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SVA GalleriesAlumni Affairs and Development

Sep 2 - Dec 6, 2025

SVA Chelsea Gallery

Two hands rest atop a surface, the left drawing vertical lines with their fingers, the right pointing creating the words "I Was Here" out of a sandy texture. Below this semi-transparent texture is a forested landscape with a figure standing atop a mountain as a rainbow radiates around them.

Picture Library 2025

BFA Photography and Video

Oct 24 - Nov 15, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

MA Curatorial PracticeArtist Residency Programs

October 24 - 31, 2025

MA Curatorial Practice

The Thing Lab Presents: Unearthing the Thing

MFA Visual NarrativeArtist Residency Programs

Oct 24 - Nov 8, 2025

Graduate Center

A black and red illustration of the silhouette of a monster.

SVA Graduate Admissions Overview

Oct 30, 2025; 1:00 - 3:00pm

Online

Information Session

The 2025 Undies Screening

Oct 31, 2025; 12:00 - 5:00pm

A robot arm holds open the eyelids of a man with a large blue nose who is being forced to look at a screen on the wall with a flower shape. Text within the flower shape reads "The 2025 Undies By me, SVA"

MPS Art Therapy In-Person Information Session

MPS Art Therapy

Nov 1, 2025; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

MPS Art Therapy

Text over a purple and white background that reads "MPS ART THERAPY IN-PERSON INFO SESSION Saturday November 1"

Information Session

MFA Computer Arts Exhibition Fall 2025

MFA Computer Arts

November 1 - 22, 2025

SVA Flatiron Gallery

MFA Visual Narrative Information Session

MFA Visual Narrative

Nov 3, 2025; 7:30 - 9:30pm

Online

A small boy sits in the living room, staring at a TV; the text, "What's My Story?" appears in white in the center of the image.

Information Session

Nov 4, 2025; 3:00 - 5:00pm

Painting of a man pushing over a tree by Anthony Cudahy, entitled Death instinct (for Bergman, for Tarkovsky), 2024. Oil on linen, 4 x 10 ft.

i3 Photo Lecture: Stacy Renee Morrison

MPS Digital Photography

Nov 4, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

A black and white photograph of a 19th century woman against a black background.

MFA Design for Social Innovation Virtual Open House

MFA Design for Social InnovationArtist Residency Programs

Nov 6, 2025; 8:30 - 10:00am

Online

image of person speaking and students listening.

MFA Design for Social Innovation Virtual Open House

MFA Design for Social Innovation

Nov 6, 2025; 8:30 - 10:00am

Online

Lonely Magic with Rebecca Sugar: Alumni Panel and Performance

Nov 8, 2025; 12:00 - 3:00pm

Animated promo image of a young person walking away with suitcases while angels watches over them

National Portfolio Day with MFA Design for Social Innovation

MFA Design for Social Innovation

Nov 9, 2025; 12:00 - 4:00pm

a person with long dark hair on the left looking at 2 students speaking.

Information Session

LAAAAAND: Curating Another Nation

MA Curatorial PracticeArtist Residency Programs

Nov 10, 2025; 4:00 - 7:00pm

the word "laaaaaand" in black text on an orange background with a chainlink fence overlaid

MA/MAT Art Education Info Session

MA/MAT Art Education

Nov 11, 2025; 5:30 - 7:00pm

MA/MAT Art Education

A group of people over look as an instructor with glasses points to a student's laptop screen in a printmaking studio where a printmaking screen lies on the table in front of them.

Information Session

Open House: MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Nov 11, 2025; 5:30 - 7:00pm

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

“Wavelengths” Artist Career Roundtable Discussion

SVA GalleriesArtist Residency Programs

Nov 11, 2025; 6:00 - 7:00pm

SVA Chelsea Gallery

A wall-mounted, silkscreened pane of glass, lit from above, creates a shadow-based image of a lawn chair below it.

Speculative Cinematics: AI, Eco-horror, and the Moving Image

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Nov 11, 2025; 6:30 - 8:30pm

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

A nighttime scene with a house illuminated by exterior lights. The sky is dark blue with a glowing full moon shining above trees. In the foreground, a large gray rock with crater-like holes appears digitally inserted, floating in mid-air in front of the house.

MPS Digital Photography Q&A Session: November 2025

MPS Digital Photography

Nov 11, 2025; 8:00 - 9:00pm

Online

A photo from a lighting workshop with Greg Gorman, where one of our student is modeling for the class to demonstrate lighting techniques.

