Bard MFA Presents 2026 Thesis Exhibition in Barrytown, NY
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"Reassembly: The Class of 2027 Thesis Performances and Exhibition" will be held in the Bard College Massena Exhibition Center from July 11-19, 2026.
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Reassembly: the Class of 2027 Thesis Exhibition, which brings the culminating work of 3rd-year MFA candidates to the Bard College main campus in Annendale-on-Hudson, NY, and the newly-acquired Massena Exhibition Center in Barrytown, NY. Reassembly will begin with an evening of performances at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus at 7pm on Friday, July 10th. The exhibition’s opening reception at Massena will take place on Saturday, July 11th. Reassembly will remain on view through Sunday, July 20th.
“The exhibition demonstrates a wide breadth of contemporary approaches to art-making,” writes Mike Curran, the exhibition coordinator. “But among their common interests are a remaking of seemingly stable artistic conventions, a reimagining of social structures, and a remixing of inherited grammars. Within this framework, the Massena Campus itself has become a site of reassembly.”
“In a context where political, social, and ecological crises accelerate at a rapid speed, the demands placed on art to act as an antidote have become increasingly incoherent. Resisting these conditions, the works invite you to move through the exhibition with intention and invest in their provocations.”
Bard MFA Class of 2027:
Ihab S Balla, Nico Cadena, Madeline Casteel, Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Dominic Coles, Michael Dikta, ruby aiyo gerber, Alexis Gideon, Brooke Holm, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Maite Iribarren Vázquez, Maren Jensen, Kehan Lai, Audrey Landgren, Weihui Lu, Shea Lynch, marlow magdalene, Leila Mesdaghi, Saiya Miller, Ankita Mishra, Sean Morel, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Marina Papazyan, Río Sofia, Helena Tan, Robbie Wing, JinJin Xu, Syd Yocom
Reassembly
July 11, July 19, 2026 Opening reception: Saturday, July 11, 1-4pm The Massena Campus of Bard College 30 Seminary Drive, Barrytown, New York
Thesis Performances: Friday, July 10, 7pm Olin Hall, 35 Henderson Cir Dr, Red Hook, NY 12571
Mike R. Curran is a curator and arts writer originally from Maine who lived in the Twin Cities for the past decade. He is now based in Kingston, New York. He is a 2026 graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard).
Founded in 1981 as the first of its kind, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts low-residency MFA brings together students and faculty in 6 disciplines: Moving Image, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing for a unique interdisciplinary program. Students are immersed in a diverse community of artists for three 8-week summer sessions on the Bard College campus interspersed with independent study periods. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the program.
For more information visit: bard.edu/mfa.