PARSONS FINE ARTS

Ranu Mukherjee is an artist who makes hybrid work in moving image, painting and installation to build new imaginative capacities. She is guided by the forces…

Guan Xiao, born in 1983, currently works and lives in Beijing. The art practice of Guan Xiao mainly focuses on sculpture, video, and installations. Through…

Michael Rakowitz is an artist living and working in Chicago. Concerned with history and current events, he uses his work to explore pressing political and social issues…

Abigail DeVille was born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works. Maintaining a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places, DeVille creates…

A symbiotic organism in its own right, Anicka Yi’s work fuses multi-sensory experience with synthetic and evolutionary biology to form lush bio-fictional landscapes. Utilizing a…

Jesper Just (born 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish artist based in New York. He uses film technology and installation strategies as vehicles to…

Theresa Chromati (b. 1992) has garnered critical and institutional attention for figurative paintings that burst with color and texture as they deploy abstraction to explore…

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol creates durational group performances as public portraits of peoples and places that are haunted by the past, face challenging issues at…

Los Angeles-based Guadalupe Rosales (b. 1980,  CA) is the founder and operator of Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz, two digital archives  accessible through Instagram….

Hồng-Ân Trương is an artist who uses photography, video, and sound to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. She was awarded a Guggenheim…

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, professor at MIT, and the founder and director of the Poetic Justice group at MIT Media Lab. Through both his…

Dario Robleto is a transdisciplinary artist, citizen-scientist, researcher, writer and teacher based in Houston, Texas. Throughout his twenty-year career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous,…

Steffani Jemison lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her videos, sculptures, installations, and performances have been presented in solo exhibitions at De Appel, Stedelijk…

Jes Fan is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, China. He is the recipient of various fellowships such as the…

David Reed is a Californian who lives and works in New York. His exhibition Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975, was curated by Katy Siegel and…

Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group and institutional behavior. He has exhibited at SFMoMA; Mercosul…

Indira Allegra is re-imagining what a memorial can feel like, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function. Deeply informed by…

Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage,…

Kerry Downey is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Downey’s work explores relationality through the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access…

Alison O’Daniel has exhibited internationally including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Art…

Jean Shin is recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community engagement. Her work has been widely…

Adonis Volanakis is a multidisciplinary visual/ performance artist based in Athens, Greece. Best known for his poetic, socially-engaged practice addressing women’s cultural and historical legacies,…

Dean Erdmann is a desert-raised, Los Angeles-based artist. Their work addresses the politics of place, class, and the body. Erdmann uses still and moving images…

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a Brooklyn, NY composer, musician and artist. She produces solo albums, live performances and film/art soundtracks and frequently collaborates…

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are multidisciplinary artists whose projects investigate contemporary music and sound, the electromagnetic spectrum, dissent and public fora. Their work has…

“I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School” Book launch with readings and performances at three campus…

Tiffany Chung is internationally noted for her research-based multi-media installations and meticulously detailed cartographic works that examine conflict, migration, urban transformation and environmental impact in…

Javier Téllez is a New York-based artist originally from Venezuela. His film installations reflect a sustained interest in bringing peripheral communities and invisible situations to…

Tschabalala Self is a painter from Harlem, New York City. She received her BA from Bard College in 2012 and her MFA from the Yale…

Diamond Stingily is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and poet originally from Chicago, IL. Working across disciplines with an emphasis on sculpture and installation, she uses…

Pieter Schoolwerth is a painter, filmmaker, and musician who lives and works in New York. Schoolwerth’s ‘painting in the last instance’ captures invisible flows of…

Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue interested in anarco-collectivism, theater, law and urban studies. She organizes workshops, produces publications and exhibition work focused on…

Tajima’s recent work invokes technologies developed to control and affect the body, focusing on techniques that shape bodily experience of space and time in a…

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration and in response to timely and…

Meleko Mokgosi is an artist and assistant professor of practice at New York University. He received his BA from Williams College in 2007 and participated…

Salman Toor’s figurative paintings vary in scale and style, ranging in subject from Art History, Queer Culture, and Post-Colonialism. Toor has had several solo exhibitions…

Hakan Topal is a new media artist living and working in Brooklyn. He is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College and has…

Elana Herzog uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality and entropy, pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion. Her current focus is on the global…

Patricia Cronin is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of gender, sexuality and social justice and has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and…

Natalie Bookchin is an artist and filmmaker whose work exposes social realities that lie beneath the surface of life lived under the glare and the…

Carolyn Lazard is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working across video, sound, installation and performance. Their practice explores the aesthetic and political dimensions of consent,…

Taryn Simon works with photography, sculpture, text, sound, and performance to make visible the contours of power and authority hidden within familiar systems and organizations….

