DIAP - Digital & Interdisciplinary Arts Practice MFA at CCNY

Please join us on Wednesday, April 29th, for Artist and Educator Alicia Grullón’s lecture at the DIAP MFA Program as part of the “Theory in Practice” seminar class held by Independent Curator and CCNY Adjunct Lecturer .facente

Date: April 29th
Time: 6:30 PM
The event is free and open to the public
Location: DIAP Studio - Shepard Hall room 408
Entrance to the building is on the Eastside of Convent Ave at the corner of 140th Street.

Bio
Alicia Grullón is a US-born Dominican artist, whose work critiques the politics of presence in political, environmental, and social spheres through image-making, performance, and social practice. At the core of her practice is a focus on mapping and exploring the metaphorical and emblematic connections between place and our bodies. She has exhibited and performed nationally and abroad and is a recipient of numerous awards including Creative Time’s Research and Development Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Mellon Initiative Community Fellowship at the New School and the Colene Brown Art Prize, among others. Alicia was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in fine arts from Moore College of Art and Design in 2021. She has contributed to Routledge publications on social practice and feminism as well as essays on Verso Books blog, the LatinX Project and Hyperallergic. Alicia is a Bronx Aim alum 2011. She is based in the Bronx where she grew up. Happenings: https://linktr.ee/aliciagrullon

contemporaryart diap guestlecture

HARNESS FROM HERE
Luiz Bicalho, DIAP graduate student

The exhibition will be held at
Colin Chase Gallery - CCNY Compton Goethals Hall
March 23- 27, 2026

Reception March 26th, 5:30 - 7pm
Free and open to the public. All are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

Apply to the CCNY Art MFA!

A two-year, interdisciplinary program with an intimate cohort, individual studio spaces, generous scholarships, and paid assistant positions available. 

Apply through the City College Art or DIAP MFA website (link in bio).

Deadline: April 1, 2026

Questions? Reach out to program directors:

Carl Fudge ([email protected])
Nassem Navab ([email protected])

Join us this Thursday, Dec 18 at 6:30 PM for an MFA Art Experimental Video screening at the Maysles Documentary Center.
Come see a selection of graduate work! Open to the public.

Lingering Ghosts is the latest group show to hit the Collin Chase gallery on the first floor of Compton Goethals Hall, City College of New York. The group show hosted by the MFA second-year students is presenting a wide range of media exploring the themes of loss and remembrance.

The show will be open from October 15th to the 25th with the opening reception this Thursday October 16th at 5 pm

Interfaced is a duo exhibition from two second year DIAP students, Megan Lewis and Luiz Bicalho. In play, they explore digital intervention, American context, privacy, and multimedia practices.

An opening reception will be held September 4th at 5:30pm with light snacks and drinks.

Congratulations to our DIAP MFA grads!!
It’s been such a joy to watch you both grow into your voices and visions 🌱✨🎉🎓

Show Up! ▪️🟦🔸DIAP Open Studios this Thursday, May 15th from 5-7pm! CCNY, Shepard Hall 408

Please join us on Tuesday, April 29th when Professor Nizan Shaked ( ) will give a lecture to the DIAP MFA Program as part of the “Theory in Practice” seminar class held by Independent Curator and CCNY Adjunct Lecturer .facente
Date: April 29
Time: 6:15 - 7:45PM
The event is free and open to the public
Location: Zoom (https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85365159761?pwd=8A2JYotrShNK0FPH4hzaaQtEbFMIvX.1)
Meeting ID: 853 6515 9761
Passcode: 736591

Nizan Shaked discusses her next project. Art Against the System, which examines the practices of artists and collectives that surgically intervene into state structure to offer expandable models, or affect visible political change. Using aesthetic analysis and manipulating form, these artists develop strategies that can be applied on a social scale. Addressing socially-engaged, participatory, educational, dialogic, or collaborative art, this talk will identify how anti-system artists work on changing forms of social relations such as value, property, rent, or wages, as well as hierarchies inscribed into the law and enacted by law enforcement.

Bio
Nizan Shaked is professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University Long Beach. She is the author of The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) and Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Her forthcoming book Art Against the System is supported by a 2024 Andy Warhol Art Writers Grant. Select writing has also appeared in the edited collections Adrian Piper: A Reader (MoMA, 2018), The Routledge Companion to African American Art History (2019), and The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History (2025).