The Hunter Art Department is a union of three distinct areas—Art History, Studio Art and the Galleries—each with a strong faculty and staff. Students can practice many media, can study art history and theory, and can help curate shows and write catalog essays, gaining practical experience as well as knowledge. This holistic approach, seeing the department as a manifold of activities and study opportunities students can selectively engage and take advantage of, is a distinctive aspect of studying at Hunter.
The urban environment is inherently conducive to fostering the department’s triadic, holistic aspect of study: the global art world – an integration of production, curation, and historical analysis—is at our doorstep and is part of daily life at Hunter. The faculty actively uses our art-rich environment to meet our learning goals and shape our courses to incorporate an engagement with our environment.
The thesis work of students receiving graduate degrees from Hunter College’s MFA program will be presented as part of Hunter College’s Spring 2013 Graduate Thesis Exhibition at the Times Square Gallery. This exhibi[...]
May 9, 2013
After Fidel Castro's visit to Caracas in 1959, the merging of art and politics became an urgent goal for leftist groups. This lecture will focus on three different actions that strove to destroy the status quo using ag[...]
March 13, 2013
Internationally renowned artist David Lamelas will stage Time, an ephemeral exercise addressing the nature of time and space. Once the performance starts, one person is asked to count and hand off a minute of time to [...]
February 28, 2013
Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. After leaving his post as the president of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, he presided over Bogotá as mayor for two non-c[...]
February 20, 2013
Ticio Escobar is an art critic, writer, and anthropologist. Formerly Minister of Culture of the Government of Paraguay, and co-founder of the Center for Visual Arts/Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay, he also curated[...]
February 7, 2013
Eco's concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not be completed without the viewer's participation—was highly useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s through the 1970s because it named th[...]
January 31, 2013
The Department of Art and Art History seeks an artist and/or scholar with a dynamic vision for the position of Chair. This is a newly created position to lead and work with Studio, Art History, and the Hunter College G[...]
December 19, 2012
The Department of Art at Hunter College is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by the graduating MFA students. This exhibition divides the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery into individual spaces that repr[...]
December 10, 2012
Artist Melanie Smith and critic José Luis Barrios Lara will speak about the roles of collaboration and media in their ongoing practices. Mexico City-based artist Melanie Smith examines categories of avant-gardism and[...]
October 31, 2012
Artist Jorge Pineda will present his body of work in the context of his current exhibition Jorge Pineda: Shadows and Other Fairy Tales, currently on view at the Hunter College East Harlem Art Gallery. Jorge Pineda belon[...]
October 17, 2012