Liz Collins surrounds the viewer in vibrating color fields to explore the boundaries between painting, fiber arts and installation. She has had solo exhibitions at…

Lucy Kim is a Boston-based visual artist using mold-making and casting as a sculptural surrogate for photography. By combining her sculptural process with painting, her…

William Villalongo is a Brooklyn-based artist whose figures oscilate between magic and the factualness of being in a body, desire and discord. Visibility and invisibility…

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a North Philadelphia-based visual artist, filmmaker, and curator who explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and…

Cullen Washington Jr. utilizes the grid to communicate humanity and inter-connectedness. He describes his collage abstract paintings as “non-representational fields of activity.” Venues include: The…

Katja Eydel is a Berlin-based artist and Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Working primarily with the medium of photography, her…

Jackson Polys is an artist from Tlingit territory, living and working between what are currently called Alaska and New York. His work examines negotiations toward…

Penelope Umbrico’s multi-disciplinary installations utilize search engines, web platforms, consumer software applications, and the physical materials of technology to explore the production and consumption of…

Carlos Motta’s multi-disciplinary work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Recent shows include…

E.V. Day’s work explores themes of sexuality and humor while employing gravity-defying suspension techniques. By manipulating iconic imagery from popular culture, Day re-animates the recognizable…

Jamian Juliano-Villani is an artist living in Brooklyn. Her paintings are an amalgamation of references that span centuries  from Mount Vesuvius to Paul Wall. She has…

Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist whose work is concerned with queer and trans community and community practices. Her films and artworks…

Ajay Kurian is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY who is known for his work with eclectic materials–gold-plated ostrich eggs, gummy bears, and vaporizers –…

Adriane Colburn’s research-based sculptural installations investigate complex relationships between human infrastructure, earth systems, technology and the natural world. She has participated in scientific expeditions in…

Carlos Motta’s multi-disciplinary work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Recent solo exhibitions…

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b.1985, East Palo Alto, CA) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and former public high school teacher from East Palo Alto, CA….

Heather Hart, based in New York, is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the power in thresholds, questioning dominant narratives and creating alternatives to them through viewer…

Derrick Adams works in performance, video, sound, textile/paper-based collage, and multimedia sculpture. His award-winning practice is rooted in the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and…

Mernet Larsen is known for her geometric, perspectivally skewed paintings in which ordinary situations become disquieting, unfamiliar. She has exhibited at the National Museum of…

Sistar S’pacific aka Rosanna Raymond, an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene as a long-standing member of the art collective the Pacific Sisters, and…

Mark Dion’s work examines how dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Creating works that question the…

Cameron Rowland was born in 1988 in Philadelphia and received a BA from Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Rowland lives and works in Queens. Rowland has had solo exhibitions…

Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China, in 1955. He earned his B.A. degree from the printmaking department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts…

Zachary Fabri is an artist working in video, photography, sculpture, and performance. His practice looks at concerns surrounding cultural commodification, gentrification, and public space. He…

Nicole Eisenman is a painter and sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work was the subject of a 2016 mid-career retrospective “Al-Ugh-Ories”…

Sheila Pepe is a cross-disciplinary artist employing conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to address feminist and class issues. Solo exhibitions include the Smith College Museum of…

Yamini Nayar’s (US/India) work intersects photography, sculpture and the language of architecture to foreground questions about the built environment and its psychological and ​social dimensions….

Maria Thereza Alvez, recipient of the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016-18, explores notions of colonialism, commerce, ecology, and migration by following…

  For over two decades, Alfredo Jaar’s work has focused on photography as political witness. Born in Chile, he has traveled extensively to investigate issues…

Paul Pfeiffer’s work in the mediums of installation, photography, and video often uses extant imagery as an occasion to plumb the depths of contemporary culture,…

Public urban space is increasingly shaped by the display of visual information. Over the last decade alone, modes of advertising have developed alongside technological advances…

Carrie Yamaoka is a New York-based visual artist working in the expanded field of painting. Exhibiting widely in the US and Europe since the 1980s,…

Will Rawls is a writer, choreographer and performer. Rawls creates solo and group works that unravel and reconfigure around the idea of self and becoming….

Leidy Churchman (b. 1979) lives and works in New York. His work is currently on view in Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum…

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (b.1983) work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice probes a contemporary landscape…

Bo Zheng (born in Beijing, 1974; lives and works in Hong Kong) is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art….

Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to…

Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory. Through her art she conveys…

Leonardo Drew was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida, and he grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His natural talent and passion for art was recognized…

Torkwase Dyson works through multiple forms and describes herself as a painter who uses the language of architecture and minimal geometric abstraction to generate descriptive…

Jonathan VanDyke is a visual artist based in New York City working in the expanded field of painting. Recent solo exhibitions have appeared at 1/9unosunove…

David Shrigley’s distinctive comedic tone draws on everyday situations and human interactions to create self-reflexive artworks. While best known for his simple and unique drawing…

  Toyin Ojih Odutola is a visual artist who creates drawings utilizing a variety of media. With any given tool, she emphasizes how an image…

Josh Kline (b. 1979, Philadelphia, USA) lives and works in New York. Kline creates artworks and exhibitions that consider the ways in which our humanity…

Born in Taiwan in 1964 and currently living in New York City and Paris, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of…

Rina Banerjee’s work investigates the possibilities of cultural identity: its relics, how we identify ourselves, and how that perception changes through the eyes of others….

Often working in and with the public realm, artists Heather and Ivan Morison intertwine art, architecture, and theatre in their dynamic collaborative practice, to create…

Nayland Blake is an artist, educator and instigator. Interracial desire, same-sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake’s sculptures, drawings, performances…

Milagros de la Torre’s practice involves extensive research in projects centered in the analysis of image language, the individual and violence. Working with the photographic…

Paulina Olowska (b. 1976, Gdansk, Poland) does not limit her practice to any one medium. Instead she works in painting, sculpture, neon and ceramics as…

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. Their staged films and film installations often start with a song, a…

Kate Gilmore is a performance, video and installation artist. She is the sole protagonist in her videos, in which she attempts to conquer self-constructed obstacles….

Guido Van der Werve pursued studies in industrial design, archaeology, music composition, and Russian language before beginning to create his first video documented performances around 2000….

Co-sponsored by the Culture and Media Department at Eugene Lang College and The School of Media Studies at The New School. With thanks to Flaherty…

Co-sponsored by Public Books, Office of the Dean of Humanities, Columbia University, Columbia Global Center | Rio de Janeiro, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, Parsons…

Dannielle Tegeder’s work explores systems in drawing, painting, installation, sound, and animation. Employing strategies connected to Post-Minimalism and 20th Century abstraction, she often utilizes mathematical,…

Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound through technology to interrogate the ownership of sound, explore oral languages as social currency, deconstruct preconceived ideas…

Marc Handelman works in painting, film/video, installation, and book arts. His uncanny large scale paintings, landscapes and abstract images often serve as frameworks for pathologies…

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have been collaborating since 1995. Based in British Columbia, their immersive multimedia works create multisensory experiences which draw the…

L.J. Roberts is an artist and critical writer whose practice explores the intersections of feminist, queer and trans politics, activism, the AIDS epidemic, collective action,…

Nina Katchadourian’s often humorous conceptual works explore themes of mapping, translation and public space through a range of media, including photography, installation, video, sound-based work…

Dawood works across film, painting and sculpture to interrogate perception, the politics of place, and structures of belief. His projects operate between the real and…

Taking an object-based approach to sculpture, installations and video, Leigh’s work is informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance. Her…

R.H. Quaytman is best known for her sumptuous and philosophical painting installations that use abstract and photographic elements. She generates her work through a systematic,…

Working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance, Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography,…

Interrogating contemporary legacies of colonialism that have impacted the lives of Aboriginal peoples in his homeland of Australia, Tony Albert mines popular culture imagery and…

Co-sponsored by Public Art Fund and Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Thomas’s conceptually-based practice addresses the relationships between identity, media, and popular culture…

Working through varied forms of sculpture, photography, video and performance, Mattingly focuses on environmental, economic and political change. Her works include spherical living-systems incorporating rainwater…

This event will include a drink reception in the Event Cafe in the lower level of the University Center at 7pm, and will then move…

Co-sponsored by the Public Art Fund and Vera List Center for Art & Politics, Banner will present an overview of her work, which is often…

Sikander’s practice takes Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of departure, challenging its strict formal tropes as well as its medium-based restrictions by experimenting with…

Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects….

