Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

In his debut solo exhibition at DON'T LOOK Projects in Los Angeles, Conor Dowdle '23 presents a body of work that enacts and revises perception through en plein air study.

Visual Arts alum Judy Chung '18 opened a solo exhibition of her paintings, Cafeteria, at the downtown gallery RAINRAIN on February 13, 2026.

Visual Arts alum Krista Gay '24 recently opened a solo show, The Tips of My Grandmother’s Finger Itch When I Say Her Nameat Sinkhole in Ridgewood, NY.

Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze’s debut gallery exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills, Sarah Sze: Feel Free, opened recently, bringing together two immersive video installations with new large-scale paintings featuring Sze's signature layered surfaces.

Alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Esteban Cabeza de Baca '14 recently opened his third show with Garth Greenan Gallery, Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Pollinators.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Karen Dias has a new solo exhibition, Karen Dias: A Dotted Line, on view at Twelve Gates Arts, a gallery centering South and West Asian diasporic artistic voices in Philadelphia.

Visual Arts alum Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee '25 recently opened her debut New York solo exhibition, Possibly, Here [ 遠根近花 ], at Harper’s Chelsea 534.

Alums Kamrooz Aram '03 and Michelle Lopez (BC '92) are among the 56 artists, duos, and collectives examining relationality in the eighty-second Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. 

School of the Arts student Alejandro Valencia likes the intensity of New York—as well as occasionally leaving it.

GIVE ME TWO… or give me six! Anton Kern Gallery's ongoing group exhibition, GIVE ME TWO, features six Columbia alums: Olivia Drusin '24Isaiah Davis '25Dana Schutz '02, Esteban Jefferson '19In June Park '25, and Elzie Willams '22—not to mention Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Kenny Rivero.

In To My Best Friend, an exhibition that opened on January 23, 2026, Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze joins leading contemporary voices to celebrate the growing collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA/Boston).

It's Here, the debut solo exhibition by Visual Arts alum Annika Tucksmith '25, is on view now until January 31, 2026.

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.