UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
March 29 - April 13, 2025
Traces of Care questions how care is embodied and given form in the work of three artists: Janine Antoni, Hannah Levy, and Hannah Wilke. Centering human intimacy and interdependence, the exhibition urges us to ask: How do we care? Who cares? Who do we care for? What happens when there is a lack of care?
January 31 - March 16, 2025
Rubén Ortiz-Torres: Zonas de Colaboración foregrounds new directions in the artwork of Latinx artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres, known for his critical, cosmopolitan, and technically inventive visual practice that explores the cultural paradoxes of the global art world through an informed convergence of popular and avant-garde art traditions. The exhibition pays special attention to works produced collaboratively in the past five years in Los Angeles, California, and Guadalajara, Mexico.
March 23 - April 7, 2024
Rosemary Mayer: Words in Art are Signs Returned brings together works with images and text by Rosemary Mayer, an artist largely known for her fabric sculptures and public art projects. This exhibition critically reassesses the artist’s legacy by closely examining this lesser-known body of work within her practice.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
*indicates off-site exhibition organized by the Wallach Art Gallery
June 23 - September 17, 2023
Class of 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 23 - May 21, 2023
Austin Lee: Double-Rendering
March 25 - April 9, 2023
A Speculative Impulse: Art Transgressing the Archive
March 25 - April 9, 2023
Class of 2024 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 25 - April 9, 2023
Autumn Knight | Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing is Everything (wallach)
February 3 - March 12, 2023
Sin Autorización
October 21, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Dead Lecturer / distant relative
July 9 - October 2, 2022
Lizzie Zelter*
July 2022 - August 2024, Philosophy Hall
Visual Arts Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition
April 23 - May 22, 2022
A.K. Burns' Negative Space: Prepositions of the Future
March 26 - April 10, 2022
Living With Ghosts
March 26 - April 10, 2022
Visual Arts Class of 2023 First Year MFA Exhibition
March 26 - April 10, 2022
Chris Ofili: The Othello Prints
January 20 - March 12, 2022
Object Relations: Indigenous Belongings
December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022
Time and Face: Daguerreotypes to Digital Print
December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022
What Is the Use of Buddhist Art?
December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022
The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig's Sphere, the Trauma of 9/11, and the Politics of Memory
September 10 - November 13, 2021
The Protest and The Recuperation
June 12 - August 14, 2021
Class of 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 28 - May 21, 2021
AABV: Aestheticizing Anti-Black Violence—From Critique to Satire
March 31 - April 9, 2021
Narrative Thread: Gina Adams and Marie Watt
March 31 - April 9, 2021
Visual Arts Class of 2021 First Year MFA Exhibition
March 31 - April 9, 2021
*indicates off-site exhibition organized by the Wallach Art Gallery
Uptown Triennial 2020
September 24, 2020 - February 4, 2021
MODA Curates 2020: A Bottomless Silence
Spring 2020, online exhibition
MODA Curates 2020: Reframing the Passport Photo
Spring 2020, online exhibition
Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art From Algeria and Its Diaspora
October 26, 2019 - March 15, 2020
Annette Hur*
August 2019 - June 2020, Philosophy Hall
After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art
June 15 - October 6, 2019
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 28 - May 26, 2019
2019 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 30 - April 14, 2019
MODA Curates 2019: I / I CAN / I CANNOT / I CANNOT VENTURE MYSELF
March 30 - April 14, 2019
MODA Curates 2019: Into Darkness: exploring me and finding you
March 30 - April 14, 2019
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse and Beyond
October 24, 2018 - February 10, 2019
Joiri Minaya: Redecode II: La Dorada*
August 20, 2018 - June 28, 2019, Miller Theater
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
June 1 - September 23, 2018
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 21 - May 20, 2018
Daze: Perspectives in Grey Scale*
April 7 - September 29, 2018, Russ Berrie Pavilion
2018 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 24 - April 8, 2018
MODA Curates 2018: New Talent
March 23 - April 8, 2018
MODA Curates 2018: Anna Bella Geiger: Here is the Center
March 23 - April 8, 2018
Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer
January 13 - March 11, 2018
Living In America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing
September 8 - December 17, 2017
Lina Puerta: Manigua*
July 17, 2017 - June 29, 2018, Miller Theater
Maggie Goldstone: Animating our World*
