The Barney Arts Digest

Posted

February 9, 2026

Announcements from the Department of Art & Art Professions

The front of the 80WSE gallery

New Exhibitions

BFA Senior Thesis Projects 2026 on view until May 8, 2026.

Join us for the culminating thesis projects of our BFA Studio Art majors, featuring a wide range of ambitious work across media and forms. Developed over the course of the year through sustained research, critique, and experimentation, these exhibitions and public events reflect each artist’s engagement with concept, process, space, and audience.

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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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Student in studio painting.

Alumni News

Figure Bound, an independent press run by Samuel Alexander Forest (MFA Alum), announces the new book A Most Exquisite Corpse. The accordion book folds out to a life-size full-body drawing, and features contributions by thirty artists including MFA Alumni Finley Doyle, Robin Gammons, Xingzi Gu, Forrest Knight, Megan Nugroho, Nick O'Connell, Ruoxin Sun, and Virgil Warren.

New & Ongoing Shows

Christopher Chan, LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY. Until May 14, 2026.

Cali Kurlan, Is it Mona Lisa?, Every Woman Biennial 2026, Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NY. Until April 13, 2026.

Hannah Eve Rothbard, Mein Volk, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY. Until February 28, 2026.

Joeun Kim Aatchim, Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Until March 29, 2026.

Linda Sormin, Uncertain Ground, The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada. Until April 12, 2026. 

 

View full list of shows and exhibitions

Jobs & Opportunities

  1. J. Sanford Miller Professor and Director of Arts Leadership, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
  2. Artist in Residence, Textile Art Center, Brooklyn, NY.
  3. Green-Wood Merchandise Design Contest, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.
  4. Social Media Content Creator / Designer (Part Time / Freelancer), reSOUND New York, New York, NY.

 

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