Columbia University School of the Arts Sound Art Program

Columbia University School of the Arts Sound Art Program The Sound Arts Program attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world.

They join a vigorous community, working alongside an exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research institution in New York City. MFA Sound Arts is an interdepartmental program offered by Columbia University School of the Arts in association with the Department of Music and the Computer Music Center. Columbia University has been at the helm of sound innovation for over 50 years, with faculty spe

cializing in composition, improvisation, installation, sculpture, electronic music, acoustics, music cognition and software development. Sound Arts students work closely with faculty from Composition, Ethnomusicology, the Computer Music Center, and Visual Arts, and have access to production facilities and equipment including a recording studio, rehearsal room, electronics lab, and wood, metal and ceramics shops. Prospective students with a deep engagement with sound as medium and a desire to join a diverse community of artists and musicians are encouraged to apply. Please contact the School of the Arts Admissions Office at [email protected] for more information, or visit the Sound Arts website.

Come hear and see! The Class of 2027 First Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Erica DiBenedetto and presented in collaborat...
03/21/2026

Come hear and see! The Class of 2027 First Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Erica DiBenedetto and presented in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, will open on March 29 and present the work of 31 emerging visual and sound artists. Please join us in celebrating the work of Leo Gevisser (), Gaia Heichal, and Ben Shirken (.wiish).

The opening reception will be on Saturday March 28th, from 3 pm to 6 pm. See you soon!

Spotlight on Andrea Moreno, whose work will be included in the 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition at the...
04/13/2025

Spotlight on Andrea Moreno, whose work will be included in the 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts from April 27 to May 25, 2025.

Andrea Moreno is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video, and sculpture. Her practice explores the relationship between the Other—the unknown, the nonexistent, the occult—and the human experience. Drawing from the materiality, shape, and movement of organic forms, she explores mysticism, spirituality, and the esoteric, shaping anthropomorphic organisms that challenge perception and invite new ways of seeing.

Moreno hopes to invite contemplation on the unseen and the alien, provoking shifts in understanding and connection. Andrea is based in Brooklyn, NY, and holds a BFA in Art + Technology from the University of Florida and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.

Come hear and see! The highly anticipated 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition is approaching. This exhibi...
04/09/2025

Come hear and see! The highly anticipated 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition is approaching. This exhibition, curated by Amal Issa and in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, will take over two floors of the Lenfest Center for the Arts from April 27 to May 25, 2025, and will present the incredible culminating work of our Visual Arts and Sound Art MFA candidates.

See the full list of artists, gallery hours, and more here:
https://www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/spring-2025-events/visual-arts-sound-art-thesis-exhibition

Wallach Art Gallery

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

09/26/2024

We are thrilled to announce tonight’s opening reception of 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭, curated by Barbara London and organized by Independent Curators International, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (6 – 8 PM)!

“Seeing Sound” is an expansive exhibition that explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice. The exhibition features ten artists––Seth Cluett, Juan Cortés, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Auriea Harvey, bani haykal, Yuko Mohri, Marina Rosenfeld, Aura Satz, and Samson Young.

A special congratulations to our longtime collaborators: Seth Cluett, Barbara London, and Aura Satz 

Seeing Sound 
September 27 – December 17, 2024
Pratt Manhattan Gallery





tonight! 4/27 in Portland, Oregon! Matt Hannafin, Loren Chasse and members of Extradition present the world premiere of ...
04/27/2024

tonight! 4/27 in Portland, Oregon! Matt Hannafin, Loren Chasse and members of Extradition present the world premiere of my work 'no small matter' for a very nice table and some plants

Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, Extradition is both an ensemble and a concert series, presenting music that exists at the intersection of composition, improvisation, clarity, and silence.

Come hear and see the Class of 2024 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, cura...
04/19/2024

Come hear and see the Class of 2024 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, curated by Fawz Kabra.

Featuring, along with Columbia Visual Arts, the class of 2024 sound artists:
A.M. DeVito, Colm Keady-Tabbal, and Julian Zehnder

On view Sunday, April 21, 2024, 12:00 PM through Sunday, May 19, 2024, 6:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 pm

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

04/11/2024
Last day to see the Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition at the , featuring (alongside ) first year sound art student...
04/07/2024

Last day to see the Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition at the , featuring (alongside ) first year sound art students:

MILES SCHARFF
the taking apart, the sawing in half (2024)
Acrylic, steel, copper wire, handmade circuits, microwave transformers
“Miles is a sound artist and musician who’s work lies in improvisation, spatial audio, and sound sculpture. His work seeks to create viscerality from ephemerality through presenting and exaggerating interactions between sound and material, treating sound as a physical object. This is ultimately an investigation of the properties of sound signals, both audible, non-audible, and of the inner ear, and how those properties can define listening, presence, and the invasion of privacy.”

YUEYANG LUO
Untangling Entanglement (2024)
Participating workshop and documentation display
“Yueyang Luo is an artist, a student, a potential migrant, and a Chinese female. Currently studying at Columbia Sound Art MFA program, her work is situated in event, action and built environments, which its output resembles the form of (interactive) installation incorporating sound, moving image, and object of interest.Her recent project “Untangling Entanglement” is a excavation of potentiality of
cables, focusing on the object as media, and the gesture of un-tanglement.“

ANDREA MORENO
Oraculum (2024)
Metal, wood, plaster, clay, transducers, speakers, air pump
“I expand upon worldbuilding and atypical realities aligning with my interests in mysticism, and how these practices are typically rendered as spiritual phenomena and are not physically embodied. I create a space where encounters occur between the human and preconceived non-human. 
Currently, I depict encounters with anthropomorphic forms and investigate the sociocultural phenomena in how humans interact, examine, and identify species homogeneity, with human-made ‘other’.”

Come hear & see! The Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Amy Sadao! 30 first-year students in the Visual...
03/18/2024

Come hear & see! The Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Amy Sadao! 30 first-year students in the Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Program will have their work displayed at the Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts from March 23 through April 7. Join us for an opening reception on March 22 at 6pm!

Featuring Sound Artists:
Yueyang Luo
Andrea Moreno
Miles Scharff

More details:

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the Class of 2025’s First Year Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

DEC 16-17: Columbia University School of the Arts proudly presents the Sound Art classes of 2024 and 2025 in an exhibiti...
12/13/2023

DEC 16-17: Columbia University School of the Arts proudly presents the Sound Art classes of 2024 and 2025 in an exhibition at the . Curated by Aïda Sidhoum, the exhibit features A.M. DeVito, Colm Keady-Tabbal, Yueyang Luo, Andrea Moreno, Miles Scharff, and Julian Zehnder.

Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

.zehnder .devito

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