Past

Past Exhibitions

Visible Communication
March 28 – June 6, 2025

Co-curated by Alexandra Tell and Marisa Malone
Featuring works from the Baruch College Art Collection by Mary Ascher, Sarah Charlesworth, Juan Downey, Jannis Kounellis, Martha Rosler, and Andy Warhol

 

 

 

Roots and Tides: Black Cinemas in the Caribbean Basin
February 3 – March 7, 2025

Curated by Dr. Rojo Robles
Featuring films by Luis Arnías, Mariana Rondón, Juan Andrés Arango García, Nino Martínez Sosa, and Rosamary Berríos Hernández

 

Anna Ostoya: J M Z
September 13 – December 13, 2024

Co-curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and Alexandra Tell

 

 

 

Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi
March 22 – June 7, 2024

Co-curated by Alaina Claire Feldman (Director and Curator, Mishkin Gallery) and Mariam Shergelashvili (Exhibition Curator, State Silk Museum)

 

 

 

The Right to the City: Public Space on Film
January 29 – March 1, 2024

Curated by Alexandra Tell
Featuring films by Charlie Ahearn, Ayo Akingbade, Danielle Arbid, Dora Budor & Noah Barker, Tony Cokes, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Onyeka Igwe, Charles Lane, Morgan Quaintance, Claire Read & Nora DeLigter, Józef Robakowski, Margaret Rorison, WangShui, and John Wilson

 

 

We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…
August 31 – December 8, 2023

Curated by Manuela Paz and Christopher Rivera (Embajada)
Featuring Allora & Calzadilla, Lucas Blalock, Borden Capalino, Carolina Caycedo, Oswaldo Colón Ortiz, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Edmée Feyyo, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Jorge González Santos, Vanessa Hernández Gracia, Federico Herrero, Alana Iturralde, Jessica Kairé, Esther Kläs, Ajay Kurian, Ignacio González-Lang, José Lerma, Liliana Porter, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Christopher Rivera, Adriana Martínez Barón, Matilsha Marxuach, Lionel Maunz, Andy Meerow, Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, Damián Ortega, Ernesto Pujol, Dhara Rivera, Jorge Rivera, Joel “Yoyo” Rodriguez, Monica Rodriguez, Marxz Rosado, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Chaveli Sifre, Edra Soto, Andra Ursuța, and Alterazioni Video.

 

Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic
March 10 – June 9, 2023

Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman
Presented in collaboration with Pioneer Works

 

 

 

Carnival on Film: Procession as Politics
February 6 – 24, 2023

Featuring films by William Sabourin O’Reilly, Rhea Storr, and Marcel Camus, and Weissman speakers Professor Ted Henken, Professor Keisha Allan, and Professor Tshombe Miles
Presented in collaboration with Baruch Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA), Baruch Black and Latino Studies (BLS), and Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

 

 

Warhol, People and Things: 1972-2022
May 21, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Casa São Roque, Porto, Portugal

Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and Barbara Piwowarska
Featuring Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Pedro Magalhães, Sara Graça, Jeff Preiss, Anna Ostoya, John Miller, Augusto Alves da Silva, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tony Cokes, and Eileen Quinlan

 

 

Who Speaks for the Oceans?
September 1 – December 9, 2022

Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and David Gruber
Featuring Ant Farm, Ursula Biemann, Else Bostelmann, Myrlande Constant, Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, Pia Dehne, Miho Hatori, Marguerite Humeau, Will E. Jackson, Joan Jonas, Dominique Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Chris Marker and Mario Ruspoli, Josèfa Ntjam, and Roger Payne

 

Reframing America
Summer 2021, online

Curated by Jonathan Anderson, Bianca Bailey, Wendy Berot, Zhidan Dai, Marcello Di Russo, Elena Freije Urdaneta, Randall Houston, Shawn-Ta Jones, Joyce Laoagan, Zachary Longstreet, Christina Lynch, Jeff Park, Ali Rossi, Robin Schatell, Jialu Tang, and Weigine (Marisa) Wang

 

 

