Cornell M.F.A. ’26 Group Show: I Happen to be Rock
May 8th, 2026 - May 31st, 2026
Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, writing, and expanded material practices, the exhibition gathers seven artists whose work insists on persistence, relation, transformation, and becoming. The title suggests both contingency and endurance; something accidental and elemental, arrived at and borne through. It evokes a condition of having taken form under pressure, of becoming matter, presence, witness.
Cornell M.F.A. ’26 Artist Presentations
May 4th, 2026
Milstein Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Graduating students in the M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts program will each present ten-minute lectures about their thesis work and art practice to the community. There will be seven presentations in total from the following students (all M.F.A. ’26): Marissa Cote, Carla Rangel García, Michael Morgan, Onome Olotu, Faye Pamintuan, Sandy Wang, and Sheila Novak.
Long Island Trash Review
April 14th, 2026
Read a review of Michael Morgan’s MFA thesis exhibition, Long Island Trash, written by Melissa Moon for the Cornell Daily Sun.
Long Island Trash
April 13th, 2026 - April 17th, 2026
Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Long Island Trash is Michael Morgan’s M.F.A. thesis exhibition, presenting a body of oil paintings developed during his final year at Cornell. The work moves between cartoon realism and more rendered figuration, using theatrical backdrops, vibrant color, and close attention to detail to explore vulnerability, consumerism, decay, and queer intimacy. As framed in a Cornell Daily Sun review, the exhibition is marked by “radical authenticity,” especially in its commitment to body diversity, emotional honesty, and lived experience.