Pratt Fine Arts Newsletter

MFA Pop-Up Exhibition installation for Open Studios / Open Fields, November 8, 2025, at Dock 72. Photo: Dylan Bosch

February 23, 2026

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FACULTY, ALUMNI, & STUDENT EXHIBITIONS

Will Hutnick, The Clouds Leave Coats of Ragged Time, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist.

MFA alum Will Hutnick solo exhibition TIME'S A GOON at High Noon Gallery

MFA alum Rodrigo Angel Jimenez-Ortega solo exhibition It Is What It Is at Eastern Projects Gallery in Los Angeles

Faculty Claudia Bitrán solo exhibition Titanic, A Deep Emotion at Cristin Tierney Gallery

MFA alum Nazanin Noroozi exhibition Black Milk of Dawn - We Drink You at Night at KAPOW Gallery

Faculty Jen Mazza exhibition Ceruse at Ulterior Gallery

Artwork by Aldo Macedo. Photo courtesy of the artist.

BFA student Aldo Macedo and BFA alum Michelle Wen selected for National Sculpture Society's 2026 Young Sculptors Exhibition

Promotional graphic for Spier Light Art Festival. Bright green text over darker green gradient background. Courtesy of Joe Turpin.

MFA alum Joe Turpin participating in Spier Light Art Festival at Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Faculty Sam Vernon duo exhibition, KinoSaito Residency: The Work of Holding, on view in Pratt Institute School of Design Gallery

Faculty Jean Shin featured in group exhibition Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art at the Rose Museum

BFA alum Lisa Corinne Davis included in Line / Form group exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery

Faculty Nell Klugman and MFA alum Patrick Row co-curators for The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection at the Bronx Museum

Faculty and MFA alum Yasmeen Abdallah in AnkhLave Arts Alliance Off-Biennale in Cairo, Egypt

BFA alum Aidan Lapp exhibition Hold Still at AuxierKlein Gallery, NYC

BFA alum Mickalene Thomas installation Portrait of Mnonja adjacent to the High Line at 18th St. and 10th Ave.

AWARDS, EVENTS, & REVIEWS

MFA alum Zakariya Abdul-Qadir announced as a 2026 AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum

Faculty Jean Shin a 2026 Creative Capital Award Recipient

MFA student Qudir Ayodele selected as a 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Student Program semifinalist

MFA alum Nikki Terry interview in Bold Journey "Meet Nikki Terry"

Alumni exhibitions at COPE NYC covered in Prattfolio's Alumni Notes Fall 2025

MFA alum Isabelle Brourman featured in Los Angeles Magazine article "How Isabelle Brourman Build a Career in Abstract Courtroom Sketches"

MFA alum and Studio/Gallery Manager Taylor Bielecki in Art Spiel "Community and Belonging: Grit of the Hearth Beyond the Brambles at Field of Play," review of group exhibition featuring MFA alumni and curated by MFA alum and faculty Yasmeen Abdallah

"Street Corner Conversations" exhibition review by MFA alum and Studio/Gallery Manager Taylor Bielecki in Tussle Magazine

MFA alum and Fine Arts Assistant Chair Chip McCall 2026 Artist in Residence at Wendell Castle Workshop

Chip McCall holds a BFA in Sculpture from Clemson and an MFA in Painting & Drawing from Pratt Institute. He is the Assistant Chairperson of Undergraduate Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. McCall has shown his work extensively in various galleries in NYC, Oregon, and South Carolina. He has also been awarded fellowships at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn.

Photos courtesy of Chip McCall

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, & OPPORTUNITIES

NARS Foundation International Residency

Project Studio Program 2026 at Painting Space 122

NEW INC Open Call for Incubator Members

AXA Art Prize for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Part-Time Gallery Assistant at Canal Projects NY

Multiple Employment Opportunities at Ox-Bow School of Art