Critical Ecology on Film
April 8, 2021 – April 9, 2021

Featuring Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, Dominique Knowles, Lisa Rave and Erik Blinderman, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Weissman speakers include professors Rojo Robles Mejias, David Gruber, Alison Griffiths, and Alaina Claire Feldman

 

 

Lamin Fofana: BLUES
March 12, 2020; March 21, 2022 – May 6, 2022; and online

Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman
Featuring works by Nicolas Premier and Jim C. Nedd

 

 

Wish You Were Here
Summer 2020, online

Curated by Josey Bartlett, Jason Brown, Jess DeAngelis, Rachel Deen, Fay Duftler, Rob Maitner, Amanda McDowall, Sam Meyer, Pola Mora, Stephanie O’Brien, Kristy Pavlick, Madeline Pollis, Sara Ramsawak, Dasom Sohn, Patricia Stachowicz, Yesseña Whitfield, Tim Wroten, and Magda Zdunczyk

 

 

 

Looking To Hear
Summer 2020, online

Curated by Josey Bartlett, Jason Brown, Jess DeAngelis, Rachel Deen, Fay Duftler, Rob Maitner, Amanda McDowall, Sam Meyer, Pola Mora, Stephanie O’Brien, Kristy Pavlick, Madeline Pollis, Sara Ramsawak, Dasom Sohn, Patricia Stachowicz, Yesseña Whitfield, Tim Wroten, and Magda Zdunczyk

 

 

The Brotherhood of New Blockheads
November 14, 2019 – February 21, 2020

Curated by Peter Belyi with Lizaveta Matveeva

 

 

 

Disidencia: Minerva Cuevas
August 29 – November 1, 2019

Curated by Solange Farkas, Gabriel Bogossian, and Alaina Claire Feldman

 

 

 

The Work: Lise Soskolne
May 17 – July 11, 2019

Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman

 

 

 

Pedagogy of the Streets: Porto 1977
March 13 — May 9, 2019

Elvira Leite
Curated by Lúcia Almeida Matos and Susana Lourenço Marques

 

 

The Aesthetics of Learning
January 16— March 1, 2019

Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen, Juan Downey, Catherine Wagner
Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman

 

 

 

Mishkin Gallery Exhibition History

Learn more about the history of the Mishkin Gallery exhibitions from 1989 to 2019.

Past Events

Graphic Design Senior Capstone Exhibition
June 11, 2025
5-7 PM

Baruch Journalism Department Essay Contest Reading: My Superpower
May 29, 2025
11 AM

Medieval Media Studies: Dreams and the Digital Imaginary
A lecture by Dr. Alison Griffiths
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
6pm

Documentary Filmmaking and Black Spirituality in Puerto Rico
With filmmaker Rosamary Berríos Hernández, Dr. Margarita Rosa, and Dr. Rojo Robles
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
6pm
Co-presented with Baruch Black and Latino Studies Department

Encounters Magazine Mosaics Zine Launch
Thursday, February 27, 2025
12pm

Black Cinemas in the Caribbean Basin: Expanding the Black Gaze
With Dr. Elena Martinez and Dr. Rojo Robles
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
6pm

Filmmaker Luis Arnías in conversation with Dr. Rojo Robles
Thursday, February 6, 2025
6pm
Zoom

The Art of Fiction Podcasting
Thursday, November 14, 2024
10-12am
Featuring Sharon Mashihi, Jared Carter, and Dawnie Walton, and moderated by Gisele Regatão, Associate Professor of Journalism at Baruch College
Organized by Baruch College’s Fiction Podcasting Class and The Sidney Harman Writer-In-Residence Program

Mishkin Gallery After Hours + Curator Tour
Monday, November 4, 2024
6-8pm
Our doors stay open late and exhibition curators Alaina Claire Feldman and Alexandra Tell lead a tour of Anna Ostoya: J M Z.

