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Summer 2025
Scott Andrew (MFA ’13) will be giving an artist lecture at Kent State University titled “Performative Bodies” on September 12.
Harrison Apple (BHA ’13) will showcase “Calendar Girls in the House of Tilden” at Kelly Strayhorn Theater, opening September 26 and featuring documentation from the Pittsburgh Queer History Project’s photo archive.
Anna Azizzy (BFA ’17) is opening “Pretty Dog Pop Star: A Day in the Life of a Beautiful Dog: The Musical” at PRACTICE Gallery in Philadelphia, through September 26.
Mark Baugh-Sasaki (BFA ’04) was the subject of a Stanford Arts podcast episode, “Art and Oceanography with Mehr Kumar & Mark Baugh-Sasaki.”
Mia Brownell’s (BFA ’93) Still Life with Leda and the Swan was featured in The Untitled Magazine.
Peter Burr (BFA ’02) was awarded at ARS Electronica 2023 for the project NATURAL CONTACTS.
Felipe Castelblanco (MFA ’13) is exhibiting in “Counter-Expeditions,” a major solo exhibition at The Haus for Media Art Oldenburg in Oldenburg, German, on view through September 28.
Jen DeLuna (BFA ’21) was featured on the cover of Art in America’s New Talent Issue.
Roma Devanbu (BFA ’80) opened the solo show “Possessed” on May 10 at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA.
Jamie Earnest (BFA ’16) is exhibiting “A Brief Moment in the Sun,” in Art Alley at the HUB-Robeson Center at Penn State’s main campus, through October 14.
Nkechi Ebubedike (BFA ’06) is showing work in “In This Here Place, We Flesh” at Gallery 495 at Upstate Art Weekend in Hudson Valley, NY.
Lauren Faigeles (BFA ’13) is part of a three-person show, “The Familiar Ugly,” at Basket Books and Art in Houston, closing on August 31.
Marian Galczenski (MFA ’78) showed work at the Monterey Biennial, “Resonance and Reflection,” an exhibition celebrating central California artists at the Monterey Museum of Art, May 15-August 31.
Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA ’00) and Deborah Hosking (BFA ’81) participated in “Tender Tuirse,” an exhibition curated by Asa Sloss, exploring the complex relationship between hospice and critical care for others, at Robert Richard Smith Gallery at the CCAC.
Jess Greenfield (BFA ’06) opened “Heartwood” with Eric Carroll Willliams at Relay Ridge in Knoxville, TN, on view through September 26.
Ian Ingram (MFA ’10) is showing The Woodiest, a robot for woodpeckers, at the AI Ecologies exhibition at Kunsthal Artphy, through September 14. Ingram also gave a talk at Creative Coding Utrecht at their Zoöp meeting, with a particular focus on rats and where they live in our buildings.
Deborah Kass (BFA ’74) was featured by Brooklyn Rail in “Thinking about Debroh Kass’s “The Art History Paintings,” 1989-1992” by Norman L Kleeblatt.
Joyce Kozloff (BFA ’64) will open “Contested Territories” at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, showing a selection of work from the late 1980s. On view September 27, 2025-April 5, 2026.
Christina Lee (BFA ’14) published an essay with The Comics Journal based on her research as an MFA student at FIT’s Illustration program, exploring overlooked feminist cartoonists in the 1970s Underground Comix movement. She also co-curated “Art Mart,” a one-day-only pop-up fair featuring prints, comics, ceramics, magazines, art books, original art, and other wares, for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s July 25 Gallery Crawl.
Shana Moulton (MFA ‘11) was interviewed by Zsofi Valyi-Nagy for Art In America. On June 24, she also joined in a conversation hosted by Electronic Arts Intermix with Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America. She will be participating in Seance: Technology of the Spirit, the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2025 at Seoul Museum of Art, August 26 to November 23.
Talya Petrillo (MFA ’20) is participating in “I-body,” a group show at Cevera Yoon Gallery in Los Angeles, which opened August 8.
Ester Petukhova’s (BFA ‘23) solo show “If and When You Find Me” was reviewed by Emma Riva in Whitehot Magazine in 2023 and will now be featured in their upcoming publication “The Best Art in the World: 20 Years of Noah Becker’s Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art”.
Leah Piepgras (MFA ’97) is showing the piece Feeler Healer in “Muskeg,” an outdoor sculpture exhibition curated by Jacob Rhodes and Jessica Hargreaves, through September 27 at Mother-In-Law’s Grounds in Germantown, NY.
Zak Prekop (BFA ’01) is exhibiting “Durations,” solo exhibition of paintings, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, on view through January 11, 2026.
Sophia Qin (BFA ’20) exhibited Stained Glass Pixels, a collaborative sculpture blending coding, sound, glass art, and animation as a part of a creative technology maker expo in San Mateo, called “Open Sauce,” in July. She also won 1st place, 2nd place, and honorable mention at the California State Fair craft competition at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California.
Nina Sarnelle (MFA ’13) premiered the film “Breath Work” at St. Moritz Art Film Festival on August 22.
Susan Schwalb (BFA ’65) is exhibiting work in “Post-War Abstraction: Works from The Courtauld” at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, on view until October 12.
Denise Soultanian (BFA ’97) is showing a Bonsai Pot Exhibit at Hakone Estate and Gardens in Saratoga, California, on view through December 26.
Max Spitzer (MFA ’21) has been named a Revealed 2026-2027 artist at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio, with an exhibition opening set for September 4, 2026.
Renee Stout (BFA ’80) exhibited Truth-telling, a solo exhibition at Marc Straus in New York City, May 9-July 12, and also was reviewed in Hyperallergic, in “Renee Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry” by Lisa Yin Zhang.
Minjung Suh (BHA ’19) is featured in a solo show, “The Human Condition,” on view through September 6 at Gallery Luan & Co. in Seoul, Korea.
Wyona Gene Tourmaline (BFA ’12) performed a ritual in wearable sculpture, live green-screen, video projection, and sound with Arvid Tomayko at Innerworking Theater on May 21.
Jina Valentine (BFA ’01) showed in the exhibition, “History or Premonition,” at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, which highlighted work by alumni of the Joan Mitchell Center residency program.
Dan Wilcox (MFA ’15) will present the workshop “Introduction to Zirkonium3: ZKM’s Sounds Spatialization Environment” as well as a Robotcowboy performance at PdMaxCOn25~, a PureData and Max Joint conference at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, September 5-7.
Betty Winkler (BFA ’76) has donated her collection of limited-edition etchings and related ephemera by Philip Pearlstein (BFA ’49, HON ’83) to CMU. Betty collaborated with Philip on multiple limited editions over her 40 years of fine art printing.
Image: Jamie Earnest, A Brief Moment in the Sun (detail), 2025