Congratulations to our faculty, staff, and alums!
A new group exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum features a number of faculty and alums including Tommy Kha, Critic in Photography and MFA ‘13, Farah Al Qasimi, MFA ‘17, Alex Da Corte, MFA ‘10, Daniel Gordon, MFA ‘06, Lauren Halsey, MFA ‘14, and Lucia Hierro, MFA ‘13. Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now is open through January 10, 2027 in New York.
Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography and MFA '88, was featured in Rolling Stone this month, in a feature article about the photograph he took for Phoebe Bridgers' upcoming tour.
Olivia Reavey, Photography MFA ‘26, has work included in the group show EVIL RAT / LIVE ART / EVIL ART / LIVE RAT, open at Echo Extra Echo in New York through June 14, 2026.
In other Photography news, both Sam Gulliver, Photography MFA ‘27, and Morgan Levy, MFA '20, had their projects included on the shortlist for the PhMuseum’s 2026 Photography Grant. The 36 shortlisted projects of this edition will be screened at Lodz Fotofestiwal 2026, Kranj Foto Fest 2026 and PhMuseum Days 2026.
Lisa Kereszi, Assistant Director in Photography and MFA ‘00, has work included in the group exhibition Patchwork: Connecticut Artists Consider 250, open at the Florence Griswold Museum through November 8, 2026. Lisa’s work, alongside Victoria Sambunaris, MFA ‘99, is also included in the Manifest and Sublime opening at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York on July 9. And as part of the Connecticut Office of the Arts’ Art in Public Spaces Program, Lisa also has her 2005 archival inkjet print Wall Street Journal, Equitable Building, NYC, installed in Southern Connecticut State University’s School of Business on an ongoing basis.
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston entitled A History of Photography and the Everyday features Lisa Kereszi, Assistant Director in Photography and MFA ‘00, Dawoud Bey, MFA ‘93, and Shaun Pierson, MFA ‘23. Staged as part of FotoFest Biennial 2026, A History of Photography and the Everyday is open through July 19, 2026.
Catherine Nelson, Fabrication Shop Co-Manager, has work featured in Open Air 2026, an annual exhibition of sculpture and installation along UConn Avery Point's shoreline path, up through October 4, 2026.
A.L. Steiner, Senior Critic in Interdepartmental Studies, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Critic in Sculpture, and William Cordova, MFA ‘04, are featured in Chimera with Denniston Hill, as part of In Minor Keys, staged at the Central Pavilion as part of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia through November 22, 2026.
A.L. Steiner, Interdepartmental Senior Critic, also has work featured in the group exhibition still life small deaths at Brigitte Mulholland in Paris through July 25, 2026, as well as in Institute for Queer Ecology: I Wish We Had More Time at KunstHausWien in Vienna as part of the Klima Biennale, through August 9, 2026.
