UF School of Art + Art History

06/01/2026

Congratulations to Charis Cochran (BFA '26, art), one of the finalists for the 36th Annual University Student Exhibition at the Atlantic Center for the Arts! Her work is currently exhibiting through August 8, 2026.

Through the annual University Student Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts honors the outstanding work being produced by state university art students and recognizes their dedication to the pursuit of excellence. The juror for this year’s exhibition was past Atlantic Center for the Arts Mentoring Artist (2022) Ryan McGinness.

For more info, go to https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/event-or-exhibition/36th-annual-university-student-exhibition/

06/01/2026

05/28/2026

🔎 Join the UF School of Art + Art History at UF College of the Arts! 📣 We're looking for an Administrative Assistant II.

🔗 Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/540033/administrative-assistant-ii

ℹ️ All application documents must be submitted by June 15, 2026.

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Administrative Assistant to join our team of 9 staff and 37 faculty members. Your role will be to provide critical support to School faculty, staff, and leadership and work closely with the College’s communications, human resources, and business offices.

Your role will be responsible for managing the School’s public relations materials, including managing the School’s social media accounts, producing weekly newsletters, and updating web content. You would be the primary administrative liaison for initiating personnel transactions, serving as the primary administrative contact for faculty and staff search needs, support travel, and managing the School’s shipping and receiving. You would also be responsible for making sure the School administrative offices are open, closed, and staffed during normal business hours, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in general office administrative functions. If you have administrative office experience, especially in higher education, government or non-profit organizations and you possess strong organizational skills, and a desire to grow professionally in a critical administrative role, this position is a wonderful opportunity for you.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who possesses skills in designing and facilitating work that advances curiosity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in an environment of complex differences. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

05/26/2026

🔎 Join the UF School of Art + Art History at the UF College of the Arts! 📣 We're looking for an Administrative Specialist III.

🔗 Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/539997/administrative-spec-iii

ℹ️ All application documents must be submitted by June 15, 2026.

This highly responsible position serves as the administrative lead for the School of Art + Art History, which houses 37 full-time faculty, 9 staff, 320 undergraduate students, and more than 120 graduate students across five academic programs and the University Galleries. Reporting to the School Director, this position functions as a key member of the School’s leadership team, working to ensure that the School’s daily and long-term goals are met in all mission-critical areas. The Administrative Specialist III optimizes all aspects of the school’s administrative functioning. The position provides leadership support and operational guidance, establishes priorities and workflows, maintains confidential information, and may act on the Director’s behalf in designated administrative matters.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who possesses skills in designing and facilitating work that advances curiosity, respect, open intellectual discourse, and the welcome incorporation and well-being of all in an environment of complex differences. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

05/22/2026

🌟OPENING RECEPTION: "Loading Proxies..."

🕕 Friday, May 29, 6:00-8:00 PM

📍4Most Gallery

Duo Art Exhibition

Lindsay Carlton (4Most Resident 2025-2026, Creative Photography Teaching Lab Specialist, & MFA '25)

Komal Goswami (SAAH Administrative Assistant & BFA '23)

“Loading Proxies…” is a duo exhibition between artists exploring the proxy as both embodied and simulated.

More info below and via arts.ufl.edu/event/loading-proxies-a-duo-art-exhibition-by-lindsay-carlton-and-komal-goswami/


UF College of the Arts

Join us for the FINAL 4Most exhibition of the season next Friday, May 29 from 6 – 8 pm for the duo exhibition, “Loading Proxies….” by Lindsay Carlton and Komal Goswami!

“Loading Proxies…” is a duo exhibition between artists exploring the proxy as both embodied and simulated.

Lindsay Carlton: My work utilizes self-portrait photography as a method of avatar performance, where I use my own body as a tool to construct and perform characters that are separate from myself; proxies rather than representations of my own identity. Through these works, I explore how femininity is performed through digital media, cinema, and the history of visual culture. Throughout my work, I also remix and reference existing imagery from popular culture, using these visual languages to construct my characters. The works exist in the tension between seduction and abjection, where femininity is both performed and distorted, exposing the constructed nature of idealized beauty.

Komal Goswami: My work employs 3D/CG generation, creative coding, and digital imaging processes to further investigate “living in the hyphen” culturally and tangibly, exploring the evolving landscape of human expression, meaning, and thought within an increasingly digitally assimilated world. These works emerge from experimentation with the detachment of the self through busts that are 3D-rendered, 3D-animated, or digitally replicated. Using my own likeness and animal-based mythic forms as source material, and referencing both Hindu and Western portrait conventions, I create abstract self-portraiture and portrait forms that deny autobiography. Instead, these figures – suspended between portrait, avatar, idol, and simulation – operate as provisional proxies through which identity and embodiment are continuously generated, processed, and displaced between the “reel” and the “real” world. 

05/21/2026

Fatimah Tuggar, a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and associate professor of artificial intelligence in the arts at UF, has always kept an eye to the future.

05/19/2026

05/11/2026

Join us this Friday, May 15 from 6 – 8 pm for the solo exhibition, “The Way Things Are” by Dylan A. Taylor!

Statement from the artist:

My art employs narrative storytelling to investigate the construction of social reality — primarily through short-form filmmaking and tableau photography. I observe how cultural and cinematic codes are arbitrarily naturalized to perpetuate a particular status quo characterized by artificiality, absurdity, and mundanity. Additionally, I explore how this contemporary discontent manifests itself as a motivation to reproduce and control the world through visual media. As representations increasingly pervade and supersede the ‘real world’, my work argues that the reality we collectively inhabit is as fabricated and narratively controlled as film itself.

In collaboration with film production crews, my practice applies the visual language and logistical operations of traditional cinema. Through this methodology, apparatus and fictionality are foregrounded — supporting an interrogative intersection between artifice and actual. Additionally, through the engagement of antimimetic narrative, I survey the properties of temporality, continuity, and metafiction in visual storytelling; this ultimately contributes to the evolving dialogue on how cinematic language can be reinterpreted across contemporary film, photography, and visual art.

05/05/2026

Rachel Silveri (Assistant Professor of Modern Art History) will give a talk on her book, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris" (University of Chicago Press, 2026), at Dale Zine in Miami, FL, this Saturday, May 9, from 3:00-5:00 PM, followed by a book signing.

With "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris," Rachel Silveri takes a fresh look at the desire to unify art and life, an ambition long regarded as foundational to the European historical avant-gardes. She reveals how many early twentieth-century artists saw their own everyday lives—their bodies, identities, and relationships—as a type of creative material and a central component to their avant-garde practice. These artists abandoned traditional forms of artmaking and venues of art viewing, instead aspiring to integrate art with everyday life, creating an “art of living.”

Considering Tristan Tzara’s performances of Dadaist identity, Sonia Delaunay’s simultaneous fashions and self-branding, and the collective endeavor to open and operate the Surrealist Research Bureau, Silveri offers a new narrative about how the artists of interwar Paris developed experiential life practices that resisted dominant forms of “lifestyle” and normative discourses surrounding gender, ethnicity, and office work. This book argues that ethical questions of “How should I live?” and “How should I relate to others?” were as important to the avant-garde as politics, and that aspirations to change the world played out in daily practices of self-making.


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