Exhibitions

Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2026

April 23 - April 30, 2026

Gallery Event

Closing Reception | Thursday, April 30, 2026, 4:30 - 6 p.m.

Curated by Professor Thomas Ruggio & Professor Jeffrey Price

Location | Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, JoAnn Mazzella Murphy '98H Arts Center, Iona University

The Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery presents a special Spring exhibition celebrating the work of our budding student artists. From April 23 - April 30, 2026, the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery will be blooming with the very best drawings, paintings, and sculptures from Iona University. This exhibition is curated by Professor Thomas Ruggio and Professor Jeffrey Price. Join us for a closing reception with the  student artists on April 30 from 4:30 - 6 p.m.

The exhibition program presented in the Br. Kenneth Chapman Gallery, as well as performances and other cultural arts events, are made possible with generous support from the Iona University Council on the Arts.

Past Exhibitions

• Unbroken Gesture: Light, Lineage, and Living Tradition | works by Alina Wilczynski
• Looking in, Looking Out | works by Kelsey Gilmore 
• dependent / variable | works by Joseph Branciforte
• A Retrospective of Four Decades of Work | works by Dr. Jerome Levkov: Scientist and Artist
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2025 | Curated by Professor Thomas Ruggio & Professor Jeffrey Price
• RADICAL ACTION: Tracing Dorothy Day | Kristi Pfister
• The North Star | works by Diego Garcia
• The Women Dandies of The DRC: Dressing Dapper As Gendered Resistance In Central Africa | Photographs by Junior D. Kannah
• Love Your Mother | Jennie Thwing
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2024
• Carthage | Paintings by Fedele Spadafora
• The Gratitude Project: Paintings and Poetry by the US Poets Laureate
• Time is a River | Curated by Cara Lynch
• A Gift Of Light | Works by Br. Kenneth Chapman
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2023
• Saving Beauty: The Contemporary Icons of Threatened And Endangered Species of Angela Manno by Angela Manno
• My Own Rose-Tinted 3D Glasses by Werner Sun
• Dublin Bay by Liam Hourican
• FORMATION: Images of the Body by Tobi Kahn
• Personae by Carlos David
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2022
• The Weight of Optimism: Works by Heather Layton
• Considering the Goddess: A Survey of Sculptural Works by John Cino
• Cesare Dandini’s Holy Family with the Infant St. John: A Rediscovered Florentine Baroque Masterpiece
• A Hidden Wholeness: The Zen Photography of Thomas Merton*
• Art as a Spiritual Practice
• A Woman's Work..., Curated by Beth Giacummo
• Struggle - An Exhibit of Our Times, The Lincoln Park Conservancy, Inc.
• Female Gender Identity and Equality by the New York Society of Women Artists
• Unapologetically Me by Alvin Clayton
• Women in the Abstract: A Solo Exhibition by Award-Winning Artist, Steve Lyons
• Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
• Plastic Paradise by Elena Kalman
• Female Gender Identity and Equality By New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA)
• The Visual Arts Student Exhibition, curated by The Visual Arts Faculty
• SHE Voices: Expressions of Femininity, featuring Esther Kong Lo, Gloria Crouch-Nixon and Judith Weber.
• Influenced by Matisse: New Works by Alvin Clayton
• Shifting Focus: Hidden in Plain Sight, Curated by Rick Palladino
• More Fun Than Fun, featuring Andrea Beizer, Alysa Bennett, Ruby Silvious, Carol Taylor-Kearney, Peter Treiber, and Ruth Wolf