Taxonomies of Power: A Conversation on the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi
With Olaf Nicolai, Nina Akhvlediani, Mariam Shergelashvili and Alaina Claire Feldman
Co-organized with Goethe Institut New York
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
10am EST
Watch on YouTube

Student Essay Contest Reading
Thursday, May 23, 2024
11am

Conversation with Curator Data Chigholashvili, presented with GAAN
Friday, May 17, 2024
6:30pm

“Representa tu Bandera” with Baruch’s Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:30-6:30

Open Sketch Session with Baruch Honors Program
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
1-2pm

Exhibition Opening | Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi
Thursday, March 21, 2024
6-8pm

Screening + Talk: Doin’ Time in Times Square (1992) with filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, artist Jane Dickson, and Professor Amy Herzog, Queens College/Graduate Center (CUNY)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
6 p.m.

Screening + Talk: Chase Manhattan (2021-2022) with filmmaker Noah Barker
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
6 p.m.

Screening + Talk: The Five Demands (2023) & Black/Latinx Student Club Fair
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
5 p.m.
Engleman Recital Hall
Part of Black History Month at Baruch College. Co-sponsored by the Black & Latinx Studies Department, the Baruch SEEK Program, The CUNY 1969 Project at the Baruch Center for Teaching & Learning, the Higher Education Studies Program at the Marxe School, the Office of Student Life, the Mishkin Gallery, the Office of Diversity, Compliance & Equity Initiatives, the Office of the President at Baruch.

Valentine’s Day Screening + Talk:  The Right to the City Program 3: Memory & Mythology, introduced by Pushti Vachhani, Mishkin Gallery Nagelberg Fellow
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
6 p.m.
Screening of Onyeka Igwe, The Miracle on George Green (2022), WangShui, From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances (2018), and Claire Read and Nora DeLigter, The Pedestrian (2018).  Co-sponsored by Baruch’s Graduate Arts Administration Network.

Screening + Talk: The Right to the City Program 2: Housing & Inequality, introduced by Professor Hilary Botein, Marxe School of International + Public Affairs, Baruch College
Thursday, February 8, 2024
6 p.m.
Screening of Charles Lane, Sidewalk Stories (1989) and Ayo Akingbade, Tower XYZ (2016).

Community Day
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
6 p.m.
Presented in collaboration with Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies (BLS) and CUNY’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO).

Book Launch + Reading: Crowded House by Safia Jama
Thursday, November 2
1 p.m.

Workshop: Artist Jorge González
Tuesday, October 31
12 p.m.

Framing Puerto Rico in the New Millennium
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
1 p.m.
Speakers: Dr. Rojo Robles and Dr. Viviana Rivera-Burgos
Moderated by Mishkin Gallery Director Alaina Claire Feldman
Presented in collaboration with Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies (BLS) and the Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA)

Collection Spotlight: Artist Talk with Juan Sánchez and Christopher Paz-Rivera
Thursday, July 20, 2023
12 p.m.
Online, Zoom
Watch on YouTube

Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic Book Presentation + Talk
Thursday, July 13, 2023
7 p.m.
Location: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
With Claire Koron Elat (writer, curator, and editor of 032c, Berlin), John Miller (artist, writer and curator, Berlin and New York), Aura Rosenberg (artist, Berlin and New York). Moderated by Alaina Claire Feldman.

Mishkin Gallery After Hours
Monday, May 8, 2023
6 p.m.

Walter Benjamin’s Berlin, featuring Aura Rosenberg, Kirsty Bell, and Laura Lopez Paniagua
Thursday, April 27, 2023
12 p.m.
Online, Zoom
Presented in collaboration with Baruch’s Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center
Watch on YouTube

Baruch College Campus Art Tour
Thursday, April 20, 2023
12 p.m.
Baruch College Vertical Campus
Organized by Dasom Sohn, Mishkin Gallery’s Nagelberg Graduate Fellow, and Carlos Nazario, Mishkin Gallery’s Curatorial and Collections Assistant

What Is Psychedelic Publication Launch and Celebration
Sunday, April 9, 2023
2 p.m.
Location: Pioneer Works

Screening + Talk: Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus, introduced by Professor Tshombe Miles
Thursday, February 23, 2023
6 p.m.
Presented in collaboration with Baruch ISLA and Baruch BLS

