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Visual Arts alumna Aki Sasamoto ’07 has been honored with the prestigious 2023 Calder Prize, receiving a $50,000 cash award and the opportunity to have one of her artworks featured in a major public collection.

A jungle, at night. From a vantage point far back in the trees, we are watching a woman filming a music video for a romantic pop song with a weirdly catchy samba rhythm.

The artist, now in her late eighties, shares a few eye-catching works installed in the tristate area. Read more in Columbia Magazine.

Visual Arts Alumna Abby Robinson ’22 presented several works with Tilton Gallery at this year’s Independent Art Fair, hosted at Spring Studios in the Tribeca art district from May 11 to 14, 2023. 

This week, we caught up with Visual Arts alumna Abby Robinson ’22.

Visual Arts Alumna Lizzie Zelter ’22 was selected by the The Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with the School of the Arts and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, to display two paintings in the Columbia Philosophy Building’s Cafe Nous from July 2022 through June 2023. 

 

Expansive, often intricate installations are especially prevalent this year, artists mapping new imagined worlds into the gallery spaces.

From April 21, 2023 to March 10, 2024, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is presenting In the Spirit of Àṣẹ at the Newark Museum of Art. 

Several Columbia University School of the Arts alumni have received Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the most prestigious awards in the arts and humanities.

Visual Arts alumnus Kamrooz Aram ’03 has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

From April 6 to May 13, 2023, Microscope Gallery is presenting Phantom Power, a solo show by Sound Art alumnus Kamari Carter ’18. 

Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Visual Arts David Antonio Cruz about the artist’s greater responsibility, why the university should be a place for productive failure, and why it is important to fall in love with your obsessions. 

 

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.