Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

Adjunct Assistant Professor Yasi Alipour ’18 and Visual Arts alumnus Cy Morgan ’16 have been awarded biennial grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, which offers $20,000 to artists selected for their talent and individual artistic strength. 

Until March 15, 2023, two hand-pulled photogravure prints from the series A, B, C, D, E by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Craig Zammiello are on display at the Penumbra Foundation’s group exhibition, Photography in Ink.

From March 31 to September 10, 2023, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will turn its space over to Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze for her solo exhibition, Sarah Sze: Timelapse.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Visual Arts Pamela Sneed has been awarded a Creative Capital award for the 2023 cycle.

Sound Art alumna Lauren Covey ’21 has recently been named an Associated Artist by Culture Push, where she will receive fiscal, institutional and creative support for a project called Sonic Portraits of NY.

Visual Arts students Kevin Cobb and Nick Farhi, and alumnus Elzie Williams III '22, are participating in MZ.25 (My Condolences), a reimagined group exhibition at the renowned M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, California. 

Visual Arts student Kat Lowish and alumni Asif Mian ’21, Emma Schwartz ’19, and Elzie Williams III ’22 are featured in Thierry Goldberg Gallery’s group show, True Alchemy.

The Albuquerque Museum is hosting three exhibitions focused on contemporary interpretations of the New Mexico landscape. One of these exhibitions is Becoming Land, by Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts Nicola López '04 and Paula Wilson '05, which will be on view until February 12, 2023. 

For Visual Arts alum Sophie Kovel ’22, the new year began with a solo show at Petrine Gallery in Paris, France.

Visual Arts student Calvin Kim ’23 showed three works at Subtitled NYC’s group show in Brooklyn, NY, Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pic.

Mian’s art practice is equal parts ritual and performance, plan and chance.

Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts Shirly Bahar has been awarded a Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship to be carried out at the University of Michigan.

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.