SVA BFA Fine Arts

02/05/2024

This Thursday, please join us for the opening reception of our department exhibition, “From Nature to Culture”, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery.

“From Nature to Culture,” a four-part exhibition exploring 21st century themes in an uncertain world, curated by BFA Fine Arts chair Suzanne Anker, Director of Operations Gunars Prande, and department faculty members Ron Baron and George Boorujy. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, February 8, through Saturday, February 24, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 W 26th Street, 15th floor, New York City.

The SVA Chelsea Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00am to 6:00pm, Mondays by appointment, and closed on Sundays. It is fully accessible by wheelchair.

Artwork featured by
Yunxin Zhu
Ruotai Tang
Kaitlyn Bilias

01/01/2024

09/27/2023

Next Thursday, please join us in-person for a Visiting Artist Lecture with art historian, Suzaan Boettger.

Suzaan Boettger, art historian and critic, will discuss paintings she discovered and deciphered in research for her new book Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson. Smithson’s images’ correspondences to a disguised self unmasked his art as autobiography, prompting a biographical approach—the first for this artist. As a coolly innovative sculptor and essayist famous for Spiral Jetty, Smithson sought to suppress his earlier images of Christ’s crucifixion; angels hunky, lithe or buried; astrological symbols; and exploding pen*ses in delirious undergrounds. This paired with the reappearance of symbols in his putatively abstract earthworks show that Smithson is more fascinating than anyone realized for reasons that no one knew until Inside the Spiral.

Thursday, Oct 5th | 7pm
209 East 23rd Street
3rd floor Amphitheater

Free and open to the public.

04/11/2023

Get ready! Our Spring 2023 Open Studios is coming up on Monday, May 1st.

Join us at the SVA Fine Arts Building in Chelsea where our Senior students will open their studios for viewing, along with other exhibition spaces throughout the building. We're looking forward to this end-of-year showcase of Fine Arts student work.

Monday, May 1st | 6:00 - 9:00 PM
335 West 16th Street
Between 8th & 9th Ave

RSVP required for non-SVA Visitors
Reservation link in bio

Artwork featured by:
Yali Reichman
Shirley Li
Savio Zigbi-Johnson
Lan Guo

02/02/2023

BFA Fine Arts is thrilled to present four exhibitions opening at the SVA Chelsea Gallery. Please join us for an opening reception next Thursday from 6-8pm.

"Shades of Darkness"
Curated by Suzanne Anker

"Hanging by a Thread"
Curated by Sam Sherman

"From Here to There"
Curated by Gunars Prande

"Prompt Response: Fusion of Forms"
Curated by Federico Muelas Romero,
Joseph Tekippe,
& Luis Navarro

SVA Chelsea Gallery
601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor
On view February 9 - 27, 2023

Reception:
Thursday, February 9, 6-8pm
RSVP is not required, but all visitors to the gallery must wear masks indoors.
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10-6pm. Closed on Sundays

Artwork featured (in order):
Lizhang Li
Carlin Phillips
Christopher Lochmann
Yunge Wen

01/30/2023

Next Monday, February 6th, join us online for a Visiting Artist Lecture with artist and SVA Fine Arts alum, Adebunmi Gbadebo!

Adebunmi Gbadebo is a multimedia artist who uses culturally imbued materials to investigate the complexities between land and memory in the American South. Centering on deeply resonant materials like indigo dye, soil hand dug from plantations and human Black hair collected throughout the diaspora, Gbadebo has formed a visual vocabulary entirely her own. Born in New Jersey and based between Newark and Philadelphia, Gbadebo earned her BFA at School of Visual Arts, NY.

Gbadebo’s ceramic works are currently on exhibition in the show, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will tour nationally, traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in March. She is currently a 2022 Pew Fellow and has been written about in notable publications, including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Hypebeast, Papermaking Magazine and the American Craft Council magazine. Gbadebo has been broadcasted on BBC Newsday and has given talks at the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Newark Museum.

Gbadebo’s works are included in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, South Carolina State Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Newark Museum of Art amongst others. Gbadebo has presented in exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally at the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, and 1-54 African Art fair, London.

