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Sound Art alum Avishag Cohen Rodrigues ’21 released her newest single, “Some Are,” off her upcoming EP All Happens at Night, with a music video directed by Adeline Thery.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Jon Kessler about mechanical sculpture, the importance of technical mastery, and the value of analog skills in a digital world.

Celestial Navigation, an exhibit curated by Visual Arts student Jeannie Rhyu, brings art students into conversation with Ptolemy and Galileo.

On Saturday, April 26, 2025, twenty-nine emerging and established artists celebrated the culmination of their MFA experiences at the School of the Arts' annual MFA Thesis Exhibition opening.

Marinaro Gallery is presenting Wet Feet, the first solo painting exhibition in New York by multidisciplinary artist and Visual Arts alum Molly Lowe ’12, running from April 10 to May 17, 2025.

Our thoughts and condolences go out to the Neiman family and LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation at the loss of their beloved matriarch and co-founder, Janet Byrne Neiman.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Yuri Yuan ’21 opened her third solo exhibition with Alexander Berggruen Gallery, Hide and Seek.

Sarah Sze, Professor of Visual Arts, renowned multidisciplinary artist, and 2003 MacArthur Fellow, recently opened her first solo exhibition in Asia at Gagosian, Hong Kong.

On Sunday, March 30, 2025, twenty-eight of New York's most cutting-edge emerging artists debuted new works in one of the city's most exciting group shows: the School of the Arts' annual First Year MFA Exhibition.

Transdisciplinary artist Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers '22 has premiered her latest installation, Eastern Aphasia Caress (EAC), at the New York Public Library's Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library on 20th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Visual Arts alum Anna Ting Möller '23 explores disgust—and more—in a new show at MASS MoCa, Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, alongside New Red Order and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh. 

 

For her Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre on March 6, Miya Masaoka presented a substantial, cohesive, and emotive demonstration of how she has mastered illusory chaos.

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.