Art and Design Gallery
The exhibition space showcases the work of students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists.
Exhibitions
The Art and Design Gallery is open from 9 am until 5 pm, seven days per week. The gallery is located at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and West 27th Street.
Making Ground: Selected Works from the Class of 2026
This summer, the Art and Design Gallery presents Making Ground: Selected Works from the Class of 2026, a curated selection of highlights from the annual Graduating Student Exhibition (GSE) at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The exhibition brings together emerging artists and designers across a wide range of disciplines in the School of Art and Design. Selected following the conclusion of the GSE, the works on view reflect diverse practices spanning fine arts, illustration, photography, textiles, fashion, and design.
Making Ground speaks to a moment of active transition, where these artists are establishing their footing, claiming space, shaping direction, and constructing the foundations of their professional practices.
Graduating Student Exhibition 2026
School of Art and Design at FIT
This 2026 Graduating Student Exhibition presents the work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study from the School of Art and Design.
The work is the culmination of each student’s unique experience in FIT’s diverse, challenging, and demanding undergraduate art and design programs. Featuring juried, award-winning, and thesis projects, this presentation is the manifestation of several years of research, experimentation, critical thinking, and artistic proficiency.
Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance
Adorned Futures: Fabric, Form, and Indigenous Resistance brings together Ma’s House resident artists, Shinnecock Indian Nation artisans, and students and faculty from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) to explore contemporary art and design as expressions of cultural resilience, Indigenous futurism, and environmental storytelling. Rooted in the community-centered practices of Ma’s House, this exhibition features wearable art, beadwork, performance, sculpture, painting, photography, and video. Together, these works honor Indigenous knowledge systems and position creativity as an act of sovereignty, resistance, and intergenerational exchange.
Recently Past
<<Rewind Play> Fast Forward>>
Animation and Game Design at FIT and Beyond
January 17–February 15, 2026
Rewind, Play, Fast Forward celebrates animation and game design work by Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
students, faculty, and alumni of the School of Art and Design and School of Graduate
Studies.
The exhibition surveys works created in NYC and beyond, showing how storytelling appears in animation, where a storyline can take on a linear structure, and in game design, where players shape the story themselves. On display are a wide variety of game and animation art, concept and character designs, and games to play, along with a special guest exhibition of world-class work from Hornet, an NYC-based animation studio that produces all forms of commercial work, including stop-motion and computer-generated animation.
<<Rewind Play> Fast Forward>> is curated by Dan Shefelman, chair, Illustration and Interactive Media, and organized by the Department of Illustration and Interactive Media.
