Alumni News Roundup: Sept 10-23, 2025

Posted on September 22, 2025

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Sept 10-23, 2025

Sobia Ahmad (MFA ‘24) will be screening ONE BIG EYE at Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle on November 8.

Lumi Barron (BFA ’20) screened her animations and design for “The Tiny Angry Witch” at the 15 to 10 International Film Festival in Toronto on September 20.

Magali Duzant (BHA ’09) showed with Conveyor Editions in the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, September 11-14. Duzant released a limited edition of La vie is like that, available at Seaton Street Press, and was recently spotlighted in the Contemporary Lync Book Bliss Column, What the Land Carries, and the February Issue of The Brooklyn Rail.  

Inbar Hagai (MFA ‘24) participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Clairine Lee (BFA ’25) will be showing work alongside Ling-lin Ku, Ranee Henderson, Justin Emmanuel Dumas, and Joshua Challen Ice in the group exhibition “Felt-Occurrence,” curated by Davine Byon, October 3 to November 14 at the Tomayko Foundation in Pittsburgh. 

Alex Lukas (MFA ’18) showed at both the New York Art Book Fair and the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, and is co-organizing “Off Register”, the Santa Barbara Art Book and Print Fair, at the Community Arts Workshop in Santa Barbara on October 18. Lukas also gave talk as part of the University of Buffalo’s Visiting Artist Speaker Series, in conjunction with the solo exhibition “Don’t__Me, I__For__” at the Department of Art’s Lower Gallery, open through October 17, and has work the solo exhibition “As Grass Grows,” a group exhibition at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri until November 2. 

Patricia Mauride (MFA ’95) closed the collaborative exhibition “Flows of Reflectivity” on September 2 at Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York.. 

Alexandra Rubinstein (BFA ’10) is showing several new pieces in “Museum Gift Shop,” a group exhibition at Free Parking in LA, which opened September 13, 2025. 

Carol Salmanson (BS ’75) is participating in Piece by Piece, a group exhibition at Elza Kayal Gallery, in New York, NY, open September 12-October 10, 2025. 

Raymond Saunders (BFA ’60) is featured in “Sixties Surreal” alongside Kay Sekimachi and Harold Stevenson at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, on view through January 19, 2026. 

Image: Lumi Barron, The Tiny Angry Witch