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September 1-October 19, 2026
Sobia Ahmad’s (MFA ’24) solo exhibition, “As One They Quake,” is currently on view at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Schaefer Gallery in Saint Peter, Minnesota, through November 13.
Adria Arch (BFA ’74) curated a group show, “ReFrame,” at The Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA, through November 14.
Peter Burr (BFA ’02) began a new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lelia Byron (BFA ’13) has two solo exhibitions featuring paintings based on interviews with residents of Springfield, Ohio. Paintings from the series are currently on view in “Traces” at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from September 25 through November 13. Other paintings from the series will be on view in The Names We Give to Home at Northwestern University from October 7 through December 8.
Cheryl Casteen (MFA ’06) co-curated the group show “Terra (Almost) Firma,” across two spaces, the Zo Gallery and the Fox Studio Gallery, in Baltimore.
Lena Chen (MFA ’22) was appointed to the ICA LA’s 2026-2027 Artist in Residence Program, following the program’s inaugural year which featured C. Ryu (MFA ’23).
Hank Ehrenfried (BFA ’14) is part of “The Tower” by Ortega y Gasset Projects (OyG) in Brooklyn, running through November 1.
Hannah Epstein (MFA ’17) showed work in an “Artist Spotlight” booth at Spring/Break Art Fair in NYC on September 23-28.
Chantal Feitosa-Desouza (MFA ’25) opened a solo show, “Steady Hands for Wandering Eyes,” at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey on October 2, running through January 10, 2027.
Deborah Kass (BFA ’74) was commissioned to create a large-scale public art installation titled EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY at 92NY, recently featured in The New York Times. Kass will also be honored at the Art Students League of New York’s 2026 Gala celebrating three women who have made an indelible mark on the art world, along with Louise Bourgeois and Christine Mack.
Dana Lok (BFA ’11) showed work alongside two other artists in “Call It” from August 29-October 11 at AILSA.
Alex Lukas (MFA ’18) presented “Stop Hiding Behind Masks” at the Printed Matter Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 on September 24–27, and will next be at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair on October 31 – November 1 at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Tucker Marder’s (MFA ’16) Folly Tree Arboretum was the subject of feature in the September 4 digital edition of The New Yorker magazine.
Dervla McDonnell (BFA ’15) began a new development position at the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools supporting public education for children throughout LA.
Jackson McKeehan’s (MFA ’21) short film “HVAC” has been accepted into 27 film festivals to date this year, including Newfest in New York, the San Jose Int’l Short Film Festival (academy award qualifying festival), Bengaluru Int’l Short Film Festival (also an academy award qualifying festival), The Greenpoint Film Festival, OutSouth, VAEFF, and Atlanta Shortsfest.
Shana Moulton (MFA ’11) presented eight synchronized video projections in “Meta/Physical Therapy” September 23-26 at the Akron Art Museum.
Tom Norulak (BFA ’71) is included in “Notes on Prints and Printmaking,” a three-part exhibition from Pittsburgh Print Group, in collaboration with Artists Image Resource, Brew House Arts, and Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, on view through October 10.
Ester Petukhova (BFA ’23) is part of a five-person group show curated by Nana Cheon (BHA ’20) of Nuun Gallery at Hello Project Space in New York through November 12.
Leah Crowley Piepgras (MFA ’97) and Patricia Maurides (MFA ’95) are featured in “A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined,” a multi-venue exhibition organized by the Association of Hysteric Curators, through November 14.
Daniel Pillis (MFA ’16) won Best Paper at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) hosted in Pittsburgh, at the Workshop on Semantic-Aware Mapping and Navigation (SeMaNa), for his research project “Humanoids at Home: Autobiographical Semantic Maps for Humanoid Motion from Memory.” Pillis’s early work in this area, his CMU project on his grandmother’s house, is featured in Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy”, out now.
Ben Rosenthal’s (BFA ’06) newest work, “Ωmega One: of (((directives))), once removed” made its U.S. festival premiere as part of the 20th Buffalo International Film Festival, on October 9.
Paul Rouphail (BFA ’10) will open a solo exhibition, “The Embarrassment,” at Galerie Rolando Anselmi in Rome on October 23, running through January 30, 2027.
Alexandra Rubinstein (BFA ’10) talked with Hyperallergic for a September 9 article, “A Brief History of Testicle Art,” about her 2020 scultpure “Disco Balls.”
C. Ryu (MFA ’23) participated in an Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, exhibition “Grounding Bodies, Casting Dreams,” on view through November 1.
Samira Shaheen (BFA ’83) is featured in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 112th Annual Exhibition, “Near Here,” with paintings on view at Indiana University of Pennsylvania through October 23.
Professors Emeriti Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson are exhibiting 43 works in “for nothing is fixed” on the campus of SUNY Fredonia, where they also delivered visiting artist lectures on September 11 and October 16.
Renee Stout (BFA ’80) is featured, along with Professor Sharmistha Ray, in “Magic: Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art,” a major new volume by scholar Dr. Amy Hale published by Tate Publishing.
Melissa Thorne (BFA ’93) spoke at the Morris Museum in Augusta, GA, on September 17 to begin her tenure as the Morris Eminent Scholar.
Image: Susanne Slavick, Red Carpet II, 2026, Archival digital print, 10 x 14 inches