Monday, February 6th
7pm EST | Zoom
Registration link in bio

12/09/2022

Next Monday! Join us in-person for our Fall Open Studios. Our Senior studios will be open, along with other exhibition spaces from Fine Arts students.

RSVP is required for non-SVA visitors. Masks and proof of vaccination will be required for entry. Link in bio more Eventbrite registration.

Monday, Dec 12th
6 - 9 PM
335 West 16th Street

Artwork featured:
Elliot Havens
Minseok Kang
Ryan Yu
Nicholas Delcastillo
Yutong Ding

11/18/2022

Please join us on Monday for a Visiting Artist Lecture with Thao Nguyen Phan on Zoom.

Trained as a painter, Phan is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses video, painting and installation. Drawing from literature, philosophy and daily life, Phan observes ambiguous issues in social conventions and history. She exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at Tate St. Ives, England (2022); the Venice Art Biennale, Italy (2022); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2020); WIELS, Brussels (2020), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Lyon Biennale, France (2019); Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2019); Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (2018); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); Para Site, Hong Kong (2018); Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City (2017); Nha San Collective, Hanoi (2017); and Bétonsalon, Paris (2016), among others. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award.

In addition to her work as a multimedia artist, Phan is co-founder of the collective Art Labor, which explores cross-disciplinary practices and develops art projects that benefit the local community. She is currently expanding her “theatrical fields,” including what she calls “performance gesture and moving images,” and is a 2016 – 2017 Rolex Protégée, mentored by internationally acclaimed, New York-based, performance and video artist Joan Jonas.

Phan lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Monday, Nov 21st | 7pm EST
Link in bio for Zoom registration

09/29/2022

Next Monday, Sept 3rd, please join us online for a Visiting Artist Lecture with Kameelah Janan Rasheed!

7pm ET | Zoom | Link in bio
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A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed (she/they), grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning and belief formation. They are a recipient of a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, a 2022 Creative Capital Award and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. Rasheed is the author of three artist’s books: An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019), No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019), and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library, 2021). Their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, The New Inquiry, Shift Space, Active Cultures and The Believer. They are an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a Core Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture and a mentor-in-residence with NEW Inc. Rasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Image and bio courtesy of Kameelah Janan Rasheed

05/17/2022

Reception this Thursday, May 19th from 6-8pm at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Registration required for entry. Link in bio.


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We are thrilled to finally announce the opening of Ancestral Echoes, an exhibition celebrating ten years of bio art at SVA! The show begins this week, and will be on view at the SVA Gramercy Gallery until Saturday, May 28th. Pre-registration is required 24 hours in advance of your visit, so tap the link in our bio to do so! We hope to see you at the reception, May 19, 6-8PM ✨🔬🎂🔟

04/29/2022

On Monday, join us for our Spring 2022 Open Studios in-person at the BFA Fine Arts Building at the School of Visual Arts.

Fine Arts Building
335 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011

Reception: Mon, May 2nd | 6-9pm
On view: Tue, May 3 - Thur, May 5

Registration required for non-SVA visitors the day before through the Eventbrite link in bio.

Artwork shown:
Miley Huang
Sefa Ozdogan
Symia McKellar

03/21/2022

Tonight! Join us for a Visiting Artist Lecture with Susan Hapgood, Executive Director of the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City.

Susan Hapgood lived in India from 2010-14, where she was the founding director of the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai; visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and consultant to the Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai. She has a Masters of Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, received her initial professional training at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and worked as director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International for seven years prior to traveling to India. She has curated over 50 exhibitions, written approximately 70 journal articles, and written or edited books on varying topics in art: FluxAttitudes (Ghent: Imschoot Publishers, 1991, co-author), Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62 (New York: Universe Books, 1994, author), Slightly Unbalanced (New York: Independent Curators International, 2008, author), In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art (Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2011, co-editor and author), Union of the Imaginary—VOTI (Istanbul: Salt Beyoglu, 2013, co-editor and essayist, e-publication), Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art Across the Global South (New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2014, co-editor and essayist), and Early Bombay Photography (Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2015, author).

7pm EST on Zoom
Link in bio