Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

Graduating Sound Art student Anthony Sertel Dean ’22 is among the winners of Columbia University’s prestigious Campbell Award. 

Associate Professor and Director Sound Art Miya Masaoka has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. 

Every corner and crevice of Columbia University’s MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.

Upcoming graduates of the Visual Arts MFA will exhibit new video, sound, and performance artworks in a one day event at the Jewish Museum entitled In Response: Jonas Mekas. 

“It’s like the circus,” I overheard someone say, above the floating chimes and disembodied melodies.

Three current Visual Arts students, Linnéa Gad, Vivian Vivas, and Char Jeré, were shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards.

Visual Arts alumna Tara Geer ‘97 is featured in a solo show, Strangely Blooming, at Planthouse in New York City. This show will be on view from April 21 until May 21, 2022. 

 

Alumnus Vikram Divecha ‘19 is featured in a solo show at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Dubai. 

Alumnus Khari Turner ‘21 is featured in his first solo exhibition in his home state of Wisconsin. Mirroring Reflection at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) will be on view from April 30 to July 10, 2022. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Master Printer at the Neiman Center for Print Studies Nathan Catlin ’12 is featured in a solo show, What Goes on Behind a Windowpane. This exhibition of new works is on view at Davidson Gallery in New York City until April 30, 2022. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor Yasi Alipour  '18 is featured in a solo exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia. The Pleasure of Futile Cycles opened on March 29, 2022 and remain on view until April 23. 

 

Professor Susanna Coffey’s work is featured in the group show What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia. This show will remain on view until August 14, 2022. 

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.