Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Mason Gross Galleries are open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hours may vary on school holidays and during winter and summer break.
Art & Design
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.
The Holding Pattern: Welcome Back Show 2025
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe fall season kicks off with this annual group exhibition featuring faculty, staff, and returning MFA students. Reception: September 3, 5–8 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Andrés Mario Zervigón
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAndrés Mario Zervigón is Professor of the History of Photography at Rutgers University and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal History of Photography.
Co-Cureate 2025
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRepresenting a hybrid of collaboration, curating, and creation, these mini-exhibitions developed by student teams and guest artists showcase art across disciplines including design, drawing, media, painting, performance, photography, print, and sculpture. Reception: September 25, 6–9 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: David L. Johnson
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesDavid L. Johnson is an artist based in New York City who makes work attuned to the streets of the city, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kristin Walsh
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesKristin Walsh earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2013 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2017.
