NEWS
Visual Arts Alumna Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin ’15 currently has works in two galleries: How Do We Begin at X Museum in Beijing, China, and Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong at Hong Kong’s Asia Society.
The Brooklyn-based gallery Kunstraum LLC presents work from alumna Nadja Verena Marcin ’10 at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) FAIR. The FAIR is a new art fair initiative designed to be entirely online, function cooperatively, and act as a benefit for NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits and artists. According to NADA, “A percentage from each sale made from FAIR will directly benefit all participating galleries and artists. In addition, a percentage of each sale will go towards supporting NADA for their efforts in producing FAIR, their continued work…
Work by alumna Vesna Pavlović ’07 is currently included in Viral Self-Portraits, an online exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The spring 2020 end-of-semester show for undergraduates is now online.
Two Columbia artists are featured in All at Once, an online exhibit hosted by the Fridman Gallery in New York.
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'.
During her Spring 2019 visit to the School of the Arts, internationally acclaimed visual artist Ann Hamilton presented CHORUS, her stirring new work for New York City straphangers. Installed in the Cortlandt Street Station — destroyed on 9/11 and reopened in 2018 — the large-scale public work weaves text from the Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in marble on the walls of the repaired transit space. We asked Hamilton what she is working on and thinking about now.
Current student Khari Turner, Visual Arts, sat down with his roommate Po-Yu Chen, Film Directing, to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work. Their light filled apartment has turned into Turner’s art studio.
This year, undergraduate seniors studying visual arts will have their annual thesis exhibition online. The exhibition, which ordinarily features work from graduating seniors in a one-day show at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Dodge Hall, will run online from May 7 through June 15 but will be available long afterward. For the show, each student has created their own page on the exhibition site and contributed to a physical catalog that will be mailed out soon. Ordinarily, this would be an in-person celebration of seniors’ last four years at the university.
On April 23, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members of 2020. Among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders inducted include Columbia University’s Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93.
If you plan to graduate prior to the mounting of the Class of 2020 Exhibition please follow these guidelines in preparation for your Preliminary Thesis Committee Meeting.
Paintings by recent alumna Annette Hur ’19 are on display in Columbia University’s Café Nous, located in Philosophy Hall. This solo exhibit was curated by Jennifer Mock, who is the Associate Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery.
