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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

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts David Antonio CruzEsteban Cabeza de Baca '14, and José Delgado Zúñiga '17 are among the fifty-eight artists gathered at Buffalo AKG Art Museum for Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, an exploration of contemporary Latinx painters.

At the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, across the walls, floor, and beyond the gallery, the Class of 2027 expressed themselves through image, text, sound, and performance.

Associate Professor of Visual Arts Sable Elyse Smith is the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, a biennial prize that supports an artist with a $200,000 award and a solo exhibition premiering at The Contemporary Austin and traveling to the FLAG Art Foundation in New York.

I Want to Know, I Need to Know, Eli Klein Gallery's first solo exhibition of work by interdisciplinary artist Andrius Alvarez-Backus '25, opened on Saturday, February 21, and will be on view through May 9, 2026.

Adjunct Associate Professor Pamela Sneed is exhibiting work alongside Carlos Martiel in Sacred and Profane at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. The exhibition opened on February 20 and will run through April 12, 2026.

The two renowned artists performed and then talked before a full house at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Visual Arts alum Alison Nguyen '23 has a solo exhibition, Perforation, Ellipse, at the downtown gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture. 

In the latest exhibition at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Reimagined Mysticism: To Shoe a Horse in Felt, new works by MFA students Timothy BairFrancisco Javier Ramirez, and Jeannie Rhyu share the gallery with editions produced at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies by renowned Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze, former Professor of Visual Arts Kiki Smith, and distinguished alum Ernesto Caivano '01.

Student Series

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Encounters

by Mădălina Telea Borteș

A series featuring Columbia visual, sound, and performance artists, discussing the art that compels them to see and create in new ways. 

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty

by Catherine Fisher

A series that features artists who use found materials, natural resources, and the landscape to construct work that addresses the harsh realities of our ecological age.