Monday, December 11, 6:00 – 9:00pm | BFA Fine Arts Open Studios | 335 West 16th Street

BFA Fine Arts presents its fall 2023 open studios. Fourth-year students will open their studios for viewing, along with other exhibition spaces throughout the building.

Tuesday, December 12, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Kenneth Tam | 133/141 W 21st Street, Room 101C, and online

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Kenneth Tam, an artist based in Houston and Queens who works with video, sculpture, installation, movement, performance and photography. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, he examines themes including the performance of masculinity, the transformative potential of ritual and expressions of intimacy within groups. In addition to many solo exhibitions, Tam is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants to artists in 2023 and his work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, LACMA, Hammer Museum, Cantor Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Tam is currently an assistant professor at Rice University and a faculty member at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Tuesday, December 12, 3:00 – 4:00pm | The Artists Roundtable: Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Ragnar Kjartansson, an artist who engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. Kjartasnsson blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings and his performances to sculpture.

Tuesday, December 12, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Howard Schatz | Location provided upon registration

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer Howard Schatz as part of its i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Schatz has received international acclaim and over the last 30 years 23 major books of his work have been published. Schatz has won virtually every award in photography and has had over 100 museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Schatz has made images for such advertising clients as Nike, Reebok, Sony, Adidas, MGM Grand Hotel, Virgin Records and Mercedes-Benz.

Thursday, December 14, 12:00 – 1:00pm | The Algorithmic State: The Power and Peril of Artificial Memory | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with internationally celebrated artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and curator Kathleen Forde. Lozano-Hemmer uses digital technologies and machine learning to develop works of art that powerfully engage viewers in new ways to engage memories as individuals and collectively. His works point to the promise of intelligent machines while questioning what artificial memory production may also portend. In this talk, Lozano-Hemmer and Forde will discuss the artist’s machine-mediated practice, focusing on his most recent immersive art environment, Atmospheric Memory, and its implications for surveillance, collective memory and border politics.

Thursday, December 14, 5:00 – 9:00pm | MFA Fine Arts Fall 2023 Open Studios | 133/141 West 21st Street, 8th and 9th floors

Meet 56 artists from around the world pursuing an MFA in fine arts at SVA at the department’s fall 2023 open studios.

This month at the College offers MFA Illustration as Visual Essay’s annual book exhibition project, a BFA Interior Design student exhibition and much more.