2023 MFA thesis exhibitions

Yale School of Art hosts its annual MFA thesis exhibitions featuring work from all 2023 MFA degree candidates across the school’s four departments: painting/printmaking, sculpture, photography, and graphic design. The culmination of two years of intensive artistic development, the six exhibitions showcase the results of a studio-based education integrated within a broad pedagogical framework.

All thesis exhibitions and receptions are held in the school’s Green Hall Gallery at 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven. 

Members of the public are invited into the galleries for our public receptions taking place on February 3, February 17, March 10, March 31, April 14, and April 29, 2023 all from 6pm–8pm. During regular operating hours the gallery is open only to the Yale Community and their invited accompanied guests. 

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information on our thesis exhibitions. Information and images will be added throughout the semester to this website, and you can learn more about the individual artists and designers that make up the class of 2023. 

MFA thesis exhibition dates
Painting/Printmaking group one: January 30–February 6
Public reception: Friday, February 3, 6–8pm

Painting/Printmaking group two: February 15–22
Public reception: Friday, February 17, 6–8pm

Sculpture group one: March 4–11
Public reception: Friday, March 10, 6–8pm

Sculpture group two: March 27–April 2
Public reception: Friday, March 31, 6–8pm

Photography: April 11–18
Public reception: Friday, April 14, 6–8pm

Graphic Design: April 25–May 2
Public reception: Saturday, April 29, 6–8pm

Participating artists
Painting/Printmaking group one: Alexandria Couch, Stephano Espinoza Galarza, Daniela Gomez Paz, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Soren Hope, Christopher Paul Jordan, Fiza Khatri, Estelle Maisonett, Tura Oliveira, Can Yağız, Ang Ziqi Zhang. Painting/Printmaking group two: Emmanuel Amoakohene, Hunter Foster, Rina Goldfield, Nina Hartmann, Erick Alejandro Hernández, Natia Lemay, Phoebe Little, Maya Perry, Gabriela Rassi, Bryan Ali Sanchez, María Vargas Aguilar. Sculpture group one: Justin Allen, David Bordett, Madison Donnelly, Dominique Duroseau, Omar Fidel Garcia, Paloma Izquierdo. Sculpture group two: Camilla Carper, Bailey Connolly, Anat Keinan, Younes Kouider, SR Lejeune, Stephen Lordan. Photography: Davion Alston, Hobbes Ginsberg, Arielle Gray, Natalie Ivis, Sydney Mieko King, Xi Li, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Miraj Patel, Shaun Pierson, Sophie Schwartz. Graphic Design: Paul Bille, Filip Birkner, Samantha Callahan, Andrew Connors, Sarah Elawad, Osvald Landmark, M.C. Madrigal, Jisung Park, Yuseon Park, Kyle Richardson, Ainsley Romero, Lester Rosso, Junyi Shi, David Jon Walker, Yifan Wang, Cat Wentworth, Avery Youngblood.

About Yale School of Art
Yale School of Art provides students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. A full-time faculty of working artists in conjunction with a diverse cross-section of accomplished visiting artists collaborate to design a program and foster an environment where the unique talents and perspectives of individual students can emerge and flourish.

The school currently offers graduate degrees and undergraduate majors in the areas of graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.