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Jan 13-27, 2026
Mary Cara Bates’ (BFA ’91) Smoke on the Horizon was chosen by curator Anne Trauber for “On the Grid, Off the Grid” at Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, NJ. On view February 5-March 1.
Mel Bochner (BFA ’62) is included in “The Painted Word: Text, Gesture, and Expression in Contemporary Art” at Lehman College Art Gallery. On view February 11 – May 2.
Lena Chen (MFA ’22) has received a 2026 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Award from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) for their performance lecture Five Flavors.
Catharine Fichtner (MFA ’95) has been selected as a 2026 Individual Artist Fellow by the Delaware Division of the Arts and the Delaware State Arts Council.
Roy Gialamas’ (BFA ’84) NEOPOLIS bracelet is on view at Contemporary Craft, part of a series of work that is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Michelle Janco’s (BFA ‘20) work on the Season 3 production for “Alma’s Way” on PBS Kids premiered January 19.
Jacquelyn Johnson (BFA ’20) was selected for The Fellowship 26 International Award honorable mention, an annual juried award and group exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography.
Joyce Kozloff (BFA ’64) will be in conversation with Nancy Princenthal on February 20 during the CAA 114th Annual Conference Annual Artist Interviews. She is also participating in “NIGHT,” a group show at DC Moore through February 7.
Adam Milner (MFA ’17) is opening their first solo exhibition in Brazil, “Dada,” on January 31, at Yehudi Hollander-Pappi in São Paulo, through March 14.
Ryan Murray (BFA ’14) is one of three artists featured in “Local Vision,” which opened at Paper City in Holyoke, MA, on January 24.
Ester Petukhova (BFA ’23), Liz Rudnick (BFA ’12), and Nick Sardo (BFA ‘16) are exhibiting at the John Hermann Museum in Bellevue, PA, as part of a show organized by Lexi Bishop, which opened January 24.
Sophia Qin (BFA ’20) is displaying her animated stained glass sculpture at the Blue Line Arts Gallery for the group international craft competition, “By Hand.” On view through February 21.
Randall Rosenthal (BFA ’69) is featured in the show “Real, Surreal, and Photoreal” at the Nassau County NY Museum of Art, running through March 22. Rosenthal is also in “Photorealism in Focus” at the Rose Museum of Art at Brandies University, opening February 11. The Rose Museum is acquiring his Piece Top Secret.
Shori Sims (BFA ’22) is opening their solo exhibition “Over 9000” on February 6 at the Old Bailey Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dan Wilcox (MFA ’15) announced MARS! (Mobilizing Awarenes for Resilient Societies!), an artistic research project utilizing partner institutions and local citizen-science initiatives to develop ideas for an analog Mars mission simulation, to take place for two weeks this October in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Image: Adam Milner