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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 '24, Isaiah Davis '25, Dana Schutz '02, Esteban Jefferson '19, In 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.
Visual Art alum Linnéa Gad '22 presents her latest exhibit, Breath is Everywhere, alongside the work of the renowned Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming (1926-2010) at the gallery created in his honor, the Liu Shiming Art Foundation.
Multidisciplinary Visual Arts alum Kevin Cobb '23 has a new solo exhibition, Optic Nerve, at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York.
Visual Arts alum Isaiah Davis '25 opened his third solo exhibition, Confessions of Fire, at King's Leap gallery in Chinatown this fall. The exhibition is available for viewing through December 20, 2025.
Visual Arts alums Jamie Isenstein '04 and Fabienne Lasserre '04 feature prominently in Body / Body / Body, the newest exhibit at Friday Art nomadic gallery. The gallery, which hosts pop-up exhibits and has a virtual collection permanently on view on their website, was founded in 2025 by Visual Arts alums Laura Kleger '04 and Justin Schwarz '02.
Sound Art alum Char Jeré '23 takes new work to two groundbreaking group exhibitions exploring cultural exchanges across the Atlantic—and the cosmos—lasting through February 2026.
Ash on Everything marks Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Kenny Rivero's first solo exhibition in New York in over three years and his fifth with Charles Moffett gallery.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Daphne Arthur about migration, being a student for life, and the conceptual basis of drawing.
