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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.

SVA Chelsea Gallery

Gallery installation displaying colorful comic and illustration-style artworks arranged linearly along both walls. A large monitor on a white pedestal at the center shows a figure with red abstract patterns. The space features an open ceiling with exposed dark wooden beams, track lighting, and natural light filtering through glass doors at the far end.

Comix and Illo 2025

Sep 19 - Oct 26

SVA Andrew Chang Gallery

Detail image of a sculpture made of bricks over an iron armature.

Jeffrey Schiff: Relics

Sep 29 - Oct 29

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Current and Upcoming

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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.

Comix and Illo 2025

International Outreach

Sep 19 - Oct 26, 2025

SVA Andrew Chang Gallery

Gallery installation displaying colorful comic and illustration-style artworks arranged linearly along both walls. A large monitor on a white pedestal at the center shows a figure with red abstract patterns. The space features an open ceiling with exposed dark wooden beams, track lighting, and natural light filtering through glass doors at the far end.

Jeffrey Schiff: Relics

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Sep 29 - Oct 29, 2025

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Detail image of a sculpture made of bricks over an iron armature.

Picture Library 2025

BFA Photography and Video

Oct 24 - Nov 15, 2025

SVA Gramercy Gallery

MA Curatorial Practice

October 24 - 31, 2025

MA Curatorial Practice

Oct 28, 2025; 3:00 - 5:00pm

Photo portrait of the writer Grace Byron, sitting in a chair in a black turtleneck with her hands placed on top of one another. Grace wears glasses and looks directly at the lens.

The Artists Roundtable: Pedro Reyes (Mexico City)

MA Curatorial Practice

Oct 28, 2025; 5:00 - 7:00pm

Online

MPS Art Therapy Virtual Information Session

MPS Art Therapy

Oct 29, 2025; 5:00 - 6:00pm

Online

Text over a green and white background that reads "MPS ART THERAPY IN-PERSON INFO SESSION Wed. October 29"

Information Session

Speaker Series: Robert Fabricant

MFA Products of Design

Oct 29, 2025; 6:00 - 8:00pm

MFA Products of Design

a flyer for an event featuring a black and white photo of a bald person wearing a black blazer with the name "Robert Fabricant" in orange-highlighted black text to the left

Bonding Humanity: Assemblies in Motion

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Oct 29, 2025; 6:30 - 8:30pm

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Poster for the screening series Bonding Humanity: Assemblies in Motion. The background features layered black-and-white and color film stills, including a woman leaning downward, a star-shaped structure, and an inverted landscape with subtitles reading “extraordinary sunset.” Text overlays read: “Bonding Humanity: Assemblies in Motion. Curated by Željka Blakšić aka Gita Blak. Films by Nina Bačun, Jyoti Mistry, Bo Wang, Anna Kipervaser, Lily Jue Sheng, Basim Magdy.”

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 Innovation

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

Online

MFA Design for Social Innovation Virtual Open House

MFA Design for Social Innovation

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

Online

image of person speaking and students listening.

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 Practice

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

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

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

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

“Wavelengths” Artist Career Roundtable Discussion

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 Innovation

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

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

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