Screening + Talk: Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical with filmmaker Rhea Storr and Professor Keisha Allan
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
6 p.m.
Presented in collaboration with Baruch ISLA and Baruch BLS
Watch on YouTube

Screening + Talk: Lázaro and the Shark: Cuba Under the Surface with filmmaker William Sabourin O’Reilly, producer Antonia Zennaro and Professor Ted Henken
Tuesday, February 7. 2023
6 p.m.
Presented in collaboration with Baruch ISLA, Baruch BLS, and Centro Cubano Cultural de Nueva York

Alvin Lucier’s “Vespers”
Thursday, December 2, 2022
1 p.m.
In person at the Mishkin Gallery
Baruch Professor Ted Gordon (Music & Fine and Performing Arts) will discuss the origins of Lucier’s work from the late 1960s, and how Vespers was written as a prose score with uniquely evolving instructions. The public is then invited to perform Vespers. All supplies will be provided.

Artist Talk: Ant Farm’s Dolphin Embassy
Thursday, November 17, 2022
6 p.m.
Online, Zoom
Mishkin Gallery’s Alexandra Tell joins Ant Farm’s Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier for a conversation about Dolphin Embassy, the alluring and complex project which intended to establish democratic relations between cetaceans and humans.
Watch on YouTube

Donika Kelly, From The Renunciations: A Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 17, 2022
11 a.m.
Poet Donika Kelly reads from her newest work. Presented by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office and co-sponsored by the Department of Black and Latino Studies and Department of English.

Josèfa Ntjam, Holy Water, in Discussion with Mami Wata
Thursday, November 3, 2022
6:30 p.m.
Josèfa Ntjam debuted a newly commissioned multimedia performance based on mythologies of Mami Wata, speculative fiction, and epistemological categories of race, gender, and species. Video: Sean Hart. Costume: Lydia Rodrigues Collection, which includes pieces by Ligia Dias, Willie Norris Workshop, Camilla Carper and Kovin.
Watch on YouTube

Miho Hatori, Do Whales Dream of Electric Human?
Thursday, October 13, 2022
6:00 p.m.
Musician and artist Miho Hatori debuted a new sonic performance work commissioned for the exhibition Who Speaks for the Oceans?
Watch on YouTube

Panel: Warhol’s Spatial Practices, featuring John Miller, Anna Ostoya, and Christopher Schmidt
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
12 p.m.
Online, Zoom, organized by Alexandra Tell
Watch on YouTube

“What is Home?” Student Essay Contest Reading
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
12:30 p.m.
Hosted by Baruch Journalism Department and Harman Writer-in-Residence Program
Watch on YouTube

Mishkin Gallery After Hours
Monday, April 25, 2022
6 p.m.

Artist Talk: Mia Enell
Thursday, March 10, 2022
6:30 p.m.
In conversation with Mishkin Gallery’s Director and Curator, Alaina Claire Feldman to discuss the artist’s new publication, Mia Enell: Large Paintings (2022)
Watch on YouTube

Screening and Discussion of Quilombo (1984): Racial Capitalism, Radical Black Feminism, and Imagining the Archive
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
6 p.m.
Hosted by Baruch’s Black Life Futures, featuring Professors Tshombe Miles, Rojo Robles, and Erica Richardson
Watch on YouTube

Walking Tour: Public Art in Gramercy
Saturday, February 26, 2022
12 p.m.
Featuring the architecture of Charles B. Meyers and H.P. Camden (1939); “Brier Patch” by Hugh Hayden (2022); Kindred McLeary’s murals in the Madison Square Station Post Office (1939); and Martin Wong’s “Traffic Sign for the Hearing Impaired” (1991).