September 2017 - June 2018, Philosophy Hall
Leslie Jiménez: It is Here | It is Now | I Am*
October 7, 2017 - April 6, 2018, Russ Berrie Pavilion
Kathleen Granados: Within Reach*
June 7 - September 16, 2017, Russ Berrie Pavilion
Uptown
June 2 - August 20, 2017
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 22 - May 21, 2017
Invisible Cities: MODA 2017
April 19 - May 20, 2017
2017 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 24 - April 8, 2017
Eva Nikolova: The Edifice of Memory*
February 8 - May 12, 2017, Russ Berrie Pavilion
FINESSE
January 18 - March 11, 2017
Uday K. Dhar: From Purusha to Paradise*
November 5, 2016 - February 10, 2017, Russ Berrie Pavilion
The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa
September 7 - December 10, 2016
Gina Malek: Traces*
September 2016 - June 30, 2017, Philosophy Hall
Tomo Mori: Concerto Encircling*
September 2016 - June 30, 2017, Miller Theater
Lines of Flight: MODA 2016
April 20 - June 4, 2016
2016 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 26 - April 9, 2016
Open This End: Contemporary Art From the Collection of Blake Byrne
January 20 - March 12, 2016
*indicates off-site exhibition organized by the Wallach Art Gallery
Otherwordly: Lorella Paleni*
October 15, 2015 - June 2016, Philosophy Hall
Scherezade Garcia: In Transit/Liquid Highway*
September 15, 2015 - June 2016, Miller Theatre
Rembrandt's Changing Impressions
September 9 - December 12, 2015
MODA Curates 2015: a curious blindness
April 22 - June 13, 2015
2015 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 27 - April 11, 2015
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
November 15, 2014 - March 14, 2015
Maya Hayuk: From the Chem Trails Series*
October 3, 2014 - June 2015, Miller Theatre
Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn
September 3 - November 1, 2014
MODA Curates 2014: HYPER-RESEMBLANCES
April 22 - June 7, 2014
2014 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 28 - April 12, 2014
Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902–1936
January 22 - March 15, 2014
Vargas-Suarez Universal: Vector Composition No. 1, 2013*
October 10, 2013 - June 2014, Miller Theater
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "Selves"
September 4 - December 7, 2013
Speak, Memory: MODA 2013
May 1 - June 8, 2013
2013 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 6 - 20, 2013
Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
January 23 - March 23, 2013
Robert S. Duncanson: An Antebellum African American Artist
September 5 - December 8, 2012
Cross-Time Stories
May 9 - June 9, 2012
2012 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 13 - 28, 2012
Félix Candela: 1910–2010
February 11 - March 31, 2012
Social Forces Visualized: Photography and Scientific Charity, 1900–1920
November 9 - December 17, 2011
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy Classroom
September 7 - October 22, 2011
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming
April 26 - June 11, 2011
2011 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 9 - 16, 2011
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible
January 19 - March 26, 2011
Nancy Holt: Sightlines
September 22 - December 11, 2010
Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
April 28 - June 12, 2010
2010 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 7 - 17, 2010
Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma
January 20 - March 27, 2010
The New Acropolis Museum
October 21 - December 19, 2009
Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
April 29 - June 6, 2009
2009 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 4 - 18, 2009
Modernism and Iraq
January 27 - March 28, 2009
Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj
September 17 - December 13, 2008
Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University
March 26 - June 21, 2008
Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910–1960
January 23 - March 8, 2008
Revolutions: A Century of Makonde Masquerade in Mozambique
September 18 - December 8, 2007
2007 First-Year Exhibition
April 21 - June 2, 2007
Robert Moses and the Modern City
January 31 - April 14, 2007
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York
September 27 - December 9, 2006
Lubomír Šlapeta (1908–1983) and Cestmír Šlapeta (1908–1999): Czech Architecture after Hans Scharoun
April 18 - June 10, 2006
2006 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 1 - 8, 2006
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
February 21 - March 18, 2006
Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art
January 24 - February 11, 2006
"Please, teach me..." Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning
September 28 - December 10, 2005
Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919–1935 — Selections from the Collection of Stephen Garmey
April 19 - June 11, 2005
2005 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 30 - April 9, 2005
