Department of Art and Art Professions

Art and Art Professions


Sister by Sue De Beer, single channel video, 2009
Sue De Beer is the Co-Director of the MFA Program and
Director of the Sculpture area

Located in New York's legendary East Village, NYU Steinhardt's Department of Art and Art Professions is closely tied to the international art world in all its dimensions. The department's interdisciplinary approach to art, with its commitment to autonomy and experimentation as well as research, collaboration, and community practice, underscores the central role of visual art within contemporary culture. More

Featured Events




NYU Venice 1974-2011
artists and angiola churchill
An exhibition to celebrate Venice Alumni & the major contributions and dedication of Dr. Angiola Churchill.
On view at 80WSE from 5/24-6/9.

Art and Psyche in the City
July 19-22
Conference Program & Registration
Co-sponsored by NYUSteinhardt Departments of Art & Art Professions and Applied Psychology.
 

 




Students


Hannah Flegelman,  MA Visual Arts Administration & Melissa Huber, MA Costume Studies, are recipients of the Steinhardt Research/Creative Project Award for 2012.

LICHT MEHR LICHT, featuring work by MFA & BFA students who studied in Berln: Kat Bauer, Camille Beinhorn, Hilary Go, Mary Parker Jessup, Deirdre Nolan, Sebastian Pinaud, Alice Wang, & Elliot Wright. On view thru 5/12 at NYU Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews.

MFA Thesis Exhibitions will be on view at 80WSE gallery.  More information.

Student exhibition archive:
Rosenberg Gallery
The Commons

Faculty


IMPOSSIBLE COLLISIONS, work by John Torreano, exhibited at Feature Inc. in NYC thru 4/22.

Kathe Burkhart is interviewed in Pas Un Autre.

Sue de Beer, short-film featured online for W Magazine.

Trisha Donnelly has been named as one of six finalists for the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum.

Judith Schwartz will be one of four recipients awarded the Distinguished Craft Educator Award from the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Claudia Joskowicz has been chosen for a summer residency with VIDEOBRASIL.

Alumni


CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, including work by Afruz Amighi, MFA, on view at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC thru Sept 3. (above detail: Fanaa, '11)

AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, the first feature-length film directed and written by Terence Nance, MFA, premiered at Sundance 2012 and featured at other festivals.
 
JOHN CAGE 33 1/3 - PERFORMED BY AUDIENCE, a Celebration of the Centenary of the Composer's Birth, curated by Jade Dellinger, MA Arts Administration, on view at the Tampa Museum of Art thru May 6.
 
Paola Morsiani, MA Visual Arts Administration, has been appointed the director of the Neuberger Museum of Art of the State University of New York at Purchase.

JEFF COLD BEER, work by Borna Sammak, BFA on view at Jasmin Tsou's, BFA,  JTT gallery thru June 10.