Visual Arts + Sound Art News

NEWS

Visiting Professor Susanna Coffey has a solo exhibit at the Alpha Gallery in Boston, MA, titled Night Light: 1995-2019. 

This fall, Professor Aliza Nisenbaum is featured in two exhibits:  a solo exhibit at the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, and a group exhibition in Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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.

 

Professor Miya Masaoka, Head of Sound Art, has been invited to the Inaugural Toronto Biennial, which is a new international contemporary visual arts event that stretches across Toronto’s waterfront. She also had a recent exhibition at the Gutenberg Sound Art Academy, located in Mainz, Germany.

Rona Yefman ’09, a mentor and alumna of the visual arts program, put on her first Scandinavian show this past May with the solo exhibit The Strongest Girl in the World. The gallery presenting the show is the Oslo Kunstforening, in Oslo, Norway.

This Thursday, a solo exhibit of Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work will open at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD. The exhibit is titled FEAR EATS THE SOUL.

Visual arts alum N. Dash '10 has a solo show on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.

Visual Arts professor Jon Kessler was recently in an exhibition with multiple installations in Shanghai at Chronus Art Center as well as in Guangzhou at the Guangdong Museum of Art.

The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.

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.

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.