MFA thesis exhibitions 2020

Yale School of Art hosts its annual MFA thesis exhibitions featuring work from all 2020 MFA degree candidates across the school’s four departments: painting/printmaking, sculpture, photography, and graphic design. The culmination of two years of intensive artistic development, the six exhibitions showcase the results of a studio-based education integrated within a broad pedagogical framework that stresses the significance of critical practice. All thesis exhibitions and receptions are open to the public and located in the school’s Green Hall Gallery at 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven. The gallery will be open to the public throughout the spring semester Mondays through Fridays, from 9am–4pm.

MFA thesis exhibition dates

Painting/Printmaking Group One: January 25–30
Reception: Saturday, January 25, 6–8pm

Painting/Printmaking Group Two: February 8–12, 14
Reception: Saturday, February 8, 6–8pm

Sculpture Group One: February 29–March 4, 6
Reception: Saturday, February 29, 6–8pm

Sculpture Group Two: March 28–April 1, 3
Reception: Saturday, March 28, 6–8pm

Graphic Design: April 25–May 2
Reception: Saturday, May 2, 6–8pm

Photography: May 9–19
Reception: Saturday, May 9, 6–8pm

Participating artists

Painting/Printmaking Group One:
James Bartolacci, Tim Brawner, Kevin Brisco, Krystal DiFronzo, Sara Emsaki, Trevon Latin, Aryana Minai, Edd Ravn, Kern Samuel, Rebecca Shippee, Kathia St.Hilaire

Painting/Printmaking Group Two:
Hangama Atiqullo, Mariel Capanna, José Chavez-Verduzco, Taylor Clough, Naomi Lisiki, Victoria Martinez, Africanus Okokon, José de Jesus Rodriguez, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Carly Sheehan, Chiffon Thomas, Ye Qin Zhu

Sculpture Group One:
Efrat Lipkin, Peyton Sarah Peyton, Sam Shoemaker, Karinne Smith, Anne Wu

Sculpture Group Two:
Genevieve Goffman, Lauren Lee, Randi Renate, Anna Miller, David Roy, Alex Zak

Graphic Design:
Kyla Arsadjaja, Maria Candanoza, Laura Huaranga, Cindy Hwang, Jinu Hong, Zhiyan Huang, Dawoon Jeon, Jeongwoo Kim, Kang Ma, Tuan Quoc Pham, Steven Rodriguez, Julia Schäfer, Yuanbo Wang, Bryant Wells, Nicholas Weltyk, Sam Wood, Orysia Zabeida, Wenwen Zhang

Photography:
Angela Chen, Deangelo Christian, Robert Andy Coombs, Rory Hamovit, Elizabeth Hibbard, Dawn Kim, Morgan Levy, Jane Lowe, Allison Minto, Jiajun Wang

About Yale School of Art
Yale School of Art provides students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. A full-time faculty of working artists in conjunction with a diverse cross-section of accomplished visiting artists collaborate to design a program and foster an environment where the unique talents and perspectives of individual students can emerge and flourish.

The school currently offers graduate degrees and undergraduate majors in the areas of graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.