School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Other Visions,” a juried exhibition of multidisciplinary work by SVA students. Organized by SVA Galleries, the exhibition will be on view from Thursday, August 4, through Monday, August 22, 2022, at the SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. 

“Other Visions” reveals hidden structures and unique ways of seeing through language, identity and light. Six artists use their respective mediums—photography, painting, installation and illustration—as distinct methods for processing invisible experiences. Their explorations translate the unseen into tangible, visible forms.

Xinlu Chen (BFA Illustration) illustrates a fantastical nightmare about butterflies from the artist’s childhood, visualizing themes from their coming of age.

Dani Melen (MFA Fine Arts) reveals the restrictions inherent to heteronormative gender roles while celebrating non-conforming identities in their maximalist installations.

Silvia Muleo (MFA Fine Arts) uses photographic research to reveal a human relationship to artificial and digital light, then translates it into abstract paintings.

Yin Wong (MFA Fine Arts) inserts ping-pong games into unexpected environments as an illustration of code-switching, a common yet intensely personal act of shifting between an individual’s different languages, cultures and realities. 

Xuemeng Zhang (MFA Photography, Video and Related Media) constructs geometric assemblages as organizational containers of emotion, perception and fantasy.

Zaccheo Zhang (MPS Fashion Photography) explores the relationship between photographic materials, process and maker by using camera-less photography as a tool for recording fleeting energy.

Juried exhibitions are a way for SVA students to recognize the achievements of their most distinguished classmates. Artists are selected from a large pool of applicants to the annual SVA Galleries call for entries, whose submissions undergo a rigorous examination of presented materials, including documentation of work and artist statements.

The SVA Gramercy Gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10:00am – 6:00pm. In accordance with SVA COVID-19 protocols, daily in-person visitation is limited to SVA students, faculty and staff.

The public may attend the exhibition reception by registering at least 48 hours in advance; to register, click the button at the top of this page. All visitors must show proof of vaccination (including booster, if eligible) and remain masked while indoors.