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.
Soil to Surface
Soil to Surface highlights the creations of small-scale women farmers, women’s cooperatives, and internationally recognized designers from Türkiye, alongside the work of School of Art and Design students, faculty, and alumni at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Proposing an alternative framework where farmers, craftspeople, and designers operate on equal ground, the exhibition sees the FIT community actively reimagining these materials for contemporary design through technical experimentation and innovative thinking.
Agricultural waste and local textile materials are repositioned in a contemporary context, allowing multiple narratives to emerge across time and geographies, while creating new paths for creative businesses to be local, sustainable, and value-driven.
PICTURING COLOR: Artists Reveal the Spectrum
PICTURING COLOR: Artists Reveal the Spectrum, which follows PICTURING LIGHT (2024) and PICTURING SPACE (2019), is an exploration of the many manifestations of color. Color speaks to us on an emotional level—it hits us before we even know what we are looking at. The human eye experiences color in varying ways; it can spark physical and emotional responses, stimulating brain activity and altering our mood, while the meaning of color changes from one cultural context to another. PICTURING COLOR brings together the work of fine artists, photographers, graphic designers, and textile designers who respond to color in diverse ways. The specific focus of the show is on work that makes color its primary subject, not just the means to reveal other content. Some of the projects in this exhibition create environmental color experiences by layering transparent colors and by taking advantage of natural light in the Pomerantz lobby.
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.
