Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Explore additional art events sponsored by the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum and the Department of Art History.

  • CANCELED – Design Lecture: Emily Sara, “Stim Aesthetics”

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Emily Sara is a queer disabled artist, designer, writer, and educator. This talk explores how this framework opens new ways of understanding aesthetics, embodiment, and how the history of art and design is intrinsically connected to disability.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    ANGELA DUFRESNE is a painter and educator based in Brooklyn. With painting, drawing, printmaking, and performative works, she creates heterotopic narratives that embrace vulnerability, contradiction and nuance.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Phil Chang

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Phil Chang is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. His work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at the Penumbra Foundation, New York, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, and at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Abigail Lucien

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Abigail Lucien (b.1992) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, writing, and time-based media, their practice addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, myth, and place by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief/care.

  • GIRA EN ESPANOL: La Galería de Rutgers, Mason Gross

    Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    GIRA EN ESPANOL: La Galería de Rutgers, Mason Gross domingo, 3 de mayo 2026 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Perennial en exhibición 25 de abril – 7 de mayo Todos están invitados a una exposición […]

    Rutgers In New York: “Spin-out”

    Westbeth Gallery 55 Bethune St, New York, NY, United States

    This capstone exhibition in New York City is the culmination of two years of study for our 10 MFA artists. Opening reception: May 30, 6–8 p.m.

  • Today and Tomorrow

    Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Department of Art & Design presents this special exhibition featuring our newest alumni from the class of 2026. Reception: Saturday, June 6, 4–6 p.m.

    Mid-day Exhibition Tour: Today and Tomorrow

    Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Need to step away from your daily routine and re-set? This 60-minute gallery walk-through features Mason Gross' newest alumni from the class of 2026, including brief presentations from select artists in the exhibition.