOCA), Visual Arts Alum Vivian Chiu '19 asks us to consider the vessel—an object designed both to contain and to transport.
In August The National Gallery of Art announced the acquisition of notable historical and contemporary works including Puerto Rican Pieta II (2006), a painting by Director of Graduate Studies, Concentration Head of Painting, and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts David Antonio Cruz.
Ben Shirken, second year Sound Art student, has been made a finalist in the 2026 Lumen Prize, a $30,000 award that "exists to support artists exploring the relationship between art and technology in all its forms."
Anna Ting Möller '23 was awarded a 2026 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art for her performance piece Dissolve and Coagulate—A Visual Inquiry into Abjection. Since 1985, the Franklin Furnace FUND has awarded grants to early-career artists to prepare for major performance art works in New York. Franklin Furnace celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, along with the 41st anniversary of its FUND for Performance Art.
Contemporary Hominin, a solo exhibition by Visual Arts alum Wenfei Quan '25, is on view September 11–October 10, 2026 at TaThaTa Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 is featured in a new exhibition, Never The Same River, at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City.
Commissioned by the High Line and the CHANEL Culture Fund, Prior Occupants by Visual Arts alum Alison Nguyen '23 will premiere September 8, 2026, as the fifth High Line Originals film and the second High Line Originals co-commissioned with the CHANEL Culture Fund.
The public art installation by Visual Arts alum Daniel Rothbart '90, Serpentine Sibyls, is distinct from other outdoor works: it floats freely in the pond adjacent to the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art and in reflecting pools that flank the Glass House at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden on Staten Island.
Alex Strada '16 is the inaugural Public Artist in Residence with the NYC Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs with her work, Public Address.
