DPI 2025 BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception

2025 BFA Exhibition Poster

An exhibition featuring works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by graduating seniors from the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts

DPI is proud to present the 2025 DPI BFA Exhibition, curated by Kalia Brooks. This exhibition presents the work of the graduating Photography & Imaging class. It is installed in the Gulf + Western Gallery (1st floor rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). It will remain on view through May 17, 2025.

The 2025 DPI BFA Exhibition presents 42 artistic thesis projects, featuring everything from photographs, images, videos and books to sounds, installations, and interactive experiences. The artists in this year’s graduating class go above and beyond traditional notions of the photograph, blurring the lines between mediums, materials, and fields of knowledge, to redefine what it means to be a photographer, an artist, and a student in a constantly evolving world. Their work addresses contemporary themes of identity, the body, place, time, spirituality, technology, memory, and globalization and serves as their capstone project providing just a peek into what they’ve learned during their time at NYU, a school that fosters global perspectives and critical thinkers.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Kalia Brooks, PhD, is the Director of Programs and Exhibitions at NXTHVN. She is responsible for the design and delivery of curatorial exhibitions, public programs, artist projects, community engagement initiatives and the learning environment for the fellowship and apprenticeship programs.  Her academic research covers art from the nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on emergent technologies and African American, trans-Atlantic and diasporic cultures of the Americas. Brooks holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). She is co editor of Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK, 2019 and 2022). She has served as a consulting curator with the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs and was an ex-officio trustee on the Board of the Museum of the City of New York during the de Blasio administration.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE

Danny Arensberg, Shea Baasch, Ethan Thomas Barrett, Julie Benatar, Somalia Bryant, Ashley Cho, Alex Cohen, Grace Bader Conrad, Finn Crawford, Vince Criniti, Francesca DiMiceli, Ava Emmons, Jialing Gao, Yul Han, Seyeon Jeong, Arki Johnson, Jamie Kimura, Jenny Le, Patrick Gil Lespinasse, Jacob Levine, Phoenix-Li McHayle, Oba Oluwehinmi, Chloe Victoria Rodriguez, Jada Rodriguez, Ryan Rogers, Beyoncé Rose, Stevia Roxanne, Jadah Sanders, Luiz Simone, Grace Anthony Smidt, Caroline F. Solakian, Tamara Tsehai Tesfai, Ava Jade Thornton, Tommy Long Tran, Lily Meidi Updike, Chenlei Wang, Kaitlyn Wigmore, Jinkai Wu, Baiyi Wu, Cleo Yao, Nadine Zhan, and Jerry Zhao