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Juan Hernandez, a current visual arts student, has an individual exhibit at Estudio 74 in Bogotá, Colombia.
From Sep. 20 to Dec. 16, 2019, alumna Maria Antelman ’11 has a solo photography exhibit at the Visual Arts Center located at the University of Texas in Austin. Antelman is an artist based in New York. She studied Art History at the Complutense University in Madrid and holds an MFA from Columbia University. The exhibit, Mechanisms of Affection, shows photography of machines trying to interpret humans. Antelman’s photography here draws inspiration from the aesthetics of early IBM advertising, which marketed machines and women as objects of desire. IBM, which created its…
Professor and alumnus Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 is in three exhibits this fall, two in New York, and one in the Netherlands. He lives in New York but works between New Mexico, the U.S./Mexico border, and the Netherlands.
This year, sound art alumna Lemon Guo ’18 was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Sophie Shen.
In St. Petersburg, Russia, alumna Alexandra “Sasha” Lerman ’12 will have a solo exhibit opening this Saturday, running until Nov. 3, 2019. The exhibit is called Soldiers of the Sun or the Right to Future Tense, and will be shown as part of the ProArte festival, “Contemporary Art at the Traditional Museum.”
The opening reception for the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery’s latest show took place on October 25 from 6-8 pm. The show, titled Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art from Algeria and its Diaspora, borrows its title from a 1979 publication on early Algerian film, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, which references Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Merzak Allouache’s 1976 cult classic film Omar Gatlato.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York reopened to the public on Oct. 21 since its closing in June, revealing a $450 million expansion and breathtaking renovations, including a 30% increase in space. This major reinstallation of art across all 170,000 square feet of the museum has been largely admired by visitors and critics alike; the New York Times praised this expansion for being “possibly unprecedented.” “These exhibitions, several of which are reviewed below, clarify the museum’s ambitious reformation project and provide a valuable commentary on the permanent…
Wai Lau, a current student in the visual arts program, is currently featured in four group exhibits across the world, two in Hong Kong, and two in the U.S.
The Student Spotlight series aims to highlight the work of current MFA students, asking them to share thoughts on their practice by answering curated and peer-submitted questions.
This fall, alumna and sculptor Vivian Chiu ’19 has art featured in two shows, one in Richmond, VA, and one in Philadelphia, PA.
The Pavilion, a four-panel mural by current Baris Gokturk, is currently being installed in Columbia University’s Butler Library (Rooms 211 and 602).
This fall, Associate Professor Shelly Silver has art in four exhibits: three in Germany and one in Japan.
