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Exhibition

Presented by MPS Fashion Photography

MPS Fashion Photography 2025 Graduate Exhibition

May 9 - 28, 2025
Two women stand face-to-face on a green lawn, gently holding each other’s hands, seen through a window grid from above. Two women stand face-to-face on a green lawn, gently holding each other’s hands, seen through a window grid from above.

Jingyi Yu, Untitled, 2024-25, archival pigment print, 12 x 18 inches

Jingyi Yu, Untitled, 2024-25, archival pigment print, 18 x 12 inches

SVA Gramercy Gallery

209 East 23rd Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10010

Reception

Thu, May 8; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Holiday Closure

SVA Galleries will close in observance of Memorial Day Weekend from Friday, May 23, at 1:00pm, through Monday, May 26. Standard hours resume on Tuesday, May 27.

MPS Fashion Photography presents its 2025 graduate exhibition, an exhibition of fashion photography by 11 MPS Fashion Photography students, curated by faculty member Shonagh Marshall. The exhibition will be on view Friday, May 9, through Wednesday, May 28, at the SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street. 


MPS Fashion Photography was founded in 2011 to give precedence to the concepts that underpin photographic practice within the space of fashion. As a one-year intensive graduate program, its faculty and guest speakers are some of the most innovative and influential figures in the industry. The approach aims to extend the visual language of the students it attracts, who hail from all over the world.


For this exhibition, each student from the graduating class of 2025 was invited to make a new body of work. Investigating fashion not just as style, but as a social system—a mirror, a mask, a language—the work on view reveals how each artist reclaims the medium as a site of personal and cultural inquiry. 


Artists featured in this exhibition are Alex Lv (Hàowēi Lü 吕皓巍), Benicia King, Husheng Zhou, Jia K. Min, Jingyi Yu, Jinyu Cao, Ke Huang, Lucie Su, Parys Wyatt, Saemi Park and Yingjia Liu.

In the gallery, student photography hangs on the wall. On one wall, the works are in bright pink frames, and a pedestal holds a triangular pink sculpture. The works perpendicular to those aren’t framed, and feature images of models in various poses.
A wider view of the Gramercy Gallery lobby. Photographs hang on every wall and a box television sits on a pedestal to the far right of the image.
The view from the entrance into the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Two screens display video art, and a light blue wall to the left has a series of photographs on it. There are more photographs on the wall perpendicular to the light blue one.
A series of dreamlike images on a light blue wall in the gallery lobby. To the right of the photographs is a small box television playing a video.
Colourful images whose contents match their frames in the lobby of the SVA Gramercy Gallery. On a wall perpendicular are unframed images by another artist.
Photographs on a wall in the gallery lobby. The images are spread widely, and there’s a lot of space between them.
The entrance to the SVA Gramercy Gallery partially obscured by a pillar. Behind it are works of fashion photography.
Several works on display in the SVA Gramercy Gallery. One display features images in decorative frames hung in front of cascading black cloth.
Several images featuring fashionable young people hanging on a white wall.
The lobby of the SVA Gramercy Gallery featuring work by a student. Three large vertical stripes of pink, yellow, and blue are painted on the wall. Photographs of a model posing are hung on these stripes.
Another angle of the previous image. The wall is painted red partway through and features more photography by another artist. Perpendicular to that wall is a video display.
Images of fashionable young people arranged on a wall in the SVA galleries. To the right of those images is a series of black and white pictures arranged around a larger portrait of a person’s hands.
In the window display of the Sva Gramercy Gallery, a poster advertising the SVA MPS Fashion Photography Graduate Exhibition hangs. The poster is behind glass, and depicts an array of models posing before a black and white New York skyline.
Various images of a model in a church hang on a wall in the gallery. Below and to the right of these images is a pedestal draped in burnt lace.
Black framed images hanging on a red wall in the SVA Gramercy Gallery. A screen hangs on a white wall perpendicular to them.
Black and white pictures hang in the corner of the gallery, and to their left is a gothic-looking display. Images hang in elaborate frames, while black fabric drapes behind them, one frame and picture lies shattered on the cloth-covered floor.
Several works on display in the SVA Gramercy Gallery, including a gothic looking one, images of a model in church, and images of men in triangular pink frames.
On a wall in the SVA Gramercy Gallery, video art is displayed on a monitor. To the right of that there are images of men kissing hang in pink, triangular frames, as well as smaller frames of a model smirking at the audience.
In the gallery, student photography hangs on the wall. On one wall, the works are in bright pink frames, and a pedestal holds a triangular pink sculpture. The works perpendicular to those aren’t framed, and feature images of models in various poses.
A wider view of the Gramercy Gallery lobby. Photographs hang on every wall and a box television sits on a pedestal to the far right of the image.
The view from the entrance into the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Two screens display video art, and a light blue wall to the left has a series of photographs on it. There are more photographs on the wall perpendicular to the light blue one.
A series of dreamlike images on a light blue wall in the gallery lobby. To the right of the photographs is a small box television playing a video.
Colourful images whose contents match their frames in the lobby of the SVA Gramercy Gallery. On a wall perpendicular are unframed images by another artist.
Photographs on a wall in the gallery lobby. The images are spread widely, and there’s a lot of space between them.
The entrance to the SVA Gramercy Gallery partially obscured by a pillar. Behind it are works of fashion photography.
Several works on display in the SVA Gramercy Gallery. One display features images in decorative frames hung in front of cascading black cloth.
Several images featuring fashionable young people hanging on a white wall.
The lobby of the SVA Gramercy Gallery featuring work by a student. Three large vertical stripes of pink, yellow, and blue are painted on the wall. Photographs of a model posing are hung on these stripes.
Another angle of the previous image. The wall is painted red partway through and features more photography by another artist. Perpendicular to that wall is a video display.
Images of fashionable young people arranged on a wall in the SVA galleries. To the right of those images is a series of black and white pictures arranged around a larger portrait of a person’s hands.
In the window display of the Sva Gramercy Gallery, a poster advertising the SVA MPS Fashion Photography Graduate Exhibition hangs. The poster is behind glass, and depicts an array of models posing before a black and white New York skyline.
Various images of a model in a church hang on a wall in the gallery. Below and to the right of these images is a pedestal draped in burnt lace.
Black framed images hanging on a red wall in the SVA Gramercy Gallery. A screen hangs on a white wall perpendicular to them.
Black and white pictures hang in the corner of the gallery, and to their left is a gothic-looking display. Images hang in elaborate frames, while black fabric drapes behind them, one frame and picture lies shattered on the cloth-covered floor.
Several works on display in the SVA Gramercy Gallery, including a gothic looking one, images of a model in church, and images of men in triangular pink frames.
On a wall in the SVA Gramercy Gallery, video art is displayed on a monitor. To the right of that there are images of men kissing hang in pink, triangular frames, as well as smaller frames of a model smirking at the audience.
In the gallery, student photography hangs on the wall. On one wall, the works are in bright pink frames, and a pedestal holds a triangular pink sculpture. The works perpendicular to those aren’t framed, and feature images of models in various poses.
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