The Barney Arts Digest

Current Exhibitions

80WSE | Project Space: DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s on view until March 7, 2026.

DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s examines how young women and girls in the last decade of the 20th century confronted dominant social expectations and redefined ideas of femininity through handcraft, community building, and a Do-It-Yourself approach.

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80WSE: Escapements on view until January 24, 2026.

Escapements brings together drawings by artists whose works navigate the space between opposing worlds, constructing psycho-social metaphors through gesture, mark-making, and image.

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80WSE: Beetles, Cats, Clouds: The Manga of Tsurita Kuniko, Yamada Murasaki, and Kondoh Akino on view until January 24, 2026.

Beetles, Cats, Clouds features three women manga artists—Tsurita Kuniko, Yamada Murasaki, and Kondoh Akino—whose work defied the reigning gender conventions within Japanese comics from the 1960s into the 2000s.

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80WSE | Broadway Windows: Thrones on view until February 1, 2026.

Thrones showcases contemporary chairs by artists, commercial producers, and furniture designers to consider the chair as a site where function, symbolism, and narrative converge.

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Upcoming Events

Akino Kondoh and Ryan Holmberg In Conversation on January 21, 2026.

To mark the closing of Beetles, Cats, Clouds, artist Akino Kondoh and curator Ryan Holmberg will lead a gallery tour and conversation exploring alternative manga, Kondoh’s experience of cartooning as a woman in Japan, and the intersections of manga, animation, and fine art.

Alumni News

Elva Zhang ('25 VAA) spoke with Morie Dong ('20 VAA) to discuss her journey from NYU to the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai. Read more about how Dong is building bridges between art institutions and the public in contemporary China.

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Kerri Schlottman's (VAA Adjunct Faculty) new book, Daytime Moon, will be published by Unnamed Press in May. It is a story set in California, about a young woman, Isa, confronting family secrets in our climate crisis era.

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Raisa Nosova (MFA Alum) was accepted to the Ramona Residency in Houston, TX for their January 2026 period.

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Tasneem Sarkez (BFA Alum) was featured on the cover of Flash Art Magazine's "the z issue" specifically highlighting artists under 30 in the contemporary art scene.

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