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Category: Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: One Moment in a Conversation: Sculptors at the Studio School
At the School, learning is making and making is thinking. Material is concept, questioned to reveal ideas that could not appear in any other language. Meaning is not illustrated by the work. It arrives through it.
October 14, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Grey Point
The New York Studio School is pleased to present Grey Point, an exhibition of paintings and works on view from October 2 through October 15, 2026. Uncertainty is a universal condition. What can be built from the networks we already have, the people we know, and the work we encounter? How do we decide what belongs together, what matters, and what deserves attention?
October 1, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: fruit or flowers or even clouds
Manet’s defense of the art of still life and of painting seemingly straightforward subjects or mundane motifs inspired this grouping of works.
March 5, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Two Ships Passing in the Night
This two-person exhibition pairs drawings and paintings by Alex Maceda and Liam Murphy-Torres. The show’s title refers to the artists’ divergent processes: one moving from experience toward abstraction, the other from abstraction toward experience.
February 20, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Held by the Grid
NYSS presents “Held by the Grid,” the Virtual Certificate Exhibition, from February 6 -19, 2026. The show brings together works by students from across the country working in a range of media.
February 2, 2026 · Student Gallery
![[RSVP FULL] We are currently at capacity for Bob Nickas' lecture, "Has Contemporary Art Run Its Course?", happening tonight on October 14th, 2026. There will be overflow space open in the downstairs gallery.
A critic and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than 130 exhibitions since 1984. He was on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993, the 7th Bienal d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2003, and Greater New York 2005, at MoMA/PS1, where he served as Curatorial Advisor between 2004-07. Along with Peter Halley, he was founding Editor of Index magazine, which he helmed between 1996-2000. His writing has been widely published and translated, and five collections of essays and interviews have been published to date: Live Free Or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Komplaint Dept. (2018), and Corrected Proofs (2023). He also published a yearlong daily diary, Yesterworld, (2022). In 2024, he founded the New York Art Critics Association.
At MoMA/PS1, Nickas organized the first U.S. museum survey exhibitions for Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom Sandberg, and Peter Hujar, as well as curated projects with Mike Cloud, Trisha Donnelly and Torbjorn Rodland. A prolific writer, he has authored and contributed to numerous monographs and books, among them for On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Walsh, Stephen Shore, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Collier, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tomma Abts, Robert Grosvenor, Vija Celmins, Salvo, Peter Bradley, and Kathleen Ryan.
Nickas has lectured at many museums, art schools, and universities over the past forty years, and taught at Columbia University and New York University.
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