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Breathing Water to Air, Visual Arts alumni Khari Turner's '21 first New York solo exhibition, is available for viewing at Ross-Sutton Gallery until August 7, 2021. 

Visual Arts alumni Khari Turner's '21 first New York solo exhibition, is available for viewing at Ross-Sutton Gallery until August 7, 2021. 

River Flows in You, a debut solo exhibition of work by alumna Yuri Yuan '21, is available for viewing at Alexander Berggruen Gallery in New York City until August 31, 2021.

'37 Stories About Leaving Home; (1996) by Associate Professor Shelly Silver is screening both in person and online at Basedonart Gallery in Düsseldorf as part of the Resonances of DiStances exhibition through August 4, 2021.

The work of Visual Arts alumnus Kiyan Williams ’19 is featured in two exhibitions opening this July.

Alumna Yuri Yuan ’21 was recently named one of the finalists of the 2021 AXA Art Prize Competition.

Among the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the closest to home for the School of the Arts community has been the effect on students' MFA experience. Thanks to shut-downs and a switch to remote or hybrid learning, many of our students have not been able to showcase or even practice their art in a typical way. 

 

Derick Whitson ’17 is among the eight artists whose work comprises Mighty Joy, the new exhibition presented by SPANTZO Gallery.

Visual Arts alumnus Ben Hagari ’14 will have his work exhibited by Fundación CALOSA in Mexico as part of a new solo show.

Professor Sarah Sze has been commissioned to create a new, site-specific work for the permanent collection at Storm King Art Center.

The Wallach Art Gallery invites Columbia University community members to join them for a unique interactive performance that will help realize the New York presentation of artist Sharon Chin’s In the Skin of a Tiger: Monument to What We Want (Tugu Kita).

Work by Visual Arts alumna Clare Koury '20 is currently available for viewing in a new exhibition at Miriam Gallery, There was earth in them, and they dug. The exhibition will be open until August 8, 2021. 

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.