VCUarts Sculpture + Extended Media

VCUarts Sculpture + Extended Media Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Sculpture and Extended Media.

08/27/2026

Sculpture and Extended Media program junior, Halima Bachir-Bouiadjra, invited us to learn more about herself, her work, and the process behind her latest solo exhibition, “A System of Exceptions”!

Halima describes her interest in the concept of paradoxes, citing that she enjoys creating work that is “trying to figure itself out”. Through collage, found objects, and humorous illogical space, Halima investigates scientific and philosophical representations with large, interactive installations.

“A System of Exceptions” opens at The Anderson Gallery tomorrow, Friday, August 28th! The opening reception will begin at 5 PM and will be on view until September 12th.

Congratulations, Halima, on your latest exhibition, and thank you for chatting with us!

VCUarts The Anderson Halima Bachir

Congratulations to our Sculpture + Extended Media Class of 2026! 🐏💛To celebrate our recent graduates, let’s look back at...
05/08/2026

Congratulations to our Sculpture + Extended Media Class of 2026! 🐏💛

To celebrate our recent graduates, let’s look back at some of the works from the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone exhibition hosted this semester at The Anderson! As part of Round Two, “Critically Endangered” featured the works of 18 Sculpture + Extended Media seniors as a culmination of their years of study with us.

We wish our recent alumni the best in all of their future endeavors, we are so proud! 🎓



With Round 2 of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition on the horizon, let’s take a closer look at works by one of our participa...
04/28/2026

With Round 2 of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition on the horizon, let’s take a closer look at works by one of our participating graduates!

MFA Candidate alexis torres marroquín 🪡

alexis torres marroquín [b. 1999, Flushing, New York] is a sculptor, architectural designer, and poet working at the threshold where structure begins to ache, where the built environment reveals itself as a site of craving, control, and indulgence. Their practice leans into eroticism not as ornament but as method, pressing into the dirty negotiations and quiet violences that shape how bodies move, gather, and are held in space. Through fiber, garment construction, and mold-making, marroquín produces architectures that feel worn, stretched, and touched, at once seductive and abject, as if the building itself could bruise.

alexis will be featured in Round Two of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening this Friday, May 1st, at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (601 W. Broad St)!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Hannah Berger 🍇Hannah Berger works in sculpture and writing to call attention to the tenuous bou...
04/17/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Hannah Berger 🍇

Hannah Berger works in sculpture and writing to call attention to the tenuous boundaries between the real and fictional, authentic and replica. Her work is interested in denaturalizing the construction of individual and collective subjectivity as it intersects with commodification, alienation, and extraction.

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Hannah will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery tonight at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Omer Shach 🫴In sculpture, painting, and installation, Shach synthesizes and transforms various e...
04/17/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Omer Shach 🫴

In sculpture, painting, and installation, Shach synthesizes and transforms various elements, exploring the internal tension that exists between them—between the material and the visionary. His work emphasizes how seemingly non-events, when treated with sensitivity, can reveal a fantastic potential.

The viewer’s initial point of contact with the work is often through its bodily proportions and the tactile experience it evokes. Through intense polishing, ambiguous functionality, and the use of unconventional materials, Shach aims to provoke a physical response and tempt the viewer into touching the piece.

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Omer will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery tonight at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Sara Willa 🧊Sara Willa is a sculptor, performer, and experimental dancemaker. Through work with ...
04/14/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Sara Willa 🧊

Sara Willa is a sculptor, performer, and experimental dancemaker. Through work with found objects, biomaterials, and performance practices, she explores embodiment, affect, material politics, and their entanglements. For her candidacy work, she will be presenting fluid mechanics: exhaust system, a durational performance and installation in the Hidden galleries at The Anderson. Performances will take place on April 17th, 5-6pm, and April 24th, 12-1pm, approx.

Willa has been supported by residencies at La Caldera (Barcelona), PLUTO (Valencia), Théâtre de Vanves (Paris), Centro Huarte (Pamplona), and The Liminal Gallery (Valencia), among others, and was a participant in the 2025 edition of the Postnatural Independent Program at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid. She has recently performed and/or exhibited at NEUFNEUF Festival (Toulouse), Chaíz Estudio (Madrid), PLUTO (Valencia), and Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporánea (Valencia). She graduated with honors in Studio Art and Dance at Pomona College (CA) and completed significant coursework in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography at the Valencia Superior Dance Conservatory prior to pursuing her MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media at VCU.

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Sara will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery on April 17th at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Headshot photo credit: Nacho Errando for PLUTO
Video footage: Will Barker

Meet the MFA Candidate: Diabou ⏳Diabou (b. Senegal) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of fabricating...
04/13/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Diabou ⏳

Diabou (b. Senegal) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of fabricating and deconstructing domestic objects to create forms that defy their original utility, amplifying her material response to inherited structures. She explores her experiences of time, labor, and memory within Senegalese households through her use of wood, metal, plastic, and sand, which speaks to the layered, replicative, and shifting nature of tradition.

Diabou was recently shown at the Every Woman Biennial 2026 in New York. She was honorably
mentioned by the International Sculpture Center for the 2025 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from Alfred University.

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Diabou will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery on April 17th at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Please join us in Sculpture/Extended Media this Friday, April 3rd, for the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone Exhibition, “Critica...
04/01/2026

Please join us in Sculpture/Extended Media this Friday, April 3rd, for the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone Exhibition, “Critically Endangered”, opening at 5 PM at the Anderson Gallery (907 1/2 W Franklin St.)!

As part of Round 2 of the 2026 BFA Capstone, “Critically Endangered” will be on display until April 11th and feature works created by our seniors as a culmination of their years of study. Come celebrate our class of 2026 as they unveil their exhibition!

Participating seniors include Leo Connors, Rebeka Carroll, Shaeley Lincoln, Kiera O’Harrow, Liam Weis, Lars Irvin, Mad John, Cristina Sayegh, Ashanti Bowman, Jonquil Moore, Christina Woods, Maya Yacob, Rocky Albright, Charlie Shaw, Garrett Kelly, Ell Laszakovits, Aidan Phalan, and Gabbie Bradburn.

Congratulations to our seniors! 🐏🎉

Featured image from previous year’s capstone.



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