Martin Creed (b. 1968, Wakefield, England) lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions of his work have been recently presented at the Hayward Gallery, London…

B. Wurtz was born in Pasadena, California and since 1985 has lived and worked in New York City. He received a BA from the University…

Julia Scher (born 1954, Hollywood) is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most…

Jacolby Satterwhite’s video works bring together 3-D animation, drawings, and live performance to construct utopian digital worlds. Within this uncharted digital architecture, Satterwhite explores personal…

Liz Magic Laser is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University (2003) and an MFA from Columbia…

Cheryl Dunye is producer, cinema artist, academic, and activist. She directed the films MOMMY IS COMING (2012), THE OWLS (2010), MY BABY’S DADDY (2004), STRANGER…

Born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1977, Shadi Habib Allah received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2003 and an MFA from…

Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New York in 1968. The precision with which Ali creates her small, figurative, gouache paintings on paper is such…

Ei Arakawa is based in New York since 1998. By almost always working collaboratively, Ei Arakawa’s work “not only destabilizes the line between one artist…

Matthew Buckingham was born in Nevada, Iowa, and currently lives in New York City. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, received a BA…

Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where she currently lives and works. Her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations are inspired by…

Jeff Koons is internationally recognized as one of the most significant and influential artists working today. For the past 35 years he has examined the…

Basim Magdy was born in Assiut, Egypt in 1977. He currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland and Cairo. His work has recently appeared group…

Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. For three decades he has made work that encourages viewers…

Sean Lowry is a Sydney-based artist, musician and writer. Lowry holds a PhD in Visual Arts from The University of Sydney and teaches in the…

Ken Lum is an artist born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He presently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he is a Professor in the School…

Abraham Cruzvillegas is one of the most important conceptual artists of his generation to come from the vibrant art scene in Mexico City. For his…

Parsons Fine Arts program is pleased to announce the inaugural alumni visiting artists series MOMENTUM. Featuring exchange student alumni, and emerging fine arts visiting artist…

Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is…

Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and an MFA from the…

Sam Falls creates sculptures, fabric works, and paintings that combine his interest in the history of minimalist sculpture with an experimentation of process and materials….

Lucy Raven is an artist based in New York. She works primarily with animation and the moving image. Her movies and installations have been shown…

Rochelle Feinstein’s works often weave together her own subjectivity with historical and vernacular associations, an expansive painting lexicon, and the mythologies and matter of popular…

Brooklyn-based, artist and writer Jill Magid forms intimate relationships with systems of power, including police, military, secret service, corporations, and CCTV surveillance. For Magid, power…

Rashaad Newsome’s work is hinged on the sampling and the recontextualizing, of contemporary cultural elements in traditional frameworks. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he…

Karin Sander (born in 1957), lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland). Working with installation, sculpture, photography, new technologies and other media, her…

Trevor Paglen’s work deliberately blurs lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret…

Tatiana Trouvé (b. 1968, Cosenza, Italy) lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Double Bind at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); 4 Between…

Born in Enugu Nigeria, lives and works in Philadelphia/New York. Odili Donald Odita received an MFA from Bennington College, Vermont (1990), BFA (with Distinction, Excellence…

Born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1977, received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2003 and an MFA from Columbia University in…

Ashley Hunt uses video, photography and writing to engage the ideas of social movements, modes of learning and public speech. His work is often concerned…

An artist whose work creates an intersection between space, light, architecture, science fiction and theephemeral, Kira Lynn Harris is known primarily for her large scale…

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the…

Anoka Faruqee is a painter who lives and works in New Haven, and Brooklyn. She has exhibited in the US and abroad, including the PS1…

Katerina Grosse, born 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, lives and works in Berlin / 2000 – 2010 Professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee / since Oct. 2010 Professor…

In her work, Katrin Sigurdardóttir explores the way physical structures and boundaries define our perception. Through unexpected shifts in scale, she examines distance and memory…

Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary…

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, born in 1939 in Denver, Colorado, is “madly in love” with the public domain and public culture and, as a result, nearly…

Named one of the top 50 filmmakers, Johan Grimonprez’s award winning films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) and Double Take (2009). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance,…

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, editor, and writer who works both independently and in temporary and enduring collaborative constellations. She often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as…

Paula Hayes (born 1958 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American visual artist and designer who works with sculpture, drawing, installation art, botany, and landscape design….

WU TSANG is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His artworks and performances have been presented at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and New Museum…

Hans Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936. He has lived in New York since 1965. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his…

Jack Whitten (b.1939) began his earliest experiments in painting during the 1960s by creating dynamic works inspired by Abstract Expressionism. Born and raised in Bessemer,…

Martin Kersels was born in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA for both his undergraduate and graduate educations, receiving a BA in art in 1984 and…

Dolores Zinny (born 1968) is part of the collaborative duo Zinny Maidagan. She studied Fine Arts at the UNR of Rosario and attended the Whitney…

Nayland Blake is an artist, writer and educator. Born in New York Hospital in 1960, he currently resides in Brooklyn. He is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery,…

Pedro Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. He divides his time between Durham (NC), where he teaches art, art theory, and visual studies at Duke…

Fia Backström’s work is based in questions on collective formation and the fabric of the social bond, as worked through image production, pedagogical models, and…