Calendar
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.
Events
Welcome Back Show 2026: Travel
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 2, 5–8 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Julia Yerger
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail 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.
Co-Cureate 2026
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: October 8, 6–8 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dave McKenzie
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail 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.
Steamroller Printing
Livingston Arts Building 39 Road 3, Piscataway, NJ, United StatesCome witness our student artists make large-scale woodblock prints—with a compact cement roller.
Undergraduate Annual Exhibition 2026
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis annual tradition features work across class years and media. Reception: October 22, 6–8 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Vijay Masharani
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail 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.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Joiri Minaya
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail 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.
MFA Visual Arts First-Year Exhibition 2026
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesTwo months into their graduate study, artists dive in with this annual exhibition featuring inter-disciplinary work as diverse as the class itself. Reception: November 19, 6–8 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Julia Petruska
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail 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.
