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Student Experience

MFA in Studio Art

MFA Exhibitions and Studios

MFA Exhibitions

Students have the opportunity to exhibit their work during Open Studios as well as in solo installations and group shows at the Art Department’s 80WSE Gallery.

View a full list of department exhibitions and events.

MFA Facilities

MFAs have private studios and access to facilities for sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, ceramics, metalsmithing, sewing, photography, fabrication, and digital printing.

Learn more about NYU studio facilities.

MFA Studios

This six story Beaux Arts building at 34 Stuyvesant Street in the East Village houses all of the Art Department's studios, shops, labs, and studios, as well as classrooms, exhibition spaces, and faculty offices.

All MFA students get 24/7 access to private studios located on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floors of the Barney Building.

Sculpture on gallery walls

TV with image of face and mouth in the dark with headphones on wall.

Painting in gallery on floor. Colorful and abstract.

Exhibition installation view with paintings and wood sculpture.

Installation of TV screens with headphones.

Exhibition installation view with paintings and wood sculpture.

Painting of light post and tree.

Work in gallery.

Sculpture on gallery walls

TV with image of face and mouth in the dark with headphones on wall.

Visiting Artist Lectures

Every year, our MFA students organize a series of Visiting Artist Lectures.

2024–25 artists include Erin M. Riley, Jon Kessler, Emma Webster, Naudline Pierre, Peter Nadin, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Sandra Volny, Mary Mattingly, B.Wurtz, Alissa Bennett and Danica Lundy.

View a full list of department exhibitions and events.

Current Students

Class of 2025

Subhabrata Banerjee
Lizzy Choi
Finley Doyle
Ryan Lee
Chloe Mosbacher
Wyatt Nelson
Nick O'Connell
Juyeon Park
Poojitha Reddy Pullalarevu

Class of 2026

Ariel Dizon Barish
Christopher Chan
Mélanie Dumas
Nicholas (Nick) Koby
Michalina (Misia) Lerska
Richard Medina
Fan Qi
Roselynn Sadaghiani
Mario Saponaro
Brooke Schneider

Graduates

2024 Graduates

Zeppelin Dufour
Samuel Alexander Forest
Robin Gammons
Ellen Hersey
Forrest Knight
Artemis Kotioni
Paula Persiani
Ruoxin Sun
Virgil Warren
Zhao Ziyi

2023 Graduates

Lizzy Chemel
Neil Flowers
Xingzi Gu
David Vades Joseph
Megan Nugroho
Maria C Scrudato
Sam Ticknor

2022 Graduates

Daniel Chase
Arctica Delancey
Cecile Hirchler
Soel Kwun
Hugo (Guo) Yu

2021 Graduates

Anna Ambrose
Birdie Kushner
Cindy Conrad
Lloyd Foster
Nathan Friedman
Jordan Holm
Kristín Ríkharðsdóttir
Masamitsu Shigeta
Marian Williams

2020 Graduates

Lauren Ball
James Borges
Victoire Bourgois
Riley Dunbar
Michael M.Y. Lee
Jazmín López
Robbie McDonald
Raisa Nosova Dubno
Lidija Ristic
Jesse Thompson

2019 Graduates

Dylan Cameron
Vincent CY Chen
Ned Shalanski
Jessica Sinks
Blaine Spesak
Oakley Tapola
Thomas Tomczak
Thomas Ray Willis
Virginia Yearick
Julie Yeo

2018 Graduates

Jerry J. Adams
Omer Ben-Zvi
Biraaj Dodiya
Nick Doty
Alex Heffesse
Jessica Lancaster
Luca Molnar
Komikka Patton
Lara Saget
Erin Schiller

2017 Graduates

Carly Burnell
Stephen Gurtowski
Billy Jacobs
Harry Kleeman
Chris Albert Lee
Caitlyn McLaughlin
Kaushani Patel
Marz Saffore
Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip
Gabrielle Vitollo

2016 Graduates

Young Min Choi
Jonathan Clark
Robin Crookall
Diana Drake
Kurtis Greene
Bonnie Lane
Sarah Sala Moore
Tibi Tibi Neuspiel
Aubrey Saget
Shana Sloane Solley
Michael Stamm

2015 Graduates

Sofi E. Brazzeal
Nickolas Calabrese
Gregory Carideo
Candice Chu
Emily Clayton
Mary Corman
Xi Guo
Lauren Klenow
Zach Osif
Kira Shewfelt
Andrea Stern

2014 Graduates

Jordan Albaugh
Azi Amiri
Nathaniel Axel
Cheryl Bentley
Don Edler
Samantha Fretwell
Megha Mattoo
Tyson Robertson
Yi Xin Tong

2013 Graduates

Sarah Feehily
David Flaugher
Michelle Young Lee
Sam McKinniss
Davida Newman
Lee Perillo
Lily Stockman
James Woodward

2012 Graduates

Katherine Bauer
Joseph Imhauser
Agnes Lux
Taro Masushio
Chason Matthams
Brad Troemel
Alice Wang
G. William Webb
Elliott Wright
Leafe Zales

2011 Graduates

Jessica Gispert
Shadi Harouni
David J. Merritt
Carlos Reyes
Ben Schumacher
Andy Slemenda
Jo-ey Tang
Kevin Yang

2010 Graduates

Patrick Allan Bailey
Jennie Bringaker
Elaine Cameron-Weir
Sonja Engelhardt
Daniela Libertad Jaramillo
Alexander Jovanovich
Ji Hae Koo
Jason Martin
Joe Namy
Amelia Saul
Heather Sherman
Allison Somers
Gustabo Velazquez

2009 Graduates

Sorine Anderson
Peter Clough
Samuel Consiglio
Mila Geisler
Tracey Goodman
Jennifer Gustavson
Eun Jin Kim
Jeremy Olson
Nickolaus Typaldos