NEWS
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.
This summer, Yuri Yuan '21 brings Wanderlust to Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, in her debut solo exhibition in Europe. Gesturing toward geographic and emotional distance, Yuan portrays landscapes and domestic scenes in her signature flattened style. A woman, clad in a gray trenchcoat and cap, walks through a cemetery; a bluejay sips from a puddle; a hand pulls back a curtain, picks up a paintbrush. Wanderlust emphasizes passage over arrival, witness over judgement.
How is the internet like water? Yehwan Song '26 addresses this question in her solo exhibition—an installation of her kinetic sculpture The Other Internet—on view this summer at Subtitled NYC, an artist-run project space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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.'
