Visual Arts MFA

Class of 2021 First Year MFA Exhibition

March 27 - April 10, 2021
Curated by Carmen Hermo

Exhibition Information
The Wallach Art Gallery, together with Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program, presents the Class of 2021’s First Year MFA Exhibition. This exhibition encompasses work by the 23 artists who completed their first year of the Visual Arts MFA Program in 2020. Due to COVID-19 their in-person exhibition was postponed until this Spring.

Carmen Hermo is the Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She curated Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making (2017), Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? (2020), formed part of the Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019) curatorial collective, and co-organized Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2018) and the Brooklyn presentation of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018) among other exhibitions. Previously, Carmen was Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. Carmen received her BA in Art History and English from the University of Richmond and her MA in Art History from Hunter College.

Presenting Artists

Sound Artists

Avishag Cohen Rodrigues
Tim Kwasny
Yixuan Shao

Visual Artists

Venue
Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 1002
(enter on 125th Street, west of Broadway)

Installation Views