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Our SMFA community includes faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are accomplished working artists, scholars, researchers, and activists. Below is a running listing of some of their many recent exhibitions, awards, publications, and other notable accomplishments.

Professor of the Practice Cathy Lu currently has work featured in several prominent exhibitions: Spirit House at the Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, through January 26, 2025; A Garden of Promise and Dissent at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, through March 16, 2025; The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, through September 2025; and Prospect.6 New Orleans, on view through February 2, 2025.

Part-time lecturer Ria Brodell’s conversation with writer and art historian Ellen Caldwell about contemporary art, practice and pedagogy and issues around gender violence, censorship, and erasure is published in the anthology Gender Violence, Art and the Viewer: An Intervention from the Pennsylvania State University Press. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. Gonzalez.

SMFA alum Pardis Alipour has curated an exhibition at the BoConcept showroom on Newbury Street, showcasing works by 10 fellow SMFA alumni.

SMFA alumna Joan Jonas was recently awarded the prestigious Nam June Paik Prize from the Nam June Paik Art Center. Her body of work entitled They Come to Us Without a Word is now on view at the United States Pavilion in Venice, Italy.

Professor of the Practice Kendall Reiss will be involved in two significant upcoming events. On November 7, Reiss will join facilitator Francie Latour, Outreach and Communications Coordinator for Research BIPOC History (RBH), as a speaker for Cede the Space: The Urgent Work of Decentering Whiteness in Projects Honoring the Enslaved, a participatory session at the New England Museum Association Conference in Newport, RI. On November 15, Reiss will moderate a panel on similar themes at the National Humanities Conference in Providence, RI, featuring Francie Latour, RBH Descendant Advisor Isaac Gilliard, and RBH/Tufts Student Assistant Researcher Jingxuan (William) Zhuang.

SMFA alumni Evelyn Rydz and Gabriel Sosa have both recently received the Boston Artadia Award.

Indigo Conat-Naar, CD '21, will present a solo exhibition titled again, forever at the Boston Sculptors Gallery’s Launchpad from November 7 to December 8, with an opening reception on November 16.

Yining Lee, MFA '25, is currently featured in a national juried exhibition titled Storytellers at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, MA, which will be on view until November 3.

Juyon Lee, MFA ’22, will showcase her work in multiple upcoming exhibitions. Her two-person show with artist Simona Pries, titled Something Between Air and Light, opens at TCNJ Gallery at The College of New Jersey with an Artist Talk on Wednesday, October 30 at 4 pm, followed by a reception from 5-7 pm. Lee will also participate in Open Studios at LMCC Arts Center on Saturday, December 7, and her work will be featured in Cosmic Connections, an auction and exhibition opening on December 6 at Stove Works' Red Dot Gallery.