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.

  • Guest Artist Lecture: Greg Carideo

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

    Greg Carideo was born in 1986, in Minneapolis, MN, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis in 2008 and an MFA from New York University in 2015. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Public Gallery, London in 2025; In Lieu, Los Angeles in 2024; Foreign & Domestic, New York in 2023; FR MoCA, Fall River in 2022; and GRIMM, New York in 2021. His work has been featured in recent group exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Pangée Gallery, Montreal; 12.26 Gallery, Dallas; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal; Margot Samel, New York; Public Gallery, London; ICA, Portland; and International Objects, New York.

    Guest Artist Lecture: Alina Tenser

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

    Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, Tenser makes propositions that elicit physical activation and play. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent.

  • Guest Artist Lecture: Alex Kitnick

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

    Alex Kitnick teaches art history and criticism at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is a frequent contributor to publications including 4Columns, October, and May.

  • The Holding Pattern: Welcome Back Show 2025

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

    The fall season kicks off with this annual group exhibition featuring faculty, staff, and returning MFA students. Reception: September 3, 5–8 p.m.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Andrés Mario Zervigón

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

    Andrés Mario Zervigón is Professor of the History of Photography at Rutgers University and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal History of Photography.

    Co-Cureate 2025

    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: September 25, 6–9 p.m.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: David L. Johnson

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

    David L. Johnson is an artist based in New York City who makes work attuned to the streets of the city, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property.