Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

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.

Visual Artist Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is featured in multiple shows this year, from the Bamako Encounters—African Biennale of Photography in Mali and a group exhibition in the Goodman Gallery in Capetown/Johannesburg, South Africa, to a show in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Over the course of 2023, three Visual Arts alumni will partake in the prestigious month-long Fountainhead Residency.

Here, we talk with Visual Arts Lecturer João Pina about his career as a photographer, his new project, Tarrafal, and why failure is essential to learning.

Since 2019, Visual Arts alumna Yujin Lee ’15 has facilitated an independent artist residency called Next Door to the Museum Jeju (ND to the M), on Jeju Island, South Korea. This year, Lee invited Professor of Professional Practice Rirkrit Tiravanija to participate as a resident artist ahead of the Jeju Biennale.

Visual Arts alumni Sophie Kovel ’22 and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Orlee Malka ’18, presented several works as part of Figural Realism, a group exhibition on view at Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn, NY.

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been awarded one of three CatchLight Fellowships. Established in 2017, these fellowships seek to foster an international community of visual artists who are committed to expanding the social footprint of multimedia storytelling.

It was Saturday September 17, 2022, and Columbia alumni Kamari Carter ’19 and Julian Day ’20 were performing their collaborative sound and light piece, To Be Held (2022) as part of Hyphen Hub’s Salon series.

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.