Art and Design Gallery
The exhibition space showcases the work of students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists.
Exhibitions
Adapt/Evolve
Adapt/Evolve is a thought-provoking exhibition that examines adaptive and inclusive design across disciplines within FIT’s School of Art and Design, including Fashion Design, Accessories Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Jewelry Design, and Toy Design.
The exhibition will highlight how interdependence is central to how we live, interact, and create inclusive design. Adapt/Evolve reexamines the idea of autonomy and questions traditional divides between dependence and independence. Through multidisciplinary objects, the show also emphasizes how accessible and adaptive design has become a vehicle for breaking down barriers, allowing us to engage with one another more equally.
Adapt/Evolve will be accompanied by a symposium, which will be held October 16, 1 –6 pm. The symposium will feature panel discussions and presentations investigating adaptive design.
RSVP to attend the opening reception on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 5-7PM
BEING HYPER HUMAN
BEING HYPER HUMAN is a collaborative exhibition that brings together photography and video works by students, alumni, and faculty from Fashion Institute of Technology and Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bengaluru, India.
In more ways than one, our worlds are closer than ever. We encounter images of distant places directly in the palm of our hands. Our sense of time oscillates between lived experience and its representation on our screens. Increasingly, we seek the image of reality more than reality itself. Photography plays a pivotal role in this flattening of the world—where performing for the camera becomes as ordinary as observing through it. With the rise of digital and social media platforms, we often have to become images before we can connect with others. This exhibition reflects on what it means to inhabit this hyper-image world, presenting works that examine our deepening entanglement with images: What relationship do we have with images of ourselves? What meanings of the present are generated by looking at them? Why are we unsettled when reality doesn’t match its image? And, what becomes of our being if being human is increasingly tagged to an image?
Blank Canvas
Spring 2025 Fashion Design AAS Exhibit
The Spring 2025 Fashion Design AAS Exhibition, titled "Blank Canvas," empowers students to showcase their technical expertise and artistic vision. "Blank Canvas" illuminates the intersection of craftsmanship and creativity.
The "canvas" in the title references the white material which serves as the basis for each student's journey. This shared foundation presents endless possibilities for students to push the boundaries of innovation and design. Students are free to transform their white fabric in innumerable ways from dyeing and painting to beading and embroidery.
