NEWS
Several School of the Arts alumni and faculty will feature in this year’s Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing, which opens on March 20, 2024.
Visual Arts alumna Jacqueline Silberbush '19 has published a book of photos, What Shod I be!!!!? with Dashwood Books. The book, which is an extension of her ongoing photographic series by the same title, follows the lived experiences of a young woman’s life from the moment of her birth to that of her child’s.
On March 1 and 2, 2024, Adjunct Associate Professor of Visual Arts Pamela Sneed will direct and star in A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City.
Sound Art alum Char Jeré '23 has unveiled their debut New York City solo exhibition at Artists Space, Zoo or an Orchestra, an exploration of the nonlinear temporality within the African diaspora through various art forms.
School of the Arts Professor David Antonio Cruz has recently been teaching and exhibiting his work in multiple museum exhibitions.
Visual Arts students Laurena Finéus and Annika Tucksmith, together with alum Kelsey Shwetz ’22, have been named Autumn 2023 recipients of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.
On November 12, 2023 during the Visual Arts and Sound Art Class of 2024 Open Studios, 30 student artists welcomed members of the public to engage with their work and learn more about their materials, techniques, and influences.
The power of ancestral lineage—the beauty and awe of drawing connections with a wide span of geographies—animates the works of Cuban-born artist and 2023 MacArthur Fellow María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who discussed her four decades of artwork on November 16, 2023 during a dynamic lecture held at Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Throughout the month of December and until January 20, 2024, two bronze sculptures and several oil paintings by Visual Arts alumnus Linus Borgo ’22 are on view in a solo exhibition at the esteemed Yossi Milo gallery in Chelsea.
Nude painting flourished among Arab artists in the 20th century during a period of cultural renaissance. Now these rarely seen works are on view at the Wallach Art Gallery.
Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most prestigious art shows in the world, is hosting a notable group of alumni from Columbia University School of the Arts this year.
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts has commissioned Visual Arts alumnus Hugh Hayden ’18 to create Huff and a Puff, an outdoor sculpture installation which will be on view until November 1, 2033.
