Faculty Work

Keith Obadike

Watch the live stream of GuideStar, an art installation by Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike that featured an array of vibrant, primary-colored laser beams projected from the Space Needle into Seattle's night sky on 3/14/2025. This project was supported by a Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seed grant.

Leslie Brack

The work of Art Lecturer Leslie Brack is the featured illustration in this article about the LA fires.

Michael Ashkin

Photographs and models/sculptures by Art Professor Michael Ashkin are on display at Foyer LA through 3/9.

Michael Ashkin

Art Professor Michael Ashkin's latest publication reorganizes and adds to his original 133 panoramic images of the New Jersey Meadowlands originally commissioned by Okwui Enwezor for Documenta 11 in 2002.

Jen de los Reyes

Explore the work of Corita Kent through a lens of teaching and community-building, paired with the work of contemporary artists including Art Associate Professor Jen de los Reyes.

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Featured in the Cornell Chronicle, the exhibition includes an interactive bell tower by Art Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas, one of six featured projects which aim to create a more inclusive commemorative landscape on the mall.

Jolene Rickard

Named one of the Best Art Books of 2022 by New York Times Art Critic Holland Cotter, this exhibition catalog includes an essay by Art Associate Professor Jolene Rickard.

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Revisit Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's interactive project exploring private and intriguing places through a documentary of its presentation during the Birmingham 2022 Festival.

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Trust will make its U.K. premiere, asking participants to examine the promises we make to one another, the vows we take, and the pledges made by our civic leaders.

Nidaa Aboulhosn

A digital preview of her forthcoming photobook Kharita (the Arabic word for roadmap) showcases photographs and drawings that blend the real and the imagined. This cryptic roadmap is a symbolic search for "home."

Carl Ostendarp

A group show featuring the work of Associate Professor Carl Ostendarp, Department of Art, opens January 28 at Galerie Anke Schmidt in Cologne, Germany.

Paul Ramírez Jonas

The new public art initiative Beyond Granite invites artists to explore what it means to imagine, build, live, and grow with monuments.

Dan Torop

Assistant Professor of Art Dan Torop offers reflections on the work of Robert Smithson, DALL-E 2 software, and more as part of this temporary installation.

Michael Ashkin, Leslie Brack

Art faculty Michael Ashkin and Leslie Brack are part of this evolving group exhibition, a meditation on cultural memory and its relationship to the art object.

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas offers a deeper look into his public art project, presented in Birmingham and New York City, during a keynote hosted by eCornell.

Leeza Meksin

Published by Space Sisters Press, the monograph features 80 color plates of Meksin's site-specific sculpture Turret Tops at The deCordova and images of previous art installations from 2007 to 2021, along with essays.

Sean Anderson

The Cornell Chronicle previews an exhibition curated by Architecture Associate Professor Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. '96) that showcases work by 20 artists and architects whose views of the built environment defy boundaries.

Dan Torop

A brief but comprehensive look at various kinds of eruptions encountered by the artist on her travels, published by ASRM4, a collective which includes Art Assistant Professor Dan Torop.