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Lens and Screen Arts Since 1988 The MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department is the premiere program for the study of Lens and Screen Arts.

For over 25 years, this fine art program has produced remarkable graduates who have flourished as exhibiting artists, journalists, and commercial artists, as well as curators, scholars, and teachers. Noted as a top-tier program in U.S. News & World Report, our educational goals attract fine art students with diverse backgrounds from all corners of the world.

09/07/2026

The MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department is pleased to present the 2026 Thesis Screening, featuring moving-image works by the graduating class.
Take a look at the trailer for Elephant in the Room by Malik Clement.

TOMORROW
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 | 6-8 PM
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Free and open to the public. We look forward to celebrating the Class of 2026 with you.

School of Visual Arts Malik

09/02/2026

The MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department is pleased to present the 2026 Thesis Screening, featuring moving-image works by the graduating class.
Take a look at the trailer for Wait and See by Tatiana Kireicheva.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 | 6–8 PM SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Free and open to the public. We look forward to celebrating the Class of 2026 with you.
School of Visual Arts Tatiana Kireicheva

07/13/2026

There’s still time to see the SVA MFA Photography, Video & Related Media 2026 Thesis Exhibition, but 💥hurry! 💥 The show is up through Wednesday, July 15th.

Here are some images of the opening reception on June 30th. Thank you to all who joined us for this wonderful evening!

SVA Chelsea Gallery
601 W. 26th St.
Suite 1502
New York, NY

Don’t miss it!!

06/30/2026

Please join us TONIGHT Tuesday, June 30th from 6-8 PM for the opening reception of the 2026 SVA MFA Photography, Video & Related Media Thesis Exhibition at the SVA Chelsea Gallery

601 W. 26th St.
Suite 1502
New York, NY

This exhibition culminates the thesis work of the class of 2026. Each student showcases their thesis projects spanning photography, video, installation, and sculpture.

The exhibition is up through July 15th
We hope to see you this evening! ✨

06/24/2026

✨Thesis Spotlight✨⁣
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Savannah Spirit⁣
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In Hello, Goodbye Savannah Spirit explores her relationship with her mother by reconfiguring an archive of images, clothing, and recordings left after her sudden death on the artist’s birthday. This rare occurrence provides an uncanny background to Spirit’s⁣
exploration of her source material, which takes a different formal approach in each⁣
section of the project. Cropping, reprinting, disassembling, reenacting her mother’s⁣
photographs, clothes, and voice recordings, Spirit teases out mixed emotions of loss⁣
and celebration while casting a moving study of the complex bonds between mothers⁣
and daughters more broadly.⁣
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Please join us on Tuesday, June 30, from 6:00-8:00 PM for the opening reception of the 2026 SVA MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Thesis Exhibition.⁣
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SVA Chelsea gallery⁣
601 W. 26th Street⁣
Suite 1502⁣
New York, NY 10001

06/18/2026

✨Thesis Spotlight✨⁣
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Luke Wu⁣
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Luke Wu explores the performance of bureaucracy in his project A Greater Enemy of⁣ Truth than Lies. Identifying specific tendencies in Chinese business and government offices, Wu highlights the paperwork, symbolic gestures, and other forms of “red tape” that foster a form of social compliance ultimately devoid of actual productivity.⁣
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Through a minimal and highly formal arrangement of objects, gestures, and color, his photographs and videos offer an absurdist critique of a culture that treats bureaucracy⁣ as an end unto itself.⁣
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Please join us on Tuesday, June 30, from 6:00-8:00 PM for the opening reception of the 2026 SVA MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Thesis Exhibition.⁣
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SVA Chelsea gallery⁣
601 W. 26th Street⁣
Suite 1502⁣
New York, NY 10001

06/17/2026

✨Thesis Spotlight✨⁣
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Lisa Chen⁣
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In Afterlight, Lisa Chen reimagines a 19 th -century spectacle through a contemporary⁣
lens, creating an evocative multimedia installation that suggests a world at the edge of visibility. Each of the objects in the project centers on a “Pepper’s Ghost” illusion,⁣
combining photography, video, and light. For the six smaller sculptures, Chen has used⁣
AI to transform her original photographs into looping videos; in the large central column,⁣
the video has been generated entirely through AI. These moving images intersect with⁣ silhouettes printed on transparent film and mounted to frosted acrylic, yielding the effect⁣ of ghostly forms that float in space. These works’ exploration of records and traces is⁣ further extended by a glowing, translucent artist book. The resulting environment tests⁣ the limits of perception, conjuring the fluid, ephemeral nature of memory.⁣
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Please join us on Tuesday, June 30, from 6:00-8:00 PM for the opening reception of the 2026 SVA MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Thesis Exhibition.⁣
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SVA Chelsea gallery⁣
601 W. 26th Street⁣
Suite 1502⁣
New York, NY 10001

05/08/2026

We are thrilled to congratulate department alumni, Brian M. Cassidy (‘07) & Melanie Shatzky (‘07) on receiving 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships!

Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky are collaborative artists working at the intersection of narrative and documentary cinema. Known for their hyper-intimate films about individuals in post-industrial landscapes, their works explore themes of loss, incarceration, mental illness, environmental upheaval, and the human-animal bond.

Their films have screened at festivals and museums around the world including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno and Rotterdam film festivals, The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, Le Musée de la Civilisation, ICA London, The Museum of the Moving Image, The Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center.

Cassidy & Shatzky are 2026 Guggenheim Fellows and have also held fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo.

04/28/2026

2025 Alum, Ari Temkin, is teaching a new course through SVA’s Continuing Education department. 👀

Experimental Artmaking with AI
Faculty: Ari Temkin
June 10 - July 29, 2026

This course invites artists to take control of emerging Al systems and build their own creative workflows. Instead of following software trends, students will learn how to design adaptable systems that connect tools such as RunwayML, Luma Al, DeepMotion, Kaiber, Pika, Avaturn, ElevenLabs, and other evolving platforms into living, flexible pipelines for artmaking.
The focus is on building systems of making that turn fragmented Al programs into unified processes supporting each artist’s vision. Through experimentation with text-to-image, video synthesis, 3D modeling, voice generation, and machine-seeing tools, we will explore how to shape Al technologies rather than be shaped by them. Each student will produce a video, animation, or image-based project that demonstrates what it means to collaborate with machines in creative, critical, and personal ways.

Link to register in bio!

02/20/2026

OPENING TOMORROW 2/21 6-9 PM

We are thrilled to highlight an exhibition organized by current student

ENCICRLES

An exhibition at the Bushwick Comminity Darkroom

334 Himrod St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Featuring work by:
Ryan Ally
James Hastur
Savannah Spirit
Sean Rosenthal
Robert (Haomo) Yan

Don’t miss it!

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