VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

Crossing Platforms, MFA Computer Art, May 18-Jun 1, 2013
Selections from Thesis Projects, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, Apr 26-May 11, 2013
Hatched: New Ventures in Entrepreneurial Design, MFA Design, Apr 26-May 11, 2013
Kings and Queens, BFA Cartooning & Illustration, Apr 6-20, 2013
Mentors, BFA Photography, Mar 15-30, 2013
Split Ends, MFA Fine Arts, Feb 22-Mar 9, 2013
Sampler, BFA Fine Arts, Feb 2-16, 2013
Books and Prints, BFA Fine Arts, Feb 2-16, 2013
We Object, MFA Fine Arts, Jan 11-26, 2013
MPS Fashion Photography Graduate Exhibition: Class of 2012, Dec 1-19, 2012
Cretaceous Returns:Works by Reed + Rader, BFA Photography, Dec 1-19, 2012
Youngstown: An Equivalent, BFA Photography, Dec 1-19, 2012
True Lies, BFA Photography, Dec 1-19, 2012
Life & Death, Oct 17-Nov 17, 2012
Myths & Realities: 2012 Alumni Affairs Photography Exhibition, Aug 29-Sept 29, 2012

WESTSIDE GALLERY

Geometric Propagation, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects, Apr 24-May 18, 2013
SVAID Selects, BFA Interior Design, Mar 16-April 6,2013
Through the Looking Glass, MPS Art Therapy, Feb 9-Mar 9, 2013
Defending Dialogue, BFA Visual & Critical Studies, Jan 5-Feb 2, 2013
Touch, Student Juried Exhibition, Dec 5-19, 2012
RE:, MFA Computer Art, Oct 27-Nov 27, 2012
Prime Time, BFA Fine Arts, Sept 29-Oct 20, 2012
Russia Rising, Sept 4-22, 2012

SVA GALLERY

Tall Tales, MFA Design, May 14-25, 2013
Change Needed, BFA 3D Design, Apr 10-27, 2013
This and That, BFA 3D Design, March 18-April 5, 2013
Mr. Nobody at All, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, Feb 8-March 2, 2013
The Broadway Project, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, Feb 8-March 2, 2013
Listening to Print, BFA Advertising & Design, Jan 12-Feb 2, 2013
The Masters Series: James McMullan, Nov 26-Dec 15, 2012
un/common skin, MPS Digital Photo, Oct 19-Nov 10, 2012
The Book Show, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, Sept 21-Oct 13, 2012
The Decisive Moment, BFA Film & Video, Sept 4-15, 2012

VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

Social, Jul 7-8, 2012
Natural, Jul 7-8, 2012
Between Two Thoughts, Jul 7-Aug 11, 2012
Place/Displace/Replace:Art Practice in Situ, MFA Art Practice, Jul 7-Aug 11, 2012
2012 Thesis Exhibition, MFA Photography, Video & Related Media, Jun 6-30, 2012
Parsing (IM)Possibilities, MFA Computer Art, May 18-Jun 2, 2012
Designer as Author/Entreprenuer, MFA Design, Apr 27-May 12, 2012
Man Made Monsters, BFA Illustration, Apr 6-21, 2012
Mentors, BFA Photography, Mar 16-31, 2012
Just the Tip, MFA Fine Arts, Feb 24-Mar 3, 2012
Print Settings, BFA Fine Arts, Feb 3-18, 2012 
Material Magic, BFA Fine Arts, Feb 3-18, 2012
Every Once Sometimes Now, MFA Fine Arts,  Jan 13-28, 2012
Being American, Nov 22-Dec 21, 2011
The Masters Series: Edward Sorel, Oct 7-Nov 5, 2011
The Influentials, Aug 26-Sept 21, 2011

WESTSIDE GALLERY

Global Positioning System, 2012 Summer Residency Exhibition, Jul 28-Aug 18, 2012
RISK, MAT Art Education, Jun 23-Jul 21, 2012
Working Space, student juried exhibition, May 29-Jun 16, 2012
Out of the Box, On the Box, Sr. Thesis Projects, BFA Computer Art, Apr 28-May 19, 2012
SVA ID Exhibition: Moe’s Café, Mar 24-Apr 7, 2012
See My Voice, Hear My Vision, MPS Art Therapy, Feb 11-Mar 17, 2012
It’s All in Your Head, BFA Visual & Critical Studies, Jan 7, 2011- Feb 4, 2012
Here is New York, Sept 6-17, 2011