Settlement and Sanctuary on Cyprus from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages: Views from the Columbia University Excavations at Phlamoudhi
January 20 - March 19, 2005
The Troubled Search: The Work of Max Abramovitz
September 15 - December 11, 2004
Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration
April 13 - June 12, 2004
2004 First-Year MFA Exhibition
March 26 - April 4, 2004
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art
January 20 - March 20, 2004
Reflection: Seven Years in Print The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
September 23 - December 13, 2003
Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography
April 30 - June 21, 2003
2003 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 10 - April 19, 2003
Jean Fautrier: 1898–1964
January 29 - March 29, 2003
Roger Ferri: Architectural Visionary
October 9 - December 21, 2002
Paris as Gameboard: Man Ray's Atgets
April 24 - June 15, 2002
The Print in Italy: 1550–1620
February, 6 - March 30, 2002
Arte Povera: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection
October 3 - December 8, 2001
Louise Bourgeois: Illustrated Books
April 24 - June 9, 2001
Percival Goodman: Architect, Teacher, Planner
February 6 - March 31, 2001
Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
October 10 - December 16, 2000
2000 First-Year MFA Exhibition
April 26 - June 3, 2000
Gateway to Metropolis: New York's Pennsylvania Stations
February 2 - April 1, 2000
Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents
October 6 - December 11, 1999
1999 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 14 - June 5, 1999
The Inventive Hand: Selections of Work by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
January 27 - March 20, 1999
Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy
September 16 - November 21, 1998
Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Contemporary China
April 14 - June 6, 1998
The Visual Front: A Collection of Spanish Civil War Posters
February 3 - March 28, 1998
Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights
October 8, 1997 - January 17, 1998
26 Positons: MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 23 - May 31, 1997
Robert Motherwell on Paper
January 29 - March 29, 1997
Apostles in England, Sir James Thornhill & the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons
October 15 - December 21, 1996
The Old World Builds the New: The Guastavino Company and the Technology of the Catalan Vault, 1885–1962
April 30 - June 15, 1996
Kōbō Abé as Photographer
April 8 - 21, 1996
Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design, 1917–1937
February 7 - March 30, 1996
The Post–Pre–Rephaelite Print
October 11 - December 15, 1995
6 Artists: New Faculty from Visual Arts
March 29 - June 3, 1995
Fields of Vision: The art of Sotho Habitation
October 19 - December 17, 1994
Unfaded Pageant: Edwin Austin Abbey's Shakespearean Subjects
April 13 - June 4, 1994
Mark Rothko: The Spirit of Myth
February 2 - March 19, 1994
Picturing the White City: Architectural Photography from the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
November 17 - January 22, 1994
Goya's Caprichos from the Brooklyn Museum
September 15 - November 7, 1993
"O Soul, Come Back!": The World of the Han Dynasty Tomb
March 24 - June 5, 1993
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture
November 11, 1992 - January 15, 1993
BCCDHHHJKNPPRSSW: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
September 16 - October 31, 1992
Actors, Courtesans, and Famous Vistas: Japanese Art From Columbia Collections
April 29 - June 12, 1992
Victorian Pleasures: The Liman Collection of 19th-Century American Board and Table Top Games
November 13, 1991 - January 25, 1992
Robert Smithson Unearthed: Works on Paper, 1957–1973
September 11 - October 26, 1991
New Art 1991: MFA Exhibition
May 15 - June 22, 1991
Contemporary Architectural Drawings: Donations to the Avery Library Centennial Drawings Archive
April 3 - May 4, 1991
Artists of The Nation: An exhibition celebrating the 125th Anniversary of The Nation Magazine
November 15, 1990 - January 26, 1991
Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990s
September 14 - November 14, 1990
New Art: MFA Exhibition
May 15 - June 23, 1990
Julius S. Held: Drawings from His Collection
April 11 - May 5, 1990
Love Flight of a Pink Candy Heart: Paintings by Florine Stettheimer from the Columbia University Collection
February 16 - March 31, 1990
Terra Firma: Land and Landscape in Art of the 1980s
October 18 - December 2, 1989
Graphic Evolutions: The Print Series of Francisco Goya
February 2 - March 18, 1989
Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolors, 1873–1875
October 19 - December 3, 1988
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera
March 24 - May 7, 1988
Jim Parker: The Abstract Works
February 20 - March 12, 1988
SIMILIA/DISSIMILIA
December 4, 1987 - January 30, 1988
Meyer Shapiro: Works of Art 1919–1979
April 18 - May 23, 1986
Inaugural Exhibition: Works from Columbia University Collections
April 4, 1986