2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Art, Work, Agency
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University opens its 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions (February 28 - April 27) with a seven-week series of concurrent solo shows by 29 second-year students.
Collectively, the works reflect a variety of discipline-centric and mixed-media practices that celebrate visual narratives and explore the interplay of diverse materials, digital processes as a companion to hand fabrication, draftsmanship in printmaking, and multicultural perspectives and personal identity in graphic design, illustration, and UX/UI design.
“The depth and breadth of these works is incredible and inspiring," said Associate Professor Sharyn O’Mara, Director for the Master of Fine Arts program. "They demonstrate deep engagement in a broad range of contemporary issues that explore past, present, and future images and imaginaries, objects, and mediations. They both expand within and defy traditional disciplinary boundaries, and the results are powerful, provocative, political, and poetic.”
When they graduate, Tyler’s MFA Class of 2024 will join a community of distinguished alumni that includes Moe Brooker (MFA ’72); Syd Carpenter (MFA ’76), Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA ’79); Harriete Estel Berman (MFA ’80); Virgil Marti (MFA ’90); Anoka Faruqee (MFA ’97); Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA ’00); Will Villalongo (MFA ’01); Erin Riley (MFA ’09); Amber Cowan (MFA ’11), Sijia Chen (MFA '11), Kara Springer (MFA ’17), Warith Taha (MFA ’20), and Isaac Scott (MFA '21), among others.
The MFA Thesis Exhibitions schedule is as follows:
February 28 – March 2: John Erwin Dillard, Molly Burt-Westvig
March 13 – March 16: Theophilus Annor, Maxwell Davis, Blithe Ophelia Grey
March 20 – March 23: Elliot Engles, Ollie Goss, Jake Lahah, William Toney
March 27 – March 30: Anne Adams, Anna Bockrath, Brendan O'Shaughnessy, Ryan Scails
April 3 – April 5: Claire HarnEnz, Alessandra Puglisi, Katharine Suchan, Ramon Antonio Vega
April 10 – April 13: Bradford Davis, Daniel Cappello, Juhyung Park, Yaqeen Alyamani
April 17 – April 20: Noa Hagiladi, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Heather Annette Phillips, Henry Rosenberg
April 24 – April 27: MeiLi Carling, Mike Ray, Nghi To, Ha Tran
Location: Temple Contemporary, 2001 N. 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
Exhibition Receptions: Fridays, 6–8 p.m. February 28 – April 27, 2024
Gallery Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 12 – 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Details regarding upcoming shows are announced on Tyler's Events Calendar.
View past MFA Thesis Exhibitions on STELLA, Tyler's virtual satellite gallery.