Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.

On Longing is the first solo show of visual art alumna Susan MB Chen ’20, who was recently featured in the New York Times for her organization of a virtual group show with her classmates at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis earlier this year and Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the nation, Visual Arts alumnus, Lisson Gallery, and Clearing Gallery artist Hugh Hayden ’18 was working on a variety of projects, including a meditative basket weaving piece that he immediately set aside.

Visual Arts Mentor David Humphrey has a solo exhibition of his newest paintings at Pamela Salisbury Gallery.

Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dan Torop have photography on show in the New York-based Carriage Trade’s show Social Photography VIII.

Current student Farah Mohammad has artwork in the show Give Me Space: New Prints 2020/Summer, hosted by the International Print Center New York (IPCNY). The exhibition takes its title from Mohammad’s painting.

The School of the Arts welcomes its newest faculty member Sable Elyse Smith, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts. Smith joined the Visual Arts Program in Fall 2020.

Annually, the Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents thesis and first-year exhibitions at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Recent alumna Mónica Félix ’20 created the online exhibit Romance Tropical after the eponymous 1934 movie directed by Juan E. Viguié.

Class of 2020 Visual Arts + Sound Art students who intend to participate in the Thesis Exhibition are eligible to apply for up to $2,000 in assistance for a studio lease.

Dear Visual Arts Class of 2021,

This email summarizes the planning for the Visual Arts class of 2021.

Dear Class of 2020 and 2021, I am writing with an update.

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.