Class of 2021 MFA thesis exhibition

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2021 MFA thesis exhibition in two installments at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. This exhibition encompasses work by the 22 artists who completed the Visual Arts MFA program May 2021. Curator Amy Sadao notes, “this exhibition of emerging contemporary art looks, sounds, feels like and responds to the world in which it is being made.”

Participating artists

Sound artists: Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, Tim Kwasny, and Yixuan Shao.

Visual artists: Rasel Ahmed, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Ivana Carman, Kevin Claiborne, Noga Cohen, Ian Decker, Juan Hernández Díaz, Priscilla Jeong, Bicheng Liang, Keli Safia Maksud, Sergio Miguel, Farah Mohammad, Diana Palermo, Ava Snow Ravich, Denisse Griselda Reyes, John A. Rivas, Khari Turner, Raelis Vasquez, and Yuri Yuan.

Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday 12–6pm
Open to the public. Registration required.

The Lenfest Center for the Arts is subject to the Key to NYC Executive Order. Therefore all guests entering the building will be required to show proof of vaccination and ID.

Columbia University School of the Arts recognizes Manhattan as part of the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Lenni Lenape and Wappinger people. By acknowledging the legacies of displacement, migration, and settlement that have enabled us to gather, we are taking a small first step toward the long and overdue process of healing and repair. The School of the Arts continues to confront and address issues of exclusion, erasure, and systemic discrimination through ongoing education and responsible representation.