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.

  • Co-Cureate 2026

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

    Representing 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 States

    Dave McKenzie explores how public space and the private self are simultaneously alienated, connected, and restricted.

    Steamroller Printing

    Livingston Arts Building 39 Road 3, Piscataway, NJ, United States

    Come 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 States

    This 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 States

    In his studio practice, Vijay Masharani makes videos and drawings on an ongoing basis, in a manner resembling life writing. In his critical writing, he comments on art, politics, illness, literature, and race.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: Joiri Minaya

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

    Joiri Minaya is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity.

    MFA Visual Arts First-Year Exhibition 2026

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

    Two 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 States

    Julia Petruska's research focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge in the 19th- and 20th-century United States. She has specific interests in forecasting and ideas about the future, risk and catastrophe, and data practices.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: Abbey Williams

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

    Abbey Williams is an artist who mostly makes videos. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including TATE Britain, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Hai-Wen Lin

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

    Hai-Wen Lin's work addresses autobiographical narrative and constructions of the body, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day in your favorite dress.