Curated by Anika Sabin for the class of 2023
April 17–May 12, 2023
Anika Sabin is the executive director at the Capricious Foundation, where they previously worked as editor and associate publisher. On curating the exhibitions, Sabin remarks: “We have a slate of dynamic exhibitions that really reflect the students’ rigorous and diverse work, from investigations into notions of power and spectacle, to the conditions of personhood and positionality, to the looming underpinnings of capital, whether seen through domestic artifice, architectural landscape, or the cyclical detritus of labor. These works, enmeshed in the precarious and ebbing residue of a global pandemic, are a site of fissures and foils, of re-orientation and renewal. I look forward to inviting viewers into this series of site-specific exhibitions that not only command and reveal vast interiority but draw the on-looker in, troubling the line between recognition and implication.”
April 17–21: Baillie Vensel/Shengqi Ming
April 24–28: Kyle Wilcox/Nic Anselmo/Spencer Nichols
May 1–5: Jingge Zhang/Sen-Sen Chiu
May 8–12: Eliza McKenna/Rui Dong/Tommesha Holt
Opening receptions: Mondays, 5–8pm
Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–5pm
About Pratt Institute’s MFA program in Photography
Pratt Institute’s MFA in Photography is a two-year (four-semester) terminal degree program. We serve students with interests in contemporary art practices—of all varieties—that rely heavily on the role of photographic imagery and imaging. This includes artists who use lens-based cameras; photosensitive materials and/or sensors; re-photography, aggregation, and quotation; and all approaches that fall under the umbrella of the photographic—including research and critical positions with relation to the histories and practices of photography, both still and moving.
Our pedagogy encompasses both lens- and print-based technologies alongside the history and context for the making of photographic images, objects, and installations in the 21st century. Fluency in the language and currency of images in our cultural and media landscapes is a core value of our program.
Contact: T 718 687 5372 / gradphoto [at] pratt.edu
For applicants
View admissions requirements and apply online. Pratt Institute’s Photography MFA is currently accepting applications for its second round of fall 2023 admissions. Priority will be given to those who apply by April 10.
