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Sept 24-Oct 7, 2025
Ashley Bravin (BFA ’12) opened a solo show for Hoyt Gallery at the Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, featuring “Catharsis,” an ongoing series of paintings creating a space for disabled viewers to feel recognized and allow for able-bodied viewers to see that disabled lives are multidimensional and valuable. On view through January 22, 2026.
Samira Shaheen Hager (BFA ’83) is showing three paintings from the series Stormy Weather at the Spinning Plate Gallery, in Pittsburgh, PA, open October 4, 2025.
Zaria Jalan (BHA ’18) will be a speaker at AFROTECH this month in Houston. Jalan is currently a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory, studying AI in the Center for Constructive Communication.
Keith Lafuente (BFA ’14) is opening the solo exhibition, “Acts of Service,” an installation of kinetic and static sculptures at Somad in NYC, October 16 to December 18.
Ester Petukhova (BFA ’23) was selected for the 2026 Studios at Mass MoCA Residency, February 14-27, as a Full General Fellow. Petukhova’s artist book/anthology “Little Odessa, A Brighton Beach Anthology” has also been collected into the Houghton Library at Harvard University.
Andres Tapia Urzua (MFA ’94) will be screening SEPIA #1, electroacoustic video collaboration with composer Boris Alvarado, at the International Festival of the Laboratory of Acoustic Ecology in Mexico. The festival will be held November 27- December 3, together with the Morelia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Goethe-Institut Mexiko, and the National Sound Library of Mexico, Cuernavaca, and Mexico City.
Ann Rosenthal (MFA ’99) will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition “Ground Shift” with Paul Rosenblatt, Bridget Shields, and Muchal Demetria Tsouris, opening November 8 at Spinning Plate Gallery in Pittsburgh.
Semi Ryu (MFA ’02) published the collaborative chapter “End-of-Life Review: Embracing Art, Technology, and Culture,” with Beth Collins in Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health.
Stephanie Serpick (BFA ’93) and Susie Leness Gilbert will host a pop-up exhibition on October 23, 6-9pm, at Eleventh Hour Art in Brooklyn.
Andy Vogt (BFA ’92) will be participating in SF Open Studios in Bayview, San Francisco, October 10-12.
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA ’99) is part of Standing Slightly Outside for the 50th anniversary of Franklin Furnace, 1976–2026, curated by Proyectos Raul Zamudio, open through January 18, 2026 at Rudin Gallery, Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Image: Ashley Bravin, Can I Get You A Blanket