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MFA Pop-Up Exhibition installation for Open Studios / Open Fields, November 8, 2025, at Dock 72. Photo: Dylan Bosch |
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April 20, 2026
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CAMPUS EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS |
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Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions Opening Today, April 20! |
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BFA Drawing Thesis Week 3
DeKalb Gallery
Opening Reception Monday, April 20, 5-7pm
On view April 20-24, Monday - Thursday from 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-12pm
Exhibiting Artists: Lucia Marie Bautista, Madison Dominguez Norris, and Claire Parker |
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BFA Painting Thesis Week 4
Steuben Gallery
Opening Reception Monday, April 20, 5-7pm
On view April 20-24, Monday - Thursday from 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-12pm
Exhibiting Artists: James DeBay, Jackson Ebbin, Sive Hourigan, Kendall Hadley Legum, Xavier Ramirez, Sahithi Samsani, and Zyra Yang |
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Coming Soon: Opening Monday, April 27. . . |
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BFA Sculpture & Integrated Practices Thesis
Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery
Opening Reception Monday, April 20, 5-7pm
On view April 27 - May 4, Monday - Saturday, from 10am-5pm
Exhibiting Artists: Abdullah Gramish, Sajan Patel, Taylor Reese, Isaiah Robinson, Kimberly Wu, and Yuqing Wu
BFA Drawing Thesis Week 4
DeKalb Gallery
Opening Reception Monday, April 27, 5-7pm
On view April 27 - May 1, Monday - Thursday from 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-12pm
Exhibiting Artist: Jen McDonald
BFA Painting Thesis Week 5
Steuben Gallery
Opening Reception Monday, April 27, 5-7pm
On view April 27 - May 1, Monday - Thursday from 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-12pm
Exhibiting Artists: Caris Cheng, Kate Christian, Kylie Hicks, Stephen Holmes, Lucille Lindberg, Violet Middlebrook, Rose Pertofsky, Xinying Shen, and Kathryn Silk
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MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 2: Ghost Light
Curated by Alessandra Gómez
Opening Reception Monday, April 27, 6-8pm
On view April 27 - May 8, Monday - Saturday, 12-6pm
Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Exhibiting Artists: Julie Jewon Huh, Jay Guo, malu laet, Yongxi (Vivian) Lin, Minjee, Marie Moeller, Jessi Olarsch, Caroline O’Grady, Morgan O’Connell, Sefa Ozdogan, Hannah Law, Tanvi Shaha, Ry Watkins, Rainy Yuchen Wei, Nessa Yang, and Zheming (Jennings) Yang
Registration is required to attend the Opening Reception and visit the exhibition during Gallery Viewing Hours. |
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Event update: due to a scheduling conflict, Louis Fratino will now be joined "In Conversation" with Michael Brennan, Adjunct Professor, CCE. |
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Louis Fratino & Michael Brennan in Conversation
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 6-7:30pm
Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required to attend. |
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Eventbrite closes at Noon EDT on May 5 2026. |
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Welcoming Kamau Amu Patton as 2026-27 Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow! |
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Fine Arts’ Fellowship in Civic Engagement is a one (renewable to two) year position for an established artist who is active in collaborative, socially engaged practices that seek to address the social and political realities of communities. The Fellowship fosters interdisciplinary collaboration across the institute and forges relationships with external communities and organizations. In addition to teaching responsibilities in the Fine Arts Department, the fellow will develop programming and/or workshops connecting their practice to internal and external communities. |
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Kamau Amu Patton at Fulton Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2023 (photo courtesy of the artist) |
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Kamau Amu Patton, Light Atmospheres: Saint Andrews Park at Night, 2023, digital photo (photo courtesy of the artist) |