Collection Spotlight: Artist Talk with Ralph Gibson
Thursday, December 2, 2021
6 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with Baruch’s Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center

Conversation on Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, featuring Chloë Bass, Linda Earle and Jessica Lynne
Thursday, May 13, 2021
7 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with the Pulitzer Art Foundation and Baruch’s Black and Latinx Studies

In Sudden Darkness: Filmmaker Tayler Montague in conversation with Professor Bridgett M. Davis
Thursday, March 11, 2021
1 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with Baruch’s Harman Writer-In-Residence Program and Black and Latinx Studies

Ho Tzu Nyen and The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (cdosea.org)
Moderated by Professor Katherine Behar
Thursday, February 4, 2021
12 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with CUNY’s Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI)

Nicolás Guagnini and Jeff Preiss
Featuring the film Discharge (2005)
Thursday, Nov 19th, 2020
6 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with Baruch’s Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA)

History, Memory, Media
May Joseph and Nicolas Premier
Friday, October 30th, 2020
1 p.m.
Online, Zoom and in collaboration with Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies (BLS)

Curating, Institutions, and COVID
Josey Bartlett, Robert Maitner, Kristy Pavlick and Yesseña Whitfield, moderated by Visnja Begovic (Baruch MA Arts Administration candidates)
Friday, October 2, 2020
6 p.m.
Online, Zoom

BLUES Listening Session with Lamin Fofana and Serubiri Moses
Sunday, May 24, 2020
4 p.m.
Online and in collaboration with Goethe-Institut New York

BLUES Artist Tour with Lamin Fofana and Nicolas Premier
Friday, March 13, 2020
3 p.m.
Watch on YouTube

BLUES Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, March 12, 2020
6-8 p.m.

Student Showcase: Performative Responses to The Brotherhood of New Blockheads
Thursday, Feb 19, 2020
2:30-3:30 p.m.

Comradeship Reading Group hosted by Independent Curators International (ICI)
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020
6:30-8 p.m.

Drawing Sessions
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020
1-2 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Professor Susan Tenneriello on The Brotherhood of New Blockheads
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020
6-7 p.m.

Encouters Magazine Launch
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019
6-8 p.m.

Faculty Book Launch
Stephanie Insley Hershinow’s (assistant professor of English) Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel and Abby Anderton’s (assistant professor of music) Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019
1-2 p.m.

Marie Angeletti: Tour of the Baruch College Art Collection
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019
12:30-2:30 p.m.

Gisele Regato, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Cheseter B Zarnoch on Minerva Cuevas’s Disidencia
Part of Art Speaks Justice program at BPAC
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
5:30-6:30 p.m.

Drawing Session
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019
1:30-2:30 p.m.

David Gruber on Minerva Cuevas’s A Draught of Blue
Tuesday, Oct. 8th
6:30-7:30 p.m.

Clayton Press on Minerva Cuevas’s El pobre, el rico, y el mosquito
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019
6:30-7:30 p.m.

Walkthrough of Disidencia led by artist Minerva Cuevas
Friday, Aug. 30, 2019
11 a.m.

The Work Chapter 2 Exhibition Opening
June 24, 2019
6-8 p.m.
Performance by experimental harp player and composer Zeena Parkins

Drawing Session
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
1:30-2:30 p.m.

The Work Chapter 1 Exhibition Opening 
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6-8 p.m.

PEN World Voices Festival: Resonances
Thursday, May 9, 2019
6-7 p.m.
Readings by Niviaq Korneliussen, Bridgett M. Davis, Willivaldo Delgadillo, Gabrielle Bell, and Esther Allen

SAAL on Screen
Friday, May 3, 2019
6:30-8 p.m.
Casas para o povo (Houses for the people), 2010 by Catarina Alves Costa
Porto 1975, 2010 by Filipa César

An Afternoon Salon of Faculty Work and Research
Thursday, April 11, 2019
1-2:30 p.m.
Featuring presentations by Anika Sarin and Karen Shelby

Drawing Session
Thursday, April 4, 2019
1:30-2:30 p.m.

Pedagogy of the Streets Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
6-8 p.m.

Scottish Symphony Listening Session
Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen
Introduced by Professor Abby Anderton
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019
6:30-8 p.m.

Drawing Session
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
1:30-2:30 p.m.

The Aesthetics of Learning Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019
5-7 p.m.