Exhibitions

The Fashion Institute of Technology and The Museum at FIT proudly present the 2026 Photography and Related Media BFA junior exhibition: Room of Reflections. From staged narrative tableaus and intimate personal documentation to diverse conceptual explorations, this exhibition showcases still and moving images created by 51 students during the fall semester. This year‘s title references the passage of time, personal history, and shared experiences.

Room of Reflections is a student-led exhibition produced and created within the Photographic Concepts and Exhibition course. In addition to developing their own pieces throughout the semester, students worked collaboratively in committees to execute their collective vision for the final show.

Image: Isabel Marshall

Fashioning Desire: Willy Chavarria and Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is an exhibition exploring the work of designer Willy Chavarria and designer and artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in dialogue with one another. These two queer designers of Mexican heritage are reshaping global fashion through their innovative collections. Organized by MFIT's senior curator of education and public programs, Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, the exhibition celebrates how the designers' identities inform their creative vision. The works of Chavarría and Sánchez-Kane are imbued with desire—libidinal, sensual desire, but also a desire for belonging, for resistance, and for visibility. The exhibition will be organized thematically, bringing together works by both designers that reveal shared aesthetics and ideas. With fluid boundaries and bilingual texts, these sections will allude to the binational origins of the creators. 

Image: (L) Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Photographer: Dorian Ulises López Macías. @dorianuliseslopezmacias. (R) Willy Chavarria, Photographer: Diego Bendezu