Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

As discussed in our meeting on April 7th, all second year MFA Visual and Sound Art students have the option to and are encouraged to complete their thesis work by participating in individual advising and group critiques via Zoom this semester and graduate in May. 

Current student Aika Akhmetova ’20 and recent graduate Bat-Ami Rivlin ’19 are both recipients of this year’s A.I.R. fellowship.

Last month, VICE Arabia featured the photographic works by current undergraduate student, Amira Nazer.
 

Alumnus Uri Aran '07 is currently featured in a solo show titled House in Gavin Brown’s enterprise (GBE) New York location.

Work by current Sound Art student Julian Day '20 is in this year’s Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. This year, the Biennial celebrates its thirtieth anniversary as the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. The show is curated by Leigh Robb, who also holds the position as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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'.

Recent alumnus Taejoong Kim '19 has a solo show in Duisburg, Germany titled Du. Hosted by the Earport music/performance/art space, Du, which translates to “you” in English, is a show about space, light, and motifs, and how the latter two occupy the former.

Alumna Patrice Aphrodite Helmar ’15 is part of a group exhibit in New York titled Zwang.

This spring at the ICA Miami, alumnus Carlos Sandoval de León '08 has a solo exhibit featuring his installation and sculptural work.

Professor and head of the painting concentration at School of the Arts, Gregory Amenoff is currently in a solo exhibit at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York. The show features recent works by the artist, and this is the gallery’s first time working with Amenoff.

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'.

Current student Roni Aviv is the curator of m.i.o.k., a show currently on view at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University. The title of this show is the question “am I ok” stripped down to the barest letters; with this urgent abbreviation of a careful question in mind, the curator notes in a statement to the university that “[t]his exhibition wrestles with the difficulties of being in the current times.”

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.