Exhibitions

The School of Art galleries in Green Hall provide a year-round forum for the exhibition of work by students, faculty, and special guests in the four graduate departments of the School and the undergraduate program.

Green Hall Gallery at 1156 Chapel Street is open to Yale community members. Receptions are the only time the galleries are open to the general public.

Time Again — 2nd-Year MFA Show

Green Hall Gallery

September 13–28, 2025

Public reception on Friday, September 19 from 6-8PM

Featuring work by 2nd-year MFA students across all four areas of graduate study: Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.

Exhibiting artists include Izza Alyssa, Aru Apaza, Christian Badach, Gabrielle N. Báez, Taisha Carrington, Amy Chasse, Rebecca Cheng, Yuna Cho, Faith Couch, Cameron Patricia Downey, Ellen Fabini, Ian Faden, Amy Fang, Mar Figueroa, Camille Gwise, Kimberly Heard, Hana Jelovšek, David Jung, Hasti Kasraei, Heejae Kim, Joy Li, Inkpa Mani, Atefe Moeini, Hazal Özgür, Cierra Peters, Christopher Postlewaite, Olivia Reavey, Vernando Reuben, John Shen, Sok Song, Leyla Tonak, Yuwei Tu, Alixe Turner, Em Wall, Amy Wang, Faye Wei Wei, Chen Xiangyun, Priscilla Young, Wenqing Zhai, Xiwen Zhang, and Hongting Zhu.

Aquatint, Burnishing, Chine Collé, Hard Ground, Soap Ground, Soft Ground, Spit Bite, Sugar Lift, Water Bite

Wingate Studio exhibition, curated by Meleko Mokgosi

32 Edgewood Gallery

August 20 – September 12, 2025

Public reception: Thursday, September 4 from 4-6PM

“Drawing is the opening of form. This can be thought in two ways: opening in the sense of a beginning, departure, origin, dispatch, impetus, or sketching out, and opening in the sense of an availability or inherent capacity. According to the first sense, drawing evokes more the gesture of drawing than the traced figure. According to the second, it indicates the figure’s essential incompleteness, a non-closure or non-totalizing of form. In one way or another, the word drawing retains a dynamic, energetic, and incipient value that does not exist in words like painting, film, or cinema.”

– Jean-Luc Nancy, The Pleasure of Drawing

It can be argued that as a practice, printmaking is structured around the idea of drawing – both conceptual and practical. Like drawing, the image in printmaking appears and disappears through the act of making. The printmaker applies and removes lines, colour, textures, and tone; and continues the manipulation of the image through paper selection, ink viscosity or translucency, wiping the plate, and how much pressure the press applies to the plate. And much like drawing, the suffix “-ing” in printmaking is fundamental because it continuously points us to the fact that the practice centers on the act of doing, an action. This emphasis on process, the relationship between a body and the mark it creates, allows us to ask meaningful ontological questions about how our relationship to image making is connected to our bodies.

For many artists, experimentation and creation through printmaking is done in collaboration with a master printer, who holds key historical and technical knowledge about most things that will go into producing the project. By collaborating, the artist and master printer in principle agree to relinquish some power, therefore entering a process that relies on speculation and contingency; and professing their willingness to trust and respect the knowledge that someone brings to the table. Within this context, the artist and the print studio are able to create profound projects that have lasting effects on the field. This has and continues to be the case in numerous collaborations between artists and Wingate Studios. As a studio that has advanced full color intaglio printmaking, Wingate specializes in unique projects, closely collaborating with each artist to ensure that the processes and materials used in each project are sensitive to and adhere to each artist’s practice.

This exhibition brings together a selection of projects to celebrate and honor the collaborative spirit in printmaking, offering a view into processes and the various ways in which artists collaborate with Wingate Studio. In addition, this exhibition also marks the 40th anniversary of Wingate Studio, which first opened in 1985 as a print workshop where founder Peter Pettengill printed work for Louise Bourgeois, Walton Ford, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, and other artists. Wingate Studio began publishing its own prints in the mid ’90s by New England-based artists and has since expanded its publishing program to include artists of international acclaim, including Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ambreen Butt, Walton Ford, Josephine Halvorson, Barbara Takenaga, Marie Watt, Paula Wilson, and many others. Wingate Studio continues to work in both modalities, printing both editions for other publishers and galleries, and publishing its own prints in collaboration with contemporary artists. The press is renowned for its specialization and technical expertise in the age-old process of multiple plate aquatint etching. In 2013, Peter’s son, James Pettengill joined Wingate and now serves as the studio’s owner and director. Since 2023, Leo Zhao has occupied the roles of master printer and gallery manager.

Join us on Thursday, September 4 from 4-6PM for the exhibition’s public reception, and on Friday, September 12 at 12:30PM for special exhibition programming, “Walton Ford in conversation with Peter Pettengill and James Pettengill.” This exhibition was curated by Meleko Mokgosi, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking.

2nd-Year MFA Exhibition

September 13 - 28, 2025

Public reception: Friday, September 19th from 6–8PM

Undergraduate Show

October 11 – 26, 2025

Public reception: Friday, October 24th from 6–8PM

1st-Year MFA Exhibition

November 8 – 25, 2025

Public reception: Friday, November 14th from 6–8PM

Yale School of Art’s Fall 2025 receptions are open to the public. During all other gallery hours, exhibitions are only open to the Yale Community (current ID holders) and their invited accompanied guests.

Find all upcoming receptions on our public events calendar here >

YALE COMMUNITY & INVITED, ACCOMPANIED GUESTS

Fall 2025 Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday: 12-6PM; Saturday & Sunday: 12-4PM.