External Exhibitions & Performances

Academic Year 2025-26

Pablo Delano, Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts has two upcoming solo exhibitions.  “MY PARADISE IS HELL” at the EMBAJADA Gallery San Juan, Puerto Rico
October 11, 2025 – January 17, 2026 and “CUESTIONES CARIBEÑAS / CARIBBEAN MATTERS:assemblage and sculpture” at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
August 11 – December 14, 2025

 

Lynn Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts will have a solo exhibition of sculptural videos and digital prints, “Lynn Sullivan: Daughter of the Sentence,”  from October 14 to December 1, 2025 at New Media Artspace at Baruch College, New York City.

 

 

 

 

Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts had “How To Take Something That’s Ephemeral And Make It Endure” accepted for inclusion in the Northwest Arts Center’s INT’L All Media 2025 exhibition; and had “Who Can Cheat Destiny” selected for group exhibition “Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid” at the Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO; “Serious Emails Must Be Sent From The Computer, Not The Phone” selected for the 2025 National Juried Painting Exhibition at The University of Southern Mississippi; “Is Maybe A Polite No?” was accepted at the WHIM exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the Rockport Art Association & Museum National Juried Show.  She had two pieces “Inexorably Eating Bamboo While You Blankly Stare” and “Do I Need Blood Pressure Medicine Before Entering This Museum” selected for 40 under 40 at the The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. “The Cat Sits In The Back Back, Watching Ice Chunks Fall Off The Window” was selected for the Providence Art Club’s National Open Juried Exhibition.  “We Are Now Closer To 2050 Than 1990” was on view at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to Peru.  “2009 Seems Like It Was Only Five Years Ago” was accepted into the upcoming 2025 National Prize Show, presented at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery

Christopher Swist, Lecturer in Music and Director of Recording Arts had his Prelude for Marimba,  performed at several festivals including most recently the 2025 Taipei Asia Pacific Band Association Competition.

 

 

 

Academic Year 2024-25

Christopher Houlihan, John Rose College Organist-and-Directorship Distinguished Chair of Chapel Music and Artist-in-Residence, performed in an invited solo recital, Aspen Music Festival, Colo., in July  2024; as orchestral soloist (Barber, Toccata Festiva) with the Holland Symphony Orchestra (Johannes Müller Stosch, music director and conductor) at Hope College, Mich. in September 2024; and as orchestral soloist (Hanson, Organ Concerto and Guilmant, Symphony No. 1) with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (Carolyn Kuan, Music Director and Conductor) at Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford at Trinity College in September 2024.

Professor of Fine Arts Robert Kirschbaum’s print folio/artist’s book “The 42-Letter Name” was acquired by The Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of its artists’ books collection.

 

 

 

Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, exhibited work in the solo exhibition “What If”  at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La. The exhibition continues through February 18. At right: I Would Like to Use the Photo of Jenny Wu’s Cat for My Headshot Please, 2024, latex paint and resin on wood panel (photo courtesy of the artist).

Professor Wu’s work It Turns Out That 16oz Of Coffee At 5:11 P.M. Is Too Much Coffee was awarded first prize for 35 Under 35, an exhibition juried by Ruba Katrib and was on view in July and August 2024 at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences in Loveladies, New Jersey. The 2024 work is latex paint and resin on wood panel.

Academic Year 2023-24

Michael FitzGerald, Kluger Family Professor of Art History
• Curator of the exhibition Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Life’s Work, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain, 2024-27.

Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Fine Arts
• Group exhibition: “Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity,” The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City, June 1-July 30, 2023.

Scott Reeds, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
• Intaglio print Promo Code 1  included in a group exhibition in the 2024 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, curated by Yugi Hiratsuka with catalog, Bradbury Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Ark., January-February 2024.

Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts • It Depends, second solo exhibition with Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C., February-March 2024; reviewed in The Washington Post. • Winner of Best in Show for two paintings in the 7th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, juried by Laura Blereau, at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, January 16-February 20, 2024; solo exhibition scheduled at Louisiana Tech University for 2025. • Two paintings included in the 2024 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award; won third place for A Set of Lies That Have Been Agreed On (2023); winners selected by Lauren Haynes, director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at the Queens Museum. • Solo presentation of works presented by Morton Fine Arts at Future Fair, Chelsea Industrial, May 1-4, 2024.