Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

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. 

 

Until April 23, 2023, the Davis Gallery of Colby College’s Museum of Art is presenting Associate Professor of Visual Arts Naeem Mohaiemen’s interdisciplinary show, Grace, which consists of a collaborative curation and screenings of two films: Grace (2022) and Jole Dobe Na (2020). 

From February 23, 2023 until July 30, 2023, the MassArt Art Museum in Boston, Massachusetts is hosting They Are Part, an interactive exhibition by Interim Director and Assistant Professor of Sound Art Jace Clayton. 

Until April 8, 2023, Visual Arts Alumni Kevin Claiborne ’21 is exhibiting 14 works on wood panels at Sean Horton (Presents) gallery in New York City. Service? (18  x 14 in., 2023), the first acrylic and ink on wood panel piece one encounters in Family Business, is relatively small and difficult to decipher.

One of the most exciting events in the School of the Arts calendar—and probably one of the freshest group shows in town—is the annual First Year MFA Exhibition.

Visual Arts student Andie Carver has been awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in support of her painting-based works. 

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.