Information Session

Speaker Series: Nicola Twilley

MFA Products of Design

Nov 12, 2025; 2:00 - 4:00pm

Online

Image of woman in cable knit sweater and short hair with surrounding company logos and books

MFA Design for Social Innovation Open House

MFA Design for Social InnovationArtist Residency Programs

Nov 14, 2025; 5:00 - 8:00pm

MFA Design for Social Innovation

3 students smiling at the camera, one on the right is holding up the peace sign and one on the far left is holding a thumbs up

Meet MFA DSI at Virtual National Portfolio Day

MFA Design for Social Innovation

Nov 16, 2025; 12:00 - 4:00pm

Online

Black and white photo of students with instructors looking at a poster in the middle

Information Session

Luigi Ballerini, Leonardo’s Eels

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 17, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Eels, Detail from the Last Supper

i3 Photo Lecture: Nicky Quamina-Woo

MPS Digital Photography

Nov 18, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

In this color photograph, a man emerges from the ocean, which has taken on a vibrant orange-ish cast in rural Saly, Senegal.

MFA Design for Social Innovation Virtual Info Session

MFA Design for Social Innovation

Nov 18, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00pm

Online

Black and white photo of students collaborating

Information Session

SVA Graduate Admissions Overview

Nov 19, 2025; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Online

Information Session

MA Curatorial Practice Info Session

MA Curatorial Practice

Nov 20, 2025; 10:00 - 11:00am

Online

Information Session

SVA Graduate Admissions Alumni Panel

Nov 20, 2025; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Information Session

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Nov 22 - Dec 13, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception: Nov 24, 5:00 - 8:00pm

Act 1: Geraldine Scott III

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Nov 22 - Dec 13, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception: Nov 24, 5:00 - 8:00pm

SVA International Graduate Applicant Q&A

Nov 24, 2025; 10:00 - 11:00am

Online

Information Session

Open House: MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Dec 2, 2025; 5:30 - 7:00pm

MA/MAT Art Education Info Session

MA/MAT Art Education

Dec 2, 2025; 5:30 - 7:00pm

Online

Two people painting a blue wave on a wall. One person is standing and one is kneeling.

Information Session

i3 Photo Lecture: Jessica Pettway

MPS Digital Photography

Dec 2, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm

A photograph of a lobster shaped red balloon sitting on top of a bed of kale leaves on a dinner plate. Surrounding the scene is a dinner table fully set up with cutlery, a dinner napkin folded into a fan, and a single rose in a tin vase.

MFA Visual Narrative Alumni Panel

MFA Visual Narrative

Dec 3, 2025; 7:30 - 9:30pm

Online

Apostrophe graphic of many colorful layered with the text, "Story Builds" in the center.

Information Session

fables of introverts, chapter iii: limbo

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Dec 4, 2025 - Jan 3, 2026

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: Dec 4, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Painting of a man's torso. The man is wearing a blue suit jacket and his hand is resting on his stomach.

MPS Digital Photography Q&A Session: December 2025

MPS Digital Photography

Dec 8, 2025; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

A photo from a class visit to the New York Times headquarter in New York City, where the Masters in Digital Photography students are inquiring about the history of the famed newsroom.

Information Session

MFA Design for Social Innovation Virtual Info Session

MFA Design for Social InnovationArtist Residency Programs

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

Online

Students looking up at library with instructor pointing

MA Curatorial Practice Application Q&A and Info Session

MA Curatorial Practice

Dec 11, 2025; 10:00 am

Online

Information Session

SVA Graduate Admissions Alumni Panel

Dec 11, 2025; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Information Session

SVA Graduate Application Q&A

Dec 16, 2025; 10:00 - 11:00am

Online

Information Session

Only A God Can Save Us

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

January 8 - 24, 2026

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: Jan 15, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Painting of printed childhood images in purple and yellow.

MA/MAT Art Education Luncheon MA Info Session and Q&A

MA/MAT Art Education

Jan 14, 2026; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Online

Two students sit on the floor while another student sit on a chair around each other while sculpting small figurines together.

Information Session

Frances Fox Piven, One Year On

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 20, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Photo of Frances Fox Piven, contemplative

M. E. O’Brien, Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 16, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Colorful portrait of M. E. O'Brien

Mary Frank: Works on Paper

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Mar 23 - Apr 19, 2026

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: Mar 26, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Black and white ink painting of deer

Terrains of Sound, Light and Form

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

May 12 - 30, 2026

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: May 14, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Macro shot of a fuzz type material with black soot on it over a white background.