EXHIBITIONS

February 2 - March 10, 2024

This first solo exhibition of work by Angela Su in North America presents a ten-year survey of the artist's work.

March 23 - April 7, 2024

The photographic series The Americans, 2000-2007 by New Delhi-based photographer Gauri Gill (b. 1970), shot in rural towns and metropolitan cities around the United States, probes the constant metamorphosis of South Asians’ American identity.

March 23 - April 7, 2024

Words in Art are Signs Returned brings together a selection of works with images and text by Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014), 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.

June 21 - September 15, 2024

Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood brings together historical examples and contemporary positions of art, visual culture, and child study to engage in a history of counter-cultural protest and post-colonial critique. From the animated energy of the juvenile subject to play as world-making, the exhibition foregrounds the child as an agent of social change.

October 4, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and
environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry
along the Hudson estuary.

June 23 - September 17, 2023

The third edition of the Uptown Triennial presents the work of artists of Upper Manhattan and beyond representative of the history, culture and contemporary issues of Harlem in the visual arts, media and sound.

April 23 - May 21, 2023

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

July 2022 - June 2023
Offsite at Philosophy Hall

Lizzie Zelter, Columbia University MFA '22, presents paintings that confound a sense of spatial continuity by distorting specific architectural surfaces through the use of close range framing devices.

March 25 - April 9, 2023

This solo exhibition of New York-based artist Austin Lee (b. 1983), explores the aesthetic possibilities of combining computer-generated imagery and airbrushing.

March 25 - April 9, 2023

This exhibition examines the work of three contemporary artists, Firelei Báez, Gala Porras-Kim, and Stephanie Syjuco, who use speculative strategies to defy and transcend the logics of archives.

March 25 - April 9, 2023

This exhibition features work by the artists who are completing their first year of the MFA Program in Visual Arts and Sound Arts is presented in collaboration with The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program.

February 3 - March 12, 2023

An experimental and multi-disciplinary project, Autumn Knight's Nothing #26 explores and reflects on the Italian phrase, dolce far niente, or the sweetness of doing nothing, through the lens of Black exhaustion, labor, and expectation that pairs this sweetness with the constant work involved in manifesting liberation.

October 21, 2022 - January 15, 2023

Sin Autorización explores the political and intellectual context of the independent artistic scene in Cuba that emerged around 2016, and its many changes in the years following.

July 9 - October 1, 2022

Focusing on Asian American and African American modern visual and literary artists, this exhibition features works produced from the 1960s through the 1980s.

April 22 - May 23, 2022

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

March 26 - April 10, 2022

A.K. Burns is an American contemporary artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice explores systems of value, and identity.

March 26 - April 10, 2022

An exploration into the ways the unresolved traumas of Africa’s colonial past and its unfulfilled project of decolonization continue to haunt its present. 

March 26 - April 10, 2022

First-Year MFA students in Columbia University's Visual Arts program present their work

January 20 - March 12, 2022

Chris Ofili's twelve Othello prints are presented in conjunction with Such Sweet Thunder—Columbia’s year-long festival of concerts, dramatic presentations, and lectures centering on Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Shakespeare-inspired jazz suite. 

December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022

A selection of Native American art and cultural heritage objects held in the Collection of Art Properties at Columbia University are paired with works by four contemporary Indigenous women artists—Wendy Red Star, Skawennati, Dakota Mace, and Sonya Kelliher-Combs—from these same tribal nations that the historic objects come from. 

December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022

Arranged in four thematic sections—time and technology, face, innocence, and fame—the exhibition presents formal portraits alongside figurative subjects in photojournalism and documentary photography, with over 100 examples of works dating from the origins of photography in the 1840s to today. 

December 4, 2021 - March 12, 2022

An exhibition of sculptures, stelae, paintings, texts, and ritual implements from ancient Gandhara (Pakistan/India), Nepal, Tibet, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia drawn from the Buddhist objects in the Collection of Art Properties housed at Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library