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Feb 26-March 11, 2025
Sobia Ahmad (MFA ‘24) received the Wherewithal Research Grant for her project The Allure of Light | رَغبتِ نُور exploring an ancient Sufi parable about a group of moths and a flame. With support from the grant, she will conduct a multidisciplinary investigation and expand on the moth-flame metaphor by engaging with scientists, ethnomusicologists, and devotional poetry and music practitioners from Pakistan.
Mia Brownell (BFA ‘93) is showing the piece Still Life with Leda and the Swan at Untitled Space’s 10th anniversary exhibition, “Uprise 2025: The Art of Resistance,” which opened March 8 in honor of International Women’s Day and will be on view until March 29.
Peter Burr (BFA ‘02) showed a computer simulation of a hypnotic monochrome megastructure in Times Square and will be part of a panel conversation presented by MacDowell and Times Square Arts celebrating the publication “Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square” on March 11 at 6pm at Macdowell NYC.
Felipe Castelblanco (MFA ‘13) is showing work in the upcoming exhibition “Unter Pflanzen” opening March 15 at Museum Sinclair Haus in Germany.
Lena Chen (MFA ‘22) will be showing the film Chinese Touch as part of the series Women, Workers, and Whores on Film co-presented by Ayania Dozier and Screen Slate at Anthology Film Archives in New York, April 4-10. She will also be participating in “Feminism Is Not Your Enemy” for Live Conversations on Gender, Sexuality, and Identity, the culminating exhibition of the 2025 AHL-AAPI Women Artist Chort, opening March 15 at AHL Foundation Gallery in New York City.
Sarika Goulatia (BFA ‘06), Sobia Ahmad (MFA ‘24), Jamie Walters-Kessler (BFA ‘14), and Professor Clayton Merrell will exhibit in the 102nd “Associated Artists Annual” at Erie Art Museum in Erie PA, opening April 3.
Beatriz Echeverria (BFA ‘22) is participating in the group exhibition “Puerto Prican Women in Arts” presented by Reunión Espacio, which opened March 7 at El Schomburg in Chicago.
Marianne Hoffmeister (MFA ‘22) is participating in “Beyond Political Limits Chapter 1,” an assemblage exhibition about multispecies worlds, around the central question: who benefits when species meet? The group exhibition will be open through May 18 2025 at RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology in The Netherlands.
Joyce Kozloff (BFA ‘64) and Jay Miriam (BFA ’12) will be included in the group show “Erotic City” opening at Eric Firestone Gallery in New York City, March 13 to April 26.
Adam Milner (MFA ’17) opened the solo exhibition “Meanwhile” at RAINRAIN in New York City on March 7, showing two large paintings, 156 small ink drawings, two outfits on mannequins, and many small objects, boxes, and platforms. Milner will also be featured in “Supernova 1572,” the inaugural exhibition at Yehudi Hollander-Pappi in Sao Paulo, opening March 20.
Daniel Pillis (MFA ‘16) was featured in a discussion on AI for filmmaking at Emerson College in Boston, MA.
Sophia Qui (BFA ‘20) is exhibiting a stained glass mirror piece, Myth of Narcissus at the Sac Fine Arts Gallery in Sacramento, in the show “Magnus Opus 2025,” open March 11-April 12.
Susan Schwalb (BFA ’65) is participating in the group exhibition, “Marks in Motion: Contemporary Abstract Drawings,” open March 11 – June 11 at Arkansas State University. She will also be showing work at the National Arts Club Annual Exhibiting Artist Members Exhibition, May 1-30 at the National Arts Club, East and West Galleries in New York City.
Sherri Wolfgang (BFA ‘83) is showing the piece Margo in the group exhibition “Women Artists Exhibition” at Dacia Gallery in New York City, on view until March 23.
Image: Adam Milner, Meanwhile