Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule. Check back in mid-August for the fall 2025 schedule.
Art & Design
Chromatic Canopies: A Student-Created Public Art Installation in Helyar Woods
The site-specific installation at Rutgers Gardens is a collective effort to help capture the beauty of Helyar Woods and to provide insight into the environment surrounding it.
ALL THAT’S HIDDEN: MFA Thesis II Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesOur MFA visual artists present work in a variety of media. Reception: February 20, 6–9 p.m.
Guest Artist Lecture: Graham Wilson
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesGraham Wilson founded Swivel Gallery in January 2021; he designed, built and opened the first gallery venue in Nostrand 329 Avenue in an unconventional space, turning the once Restoration Tabernacle into a powerful incubator for emerging artists.
Patchwork: BFA Visual Arts Thesis I Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesReception: March 27, 6–9 p.m. Closed March 15–23 for Spring Break.
Guest Artist Lecture: Greg Carideo
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesGreg Carideo was born in 1986, in Minneapolis, MN, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis in 2008 and an MFA from New York University in 2015. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Public Gallery, London in 2025; In Lieu, Los Angeles in 2024; Foreign & Domestic, New York in 2023; FR MoCA, Fall River in 2022; and GRIMM, New York in 2021. His work has been featured in recent group exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Pangée Gallery, Montreal; 12.26 Gallery, Dallas; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal; Margot Samel, New York; Public Gallery, London; ICA, Portland; and International Objects, New York.
Guest Artist Lecture: Alina Tenser
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlina Tenser is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, Tenser makes propositions that elicit physical activation and play. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent.
Do Disturb: BFA Visual Arts Thesis II Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesOur BFA visual artists present work in a variety of media. Reception: April 10, 6–9 p.m.
Guest Artist Lecture: Alex Kitnick
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlex Kitnick teaches art history and criticism at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is a frequent contributor to publications including 4Columns, October, and May.
Sojourn: BFA Design Thesis Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesWork by our undergraduate designers. Reception: May 1, 6–9 p.m.
RUTGERS IN NEW YORK: “Following the Trace”
This capstone exhibition in New York City is the culmination of two years of study for our 17 MFA artists. Opening reception: June 7, 6–8 p.m.