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Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Patton’s work engages archives, documents, networks and sites. Patton’s practice is a charting of language, movement, thought, speech and actions, which aims to develop structures to archive histories of community building through an investigation of stories and strategies of placemaking. Patton’s project, Afterlife Geographies, documents “way of life” practices in relation to processes of settlement and the development of sites through which communities articulate worldview, synthesize experience, and establish infrastructures of empowerment and remembrance. In September 2017, Patton installed an iteration of his ongoing project, Tel, at the Tang Museum. In 2019, Patton’s public art commission with the Bowman Montessori School in Palo Alto, CA, was open to the public. Patton is a 2020 Creative Capital Grant Awardee. In 2020 Patton was an artist in residence at Coaxial Arts Foundation in Los Angeles and he was a 2020 Archive Artist in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Utilizing recordings from the Sun Ra / El Saturn Collection, Patton created The Past & Other Dreams, a double cassette produced by the artist in collaboration with the Creative Audio Archive at ESS. A box set LP of Paton’s arrangements of Terry Adkins’s Lone Wolf Recital Corps Recitals, Second Mind | Alto Age, was released in partnership with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2021. In 2022 Patton performed new sound compositions at Roulette Intermedium and Basilica Arts in Hudson New York. In October of 2022, Patton presented a solo exhibition at the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San Jose State University. In June 2023 Patton presented a new inter-media performance, Dromeostasis as part of the Signals exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2024 Patton performed new sound compositions as part of the exhibition Flight Into Egypt, Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876- Now at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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FACULTY, ALUMNI, & STUDENT EXHIBITIONS |
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AWARDS, EVENTS, & REVIEWS |
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Top: Jack Catlett, photo by Ming Jin
Bottom: Flāv Corporation Industrial Materials, Flāv Farms. One Community, One Faith, One Happiness, 2025. A.I. generated advertisements, soil, rocks, sticks, paint, marker, 8' x 12' x 5' (photo courtesy of the artist) |
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MFA Sculpture '26
Jack Catlett (b. 2000) is a visual artist from Louisville, KY, and currently practices in New York, NY. Catlett's work explores our relationship with the natural universe through the lens of a paralleled reality he calls the aminal-plane. He works with both found and purchased materials from the aminal-plane: plants, dirt, and sticks, in contrast with consumer packaging, industrial materials, and artificial intelligence. The latter are supplied by the Flāv Corporation, the largest single-entity on the aminal-plane. Catlett himself is an employee of the Flāv Corp and finds himself entangled between the chaotic yet beautiful sublime force of Nature and his powerful employer that uses appropriated facades of propaganda for control. Through the complex narratives of coexisting systems and organisms on the aminal-plane, Catlett questions the true definition of Nature in our own human-centric reality through sculpture, drawing, performance, and installation. |
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Top: Taylor Reese, photo courtesy of the artist
Bottom: Troubadour, photo courtesy of the artist |
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BFA Sculpture & Integrated Practices '26
Taylor Reese on his work: The demand for nature usually boils down to the fact that what is wanted is echoes and not invention. As a fourth-generation cattle rancher from Texas, the echoes in NYC are louder than ever. Vaqueros taught me how to use cattle brands and reconfigure barbed wire—a process I now recognize as its own form of sculptural transformation. Searching within my own fiction, I’m investigating how far the borders we create actually extend, and where they begin to dissolve. Humans corralled by animals. Branding our own fictions onto each other, moving through the city as if through a cattle chute. Even though animals are woven in barbed wire, hunted for sport, and living in a world built against them, they teach us what remains of freedom. |
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Top: Leon Zhan, photo courtesy of the artist
Bottom: Lion's Grove, 2025. Oil on linen, 8" x 13" (photo courtesy of the artist) |
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MFA Painting & Drawing '26
Leon Zhan (b. 2000, Australia) is a New York-based artist working in painting and sculpture to explore the synergy between memory culture, traditional knowledge, and place-making practices. Born and raised on the coastal shores of Noosa and having spent formative years in Shanghai, Zhan reflects on the constant and unfixed negotiation of his lived experiences diffused across cultures.
Zhan is an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute for Painting/Drawing graduating 2026, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship from the Australian Arts Council and the AusArt Graduate Fellowship from the American Australian Association. He has been exhibited locally and internationally at BANK/MABSOCIETY (New York), Kasmin Gallery (New York), FUTURES (Melbourne), the Museum of Chinese Australian History (Melbourne), and the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), among others. |
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Congratulations, Jack, Taylor, and Leon! |
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