SVA GALLERY

Relations, Aug 2-18, 2012
Love, Sharing, and Green, Jul 24-25, 2012
Souls, Jul 7-19, 2012
Art Brewer: Surf Evolution, June 8-30, 2012
RE-ELECT: Old Presidents, New Candidates, MFA Design, Apr 30-May 26, 2012
FUNctional, BFA Advertising & Design, Mar 14-Apr 7, 2012
My Last Attempt, MFA Illustration, Feb 10-Mar 3, 2012
Interventions: Form and Letterform, BFA Advertising & Design, Jan 13-Feb 4, 2012
Bryan Krueger: Mejor Vista General, BFA Photography, Nov 18-Dec 17, 2011

The exhibition program at SVA advances the College’s philosophy of integrating life outside the classroom with the teaching that occurs within. Becoming a professional artist entails more than just developing talent and honing skills; it also means gaining the practical experience and creative enrichment that come from showing work in a real gallery setting. SVA’s commitment to this objective is second to none: We employ a full-time staff of gallery professionals to hold over 50 exhibitions a year in our three exhibition spaces. There are two galleries on campus and one off campus. The latter, which also houses the Office of Student Galleries, comprises four fully equipped exhibition spaces, as well as a terrace with a spectacular Hudson River view where outdoor sculpture can be shown. Matriculated students can exhibit their work either as part of a department show, organized by their department chair or a guest curator, or by applying to the Office of Student Galleries for a juried exhibition. For each student exhibition held at SVA, the College hosts an opening reception at which the exhibiting artists can interact with the public and members of the arts community as well as celebrate their accomplishments with friends, family and colleagues. Some of the most important present-day artists first exhibited their work while they were still students at SVA.

SVA’s exhibition program also affords students the opportunity to study the work of renowned artists and designers up close, hear them speak at lectures, or even meet them in person—all right here at the College. Since 1960, SVA has exhibited the work of some of the most significant figures in modern art, including Willem de Kooning, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Mark di Suvero and Andy Warhol. Reflecting the breadth of its curricula, SVA has also exhibited prominent exponents of contemporary design, illustration and photography. In 1988, SVA inaugurated the Masters Series, an annual award exhibition to honor great visual communicators of our time. Silas Rhodes, the founder of SVA, conceived it as a way of bringing public recognition to groundbreaking designers, illustrators and photographers who are sometimes unknown to the general public—a public that has nonetheless responded strongly to their imagery and has been influenced by their work. Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast, Jules Feiffer, Milton Glaser, George Lois, Mary Ellen Mark, Paul Rand, Paula Scher and Massimo Vignelli are among those who have received the Masters Series Award. Exhibitions at SVA are also meant to engage students in understanding art-making in varied contexts as it occurs today. For instance, “Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting,” was a survey of recent work by a cross-generational selection of 19 established and emerging New York artists examining the relationship between contemporary painting and the notion of “the image” in today’s increasingly hyper-visual culture.  Among these artists, who work in abstract and representational styles, were Judith Linhares, Lisa Yuskavage, Ron Gorchov and SVA alumna Inka Essenhigh.

This College, a longtime proponent of artists’ social awareness, exhibited “Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran,” 150 political posters created in support of the protests that followed the latest presidential election in Iran. R. O. Blechman, Robert Grossman, Anita Kunz, Jennifer Morla, Woody Pirtle and Ralph Steadman were just some of the many graphic artists worldwide who contributed to this exhibition.

In 1988 SVA instituted the Masters Series, an annual award exhibition to honor great visual communicators --designers, illustrators, art directors and photographers-- of our time. As Silas Rhodes, founder and chairman of the College put it, "Though their achievements are lauded by their colleagues, the names of groundbreaking visual artists often go largely unrecognized by the general public even though many people have been influenced by their work and have responded strongly to their imagery. At the School of Visual Arts we feel that artists of this caliber should have the widest possible public exposure and recognition, which is why we offer this annual award and exhibition."

MASTERS SERIES RECIPIENTS

2012 James McMullan
2011 Edward Sorel
2008 April Greiman
2007 Steven Heller
2006 Jules Feiffer
2005 Heinz Edelmann
2004 Ed McCabe
2003 Marshall Arisman
2002 Paula Scher
2001 Shigeo Fukuda
2000 Duane Michals
1999 Tony Palladino
1998 Paul Davis
1997 Seymour Chwast
1996 Mary Ellen Mark
1996 Saul Bass
1995 Ivan Chermayeff
1995 Deborah Sussman
1994 George Lois
1992 George Tscherny
1991 Lou Dorfsman
1991 Massimo Vignelli
1989 Milton Glaser
1988 Paul Rand

There are three gallery spaces at the College: