The MFA thesis show is a culmination of the 3-year MFA program in the Department of Art. This “walkthrough critique” offers a conversation between a guest curator and graduate students at the exhibition, which is on display at the Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus.
Daisy Desrosiers is an interdisciplinary art historian and the current director and chief curator of Kenyon College’s Gund Gallery. She was previously the inaugural Director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art at the Colby Museum of Art at Colby College (Maine). Past exhibitions include Theaster Gates: The Black Image Corporation at Gropius Bau (Berlin, Germany), Sympathy For the Translator presented at the ICA (MECA) (Maine, USA) and No Justice Without Love, at the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC, USA) developed in dialogue with the Art for Justice community of artists and advocates. She was one of the co-curators of the First Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto Triennale titled GTA21 in 2021. Desrosiers was also part of the 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership cohort. Past fellowships include Nicholas Fox Weber curatorial fellow with the Glucksman Museum in Cork (Ireland) and a curatorial fellow at Brooklyn-based nonprot, Art in General. She contributed to the 2021 New Museum Triennial publication and As We Rise (Aperture, 2021). She sits on the Board of Directors at the Art Gallery of the University College Cork, (Cork, Ireland).
Sponsored by the Department of Art Graduate Studies Committee
