SMFA Highlights

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.

Lecturer Anthony Hamboussi is participating in the Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives exhibition through October 16 at the SUNY Stony Brook University Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives features twelve artists that center stories at the fringe of public attention.

Lecturer Lizi Brown's virtual exhibition Growth Spurts, Knobs, and Knuckles: An Environment of Trees is available on the Arnold Arboretum's website through October 24. The show is a fundraiser for the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. For more information, visit Lizi Brown's website.

Professor of the Practice Charles Goss, MFA '76, will be having a solo show at Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy from September 23 - October 29. This exhibition will serve as a mini-retrospective of the last 45 years of Charles’s work in sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, film-making, writing, and photography, including new pieces reacting and responding to his recent Covid Cave Series as well as the premiere of his film Everything I Don’t Know.

Julia Kwon, MFA '16, is participating in the group exhibition Amplify at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art through October 24, 2021.

Julia Kwon, MFA '16, has had her work become a part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.

Board of Advisors member Lorie Hamermesh has an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Naga in Boston entitled DESIRE/SHAME. The exhibition will be on view September 7 through October 2.

Gabriel Sosa, MFA '16, has been named the Deputy Director of the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA.

Professor of the Practice Tanya Crane's piece "Big Pimpin'" was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This piece is also featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine.

Student Brigitte Grover has work included in an exhibition entitled Flora at Gallery 263 in Cambridge. This group exhibition was juried by Mark Dion and is on view through June 19.

Samantha Nye, BFA ‘11, has an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston entitled My Hearts in a Whirl. It will be on view from June-October 2021.

Helina Metaferia, MFA ‘15, has an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston entitled Helina Metaferia: Generations. It will be on view from November 2021–April 2022.

Helina Metaferia, MFA ‘15, has been accepted into the Drawing Center’s (NYC) 20/21 Viewing Program, a new initiative that builds on the organization’s forty-year history of offering support to contemporary artists.