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Seeing Beyond Maps

Feb 17 - Mar 11

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Ink rorchach pattern printed on an 19th century black and white photo portrait of a young woman.

Greetings from Pandemic Island

Feb 21 - Mar 16

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Photograph of a large mirror with a gilded frame, leaning against a wall with a door frame reflected within.

Feb 26 - Mar 13

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Current and Upcoming

Mar 8 2025

Apr 8 2025

Seeing Beyond Maps

MFA Design for Social Innovation

Feb 17 - Mar 11, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

a graphic featuring exhibition title and information in black on a white background that reads "seeing beyond maps" and a collage of art on the right of the graphic

Greetings from Pandemic Island

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Feb 21 - Mar 16, 2025

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Ink rorchach pattern printed on an 19th century black and white photo portrait of a young woman.

MPS Art Therapy

Feb 26 - Mar 13, 2025

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Photograph of a large mirror with a gilded frame, leaning against a wall with a door frame reflected within.

TEDx SVA Women: The Intersection of Art and Gender

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Mar 10, 2025; 6:00 - 8:30pm

Composite of six headshots representing the event’s speakers.

BFA Photography and Video

March 11 - 22, 2025

SVA Chelsea Gallery

Reception: Mar 10, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Video of person with long hair eating red jello

Mar 11, 2025; 3:00 - 5:00pm

Still from A New Nature of a cartoon illustration of a rose and a blurred background. In A New Nature, artist Mark Dorf meditates on the possible trajectories of ecology, society, and technology and what they mean for the planet.

i3 Photo Lecture: Steve Giralt

MPS Digital Photography

Mar 11, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

Online

A behind-the-scene photo of a video set for a 7-Eleven ad campaign at The Garage, where Steve Giralt was the founder. At the center of the set is a cup from 7-Eleven, and above the set is a video camera.

The Curatorial Roundtable: Nick Aikens (Gothenburg)

MA Curatorial Practice

Mar 12, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

Greetings from Pandemic Island - Artist Talk with Viktor Koen

MPS Digital Photography

Mar 13, 2025; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Graduate Center

A vintage black-and-white photograph of a woman in a black dress with white lace trimmings. Her face was painted over with black ink.

Speaker Series: Chloé Desaulles

MFA Products of Design

Mar 17, 2025; 5:30 - 7:30pm

MFA Products of Design

Mar 18, 2025; 3:00 - 5:00pm

Image of a woman in a grey sweatshirt looking at her reflection in a mirrored sculpture in the park. The Battle Is Joined, Monument Lab, Mural Arts, Public art commission, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, PA, 2017

The Curatorial Roundtable: Zeynep Öz (Sharjah)

MA Curatorial Practice

Mar 19, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

Image of Zeynep Öz in orange shirt

MFA Computer Arts 2025 Spring Open Studio

MFA Computer Arts

Mar 19, 2025; 6:00 - 8:00pm

MFA Computer Arts Studio

Person interacts with video game using a toy on a projected surface

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2025

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: Mar 20, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Title of exhibition in large block pink letters followed by a list of all the exhibiting artists.

TO LOVE–TO DIE; TO FIGHT. TO LIVE.

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Office of the Provost

Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2025

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Reception: Mar 20, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Black and white broadside with the following text: The world is getting empty of everyone I know, one by one, in every direction they are leaving this world, for some people everyone they know has died. A second poster says: Treat a complete stranger as a lover, hug them as good friends, as they are or as 10 years ago you might have had fabulous sex with absolute abandon with the same stranger. Now life is ravaged and we offer from the same root boundless compassion.

MFA Fine Arts Spring 2025 Open Studios

Mar 20, 2025; 6:00 - 9:00pm

MFA Fine Arts Studios

open studios poster in the style of a letter envelope

BFA Design BFA Advertising

Mar 24 - Apr 29, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception: Mar 27, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Jason Rosenberg, Lessons from the AIDS Movement

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 24, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Newspaper clipping of gay activists being arrested at first ACT UP action

Visiting Artist Lecture: Stephen Lordan

Mar 24, 2025; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Michelle Grabner

Mar 25, 2025; 3:00 - 4:00pm

Untitled, 2021, secco fresco by Michelle Grabner. A series of small paintings of different kinds of plaid hung on a white wall of a gallery.

Aperture Conversations Memorable Fancies: Minor White’s Photography and Legacy

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

Mar 25, 2025; 6:30 - 8:30pm

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media

Book Cover of a person sitting in front of a wall looking away with text underneath the photo.

i3 Photo Lecture: Diane Allford

MPS Digital Photography

Mar 25, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

136 West 21st Street, Room 418F

A female fashion model, wearing black tuxedo dress, leather pants, and a feathered head piece, poses for the camera while squatting in front of a blue wall.

The Curatorial Roundtable: Kjersti Solbakken (Bergen, Norway)

MA Curatorial Practice

Mar 26, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

Image of Kjersti Solbakken

Community Memorial AIDS Quilt-Making Workshops

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Office of the Provost

March 29 - 30, 2025

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Image showing two blocks of AIDS quilts comprised each of eight quilt panels.

David France—Surviving A Plague: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 31, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster for film How to Survive a Plague, activists with fists raised, sunrise imagery

Apr 1, 2025; 3:00 - 5:00pm

Beatrice Glow, Pax Hollandica (Dutch Peace), 2022, VR-sculpted photopolymer 3D print, metallic paint, acrylic paint, enamel coating, chains.

i3 Photo Lecture: Jai Lennard

MPS Digital Photography

Apr 8, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

136 West 21st Street, Room 418F

The 2020 CliveDavis 2020 Pre-Grammy Gala class photo by the Hollywood Reporter, featuring 16 musical talents.

The Curatorial Roundtable: Astrid Peterle (Vienna)

MA Curatorial Practice

Apr 9, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00am