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: Hanneline Røgeberg

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

    Hanneline Røgeberg's work mines the possibilities of representation in language, history and trauma, and has been featured nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the MIT List Center, and at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other venues.

    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

    Virtual Events

    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. This is a virtual event.

    Everyday in Practice: Fluxus and Rutgers

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

    Film screening focusing on the Fluxus artists who taught at Rutgers in the 1970. Plus: a panel of alumni artists discussing the effect that this experimental spirit has had on their work and on the broader art world.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: Joiri Minaya

    Virtual Events
    Virtual Event

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

    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: Jamie Pietruska

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

    Jamie Pietruska'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.