RES ’17, Towers of Thanks, a new book published by Loose Joints, Sept 2017.

Associate Dean and Painting faculty SAM MESSER '82, Denis the Pirate, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT. Open Oct 5, 2017 - Feb 11, 2018. Opening reception —> Oct 5, 6-8pm.

SARA CWYNAR ’16, Tracy, Carl Kostyál, London UK. Open Oct 3 - Oct 28, 2017.

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York NY. Featuring MICKALENE THOMAS ’02, TROY MICHIE ’11, TSCHABALALA SELF ’15, CHRISTINA QUARLES ’16. Open Sep 27, 2017 – Jan 21, 2018.

ADD TO BAG, Todd Art Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN. Featuring DEREK LARSON '07. Open Sept 26 - Oct 18, 2017. Opening reception —> Sept 25, 4-6pm.

How Millennials Like Their Makeup, Portfolio by EVA O’LEARY ’16. Published in the Sept 25, 2017 issue of the New Yorker magazine.

ALTERONCE GUMBY ’16, Reading Rainbow, Long Gallery, New York NY. Open Sept 24 - Oct 29, 2017. Opening reception —> Sept 24, 2-5pm.

TANYA MARCUSE ’90, Woven, Julie Saul Gallery, New York NY. Open Sept 23 - Nov 18, 2017.

FARAH AL QASIMI ’17, Body Shop, a new book published by Dashwood Books, Sept 2017. Designed by AYHAM GHRAOWI ’17.

Paragons of Style, Text by Hilton Als, Photographs by JOHN EDMONDS ’16. Published Sept 20, 2017 on the New Yorker Photo Booth.

Black Pulp, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. Open Sept 19 - Dec 10. Curated by Assistant Dean of Student Relations and Painting faculty MARK GIBSON ’13 and former Painting faculty WILLIAM VILLALONGO. 

TETO ELSIDDIQUE ’16, A Distant Fire, 6BASE, New York NY. Open Sept 17 - Oct 29, 2017. 

First I Was Afraid..., Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City NY. Featuring NICOLE MALOOF '11. Open Sept 17 - Nov 19, 2017.

WILL WHEELER ’17, Neapolitan, Motel, Brooklyn NY. Sept 16 – Oct 15, 2017. 

RICHARD LYTLE '60, A Retrospective, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield CT. Open Sept 15, 2017 - Feb 3, 2018.

Near & Dear, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York NY. Featuring JENNIFER PAIGE COHEN ’00, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking and painting faculty ANOKA FARUQEE, as well as former faculty SHEILA PEPE and WILLIAM VILLALONGO. Open Sept 15 - Oct 28.

States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK. Featuring DAWOUD BEY ’93. Open Sept 16 - Nov 26, 2017.

Fictions, Studio Museum Harlem, New York NY. Featuring GENEVIEVE GAIGNARD ’14 DEVAN SHIMOYAMA ’14 CHRISTINA QUARLES ’16 MICHAEL JEVON DEMPS ’17. Open Sep 14, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018.

SHEILA HICKS '59, Biennale Arte 2017 - Sheila Hicks (video), Venice Biennale Channel. 

SASHA RUDENSKY ’08, Acts and Illusions, Davidson Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. Open Sept 13 - Dec 10, 2017.

EVAN WHALE ’14, Come And See, Actual Size LA, Los Angeles CA. Open Sept 9 - Oct 22, 2017.

The Plot Thickens, The Institute Library Gallery, New Haven CT. Open Sept 9 - Oct 31, 2017. Curated by MARTHA LEWIS ’93, who is in residence this year at the Yale Quantum Institute.

ABIGAIL DEVILLE ’11, No Space Hidden (Shelter), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA. Open Sept 9 - Dec 31, 2017.

AWOL ERIZKU ’14, Menace II Society, Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Sept 9 – Oct 7.

Immigrancy, Samson Projects, Boston MA. Featuring LISA SIGAL ’89, KIANJA STROBERT ’06, LUCY KIM ’07 and former Painting faculty JOSEPHINE HALVORSON. Open Sept 8 - Nov 11, 2017.

STANLEY WHITNEY ’72, Stanley Whitney: Drawings, Lisson Gallery, New York NY. Sept 8 – Oct 21, 2017.

GENEVIEVE GAIGNARD ’14, In Passing, Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX. Sept 8 - Oct 22, 2017.

Hold That Thought, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York NY. Featuring JENNY SNIDER ’66. Open Sept 7 – Oct 21, 2017.

Assistant Dean of Student Relations and Painting faculty MARK GIBSON ’13, Early Retirement, Fredericks & Freiser, New York NY. Open Sept 7 - Oct 14. See also Mark’s newly published book with Edition Patrick Frey: Early Retirement. 

JORDAN CASTEEL ’14, Harlem Nights, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York NY. Open Sept 7 – Oct 28, 2017.

MARC TRUJILLO ’94, American Purgatory, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston SC. Aug 25 – Oct 7, 2017. 

2017–18 Visual and Environmental Studies Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Featuring ELLE PÉREZ ’15. Open Aug 24 – Sep 24, 2017.

Little Lower Layer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL. Featuring NEWTON HARRISON ’65. Open Jun 3 - Oct 1, 2017.

DENZIL HURLEY ’79, Disclosures, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA. May 20 – Nov 5, 2017.