Pratt’s 2025 Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions, on View in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Curated by Dejá Belardo, this two-part exhibition at Pratt Fine Arts’ new MFA facilities at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard features the work of graduating MFA artists across disciplines, including painting and drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and integrated practices. 

MFA Thesis Exhibition Part 1: Access Denied (March 31–April 11) 

Opening Monday, March 31, 6–8pm (EDT) 
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 12–6pm
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Exhibiting Artists: Yilin Chen, Yeonji Chung, kate evans, Eric Geithner, Eliza Gooding, Claire Heidinger, Jay, Yeon Jeong, William Kim, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu, Isabelle Friedrich McTwigan, Molly Miller, Alice Shi Minghui, Siha Park, K Rawald, Yedda Ye, Ayoung Yoo, and Wei Yuan

Access Denied explores the multiple dimensions of opacity and access — both physical and conceptual — as artists navigate the delicate balance between revelation and concealment. Within this selection, works become vessels of hidden meaning, coded language, and emotional depth, inviting the viewer to decipher, question, or accept what is withheld. 

What happens when knowledge is fragmented, when emotions are encrypted, or when entry is restricted? The artists in this exhibition remind us that meaning is not always given freely; sometimes, it must be sought, negotiated, or simply left in the realm of the unknown. 

– Dejá Belardo 

MFA Thesis Exhibition Part 2: Inside/Out (April 28–May 9) 

Opening Monday, April 28, 6–8pm (EDT)
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 12–6pm  
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Exhibiting Artists: Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, Dana-Marie Bullock, Monique Kevita Edwards, Danielle Gadus, Tony Griego, Herok, Rob Hill Art, HYUN, Ariadne Manuel, Shivani Mithbaokar, Yerang Moon, Mouet, Morgan Petitpas, Agnes Questionmark, Greta Schneider, Avery Schuster, and Leda Tsoutreli

Inside/Out brings together artists who challenge existing frameworks through acts of abstraction, material intervention, conceptual gestures, and formal subversion. Here, process is not merely a means to an end but a practice in itself — a critical tool for questioning, documenting, and reinterpreting the structures that shape our understanding of art and the world around us. 

Each artist navigates the tension between presence and absence, structure and instability, control and chance — ultimately revealing the unseen forces at play in both making and meaning. In Inside/Out, the works emerge as an active force of critique — reshaping, resisting, and reimagining the systems that they exist in. 

– Dejá Belardo 

Pratt Institute’s interdisciplinary MFA program in Fine Arts provides advanced education for artists supported by a distinguished faculty, exceptional facilities, and a supportive community of peers. Faculty and students build close relationships through structured studio visits, seminars, and informal conversations. The rigorous and flexible curriculum offers wide latitude for exploration while fostering critical perspectives and a deeper understanding of the histories, issues, cultural, and transdisciplinary contexts that inform art practices today. 

The exhibition is part of Pratt Shows 2025. Representing years of research, exploration, critical thinking, creative inquiry, problem-solving, growth, production, practice, and accomplishment, the shows celebrate student work leading up to Commencement. Pratt Shows also feature work in architecture, design, information, and liberal arts and sciences.

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