Student Gallery

Anjana Ranjan Artwork detail Details

Anjana Ranjan

Nationality: India
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

Sath

What happens when the face disappears, what remains? The form. The presence. The story. As a fashion photographer, I have witnessed how fashion elements are envisioned and crafted with intention, and precision. Yet, why does it rely so heavily on conformity of the body that carries it? This project challenges that imbalance and absence of identity and inviting the viewer to engage with texture and design. This project is a statement towards an industry that celebrates creation, yet often critiques the very bodies that bring those creations to life.

Sonal Randney FFAS photo by James Venable

Sonal Randney Artwork detail Details

Sonal Randney

Nationality: Sri Lanka
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion
BFA in Fashion Design

Photographed by Foundation Student James Venable.

Polina Ganz Artwork detail Details

Polina Ganz

Nationality: Russia
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Photography
BFA in Photography

A Dream That I Can Still Remember

A poetic reverie into a meticulously constructed world by Polina Ganz. The graduate story follows the idea that childhood represents our most androgynous state, a time before identity solidifies into fixed social categories. In childhood, dream logic prevails. Imagined worlds feel coherent, and reality remains fluid.

Approaching fashion as world-building and storytelling, this story becomes a fantastical escape, motivated by characters, dreams, and collective memories, echoing the poetic philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, for whom androgyny symbolizes unity and wholeness through the reconciliation of feminine and masculine within the dreaming psyche. Tim Walker said: “When you are a fashion photographer, nothing is real, so what you are trying to do is to make a real moment by installing genuineness into the artifice.” This story finds that genuineness in childhood, the most honest and vulnerable state of human life; a fragile, fleeting space we endlessly long to return to, where everything still feels possible.

The two chapters, set in Berlin, the place of origin, and Paris, where a sense of belonging was found, explore different psychological states of memory and imagination. The Berlin chapter reflects memory erosion through a stripped, fragmentary environment where details dissolve into atmosphere, while the Paris chapter presents an intimate yet unsettling, dreamlike room shaped by distorted perception, where childhood innocence merges with unease. Drawing on fairy tales read to one as a child, the book-like metal frame with falling pages becomes a symbol of a space of vague recollection, where images remain.

Jacob Karr Artwork detail Details

Jacob Karr

Nationality: United States
Graduating Class: 2026
Art & Technology, Interactive Media
MA/MFA Transdisciplinary New Media

Laura Albertini Artwork detail Details

Laura Albertini

Nationality: Italy
Graduating Class: 2026
Interior Design
MA in Interior Design

Sillage

Omar Juarez Artwork detail Details

Omar Juarez

Nationality: United States / Mexico
Graduating Class: 2026
Film & Video, Photography
MA/MFA Photography & Image-making

La Casita and 33 Hours

The project brings together La Casita and 33 Hours into a single narrative exploring memory, relationships, and personal identity. Through a multilayered installation composed of projections and photographs, the work weaves together the intimate dimension of family with an attempt to reconstruct fragmented and suppressed memories. On one side, it reflects the irreplaceable significance of familial bonds; on the other, it engages with a deeply personal investigation into a childhood trauma that has obscured part of the lived experience. Together, these two strands offer insight into the unstable and elusive nature of memory, emphasizing the fragility and ephemerality of the moments that shape our lives.

Lili Saori Artwork detail Details

Lili Saori

Nationality: France
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

The Jungian Mind

In this series, I explore the human psyche as it was defined by psychiatrist Carl Jung at the beginning of the 19th century, with an emphasis on the subconscious mind and its mechanisms.

Each portrait represents one of the four archetypes which are known to form the “Jungian map of the mind”: the Ego, Persona, Animus-Anima and Shadow. Personified through photographs, they become living figures in conversation with one another within one’s head.

Inspired by the methods of shadow work, this project highlights introspection as a path to uncover hidden desires and confront repressed aspects of oneself, including those deemed undesirable or evil. By cultivating self-awareness and freeing oneself of internal judgement, one can reduce the influence of unconscious patterns.

Ultimately, it’s about deconstructing, unveiling, discovering, peeling, digging, searching, understanding oneself…. It’s about the eternal quest for self-discovery, self-fulfillment and alignment. It’s about honesty.

Madison Halatsis Artwork detail Details

Madison Halatsis

Nationality: United States
Graduating Class: 2026
Interior Design
MA in Interior Design

Bièvre Pallette

Luise Leber Artwork detail Details

Luise Leber

Nationality: Germany
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

Ephemeral

Luise’s work is drawn to moments that feel in-between. Throughout her work, the body and clothing become quiet carriers of these states. Through organic elements and timeless styling, her images elevate the ordinary into something more intentional. A long-standing fascination with design, fashion and architecture shapes her way of seeing and composing. With a background in filmmaking, she approaches both photography and film with a strong sensitivity for cinematography. The result is a visual language that feels open, allowing space for projection rather than definition.

Sienna Grace Paquay Artwork detail Details

Sienna Grace Paquay

Nationality: Canada / Belgium
Graduating Class: 2026
Drawing & Painting
MA/MFA in Drawing

Sienna Grace explores meditation to translate states of consciousness into gestural marks while bridging drawing and performance within her practice. She cultivates a space of constant interpretation where layers react and dialogue with one another. Moving between intuition and control, her manipulation and iterations of forms evolve into a space of tension, constantly drawing back to her initial gestural marks.

Sofia Robledo Artwork detail Details

Sofia Robledo

Nationality: Spain
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

Inner Skin

Inner Skin explores the connection between architecture, fashion, and the body through surface as both structure and identity. Borrowed from architecture, “inner skin” refers to the elements that shape interior spaces from within, here extended to the body, where skin and clothing define presence.

Shot at the Hotel Puerta América, the work creates a dialogue between the model and her environment, where space influences posture and movement. At its core, the project reflects a personal connection to architecture, translating an inherited spatial awareness into a visual language where fashion mediates between interior and exterior, structure and intimacy.

Kari Paul Artwork detail Details

Kari Paul

Nationality: United States
Graduating Class: 2026
Art & Technology
MA/MFA Transdisciplinary New Media

Archival Quilt

Archival Quilt is a participatory textile installation that transforms Instagram users’ archived posts – images removed from public view but retained on corporate servers – into a collaborative quilt. Working with ten participants who shared full access to their Instagram archives, the work materializes hidden digital content as a physical heirloom, interrogating who owns the memories we create on social media and whether craft-based intervention can restore agency over platform-controlled archives.

Instagram’s “Archive” feature appropriates the language of institutional memory while offering none of its protections: posts are hidden rather than deleted, and preserved on corporate infrastructure with no guarantee of longevity or access. The word “archive” itself derives from the Greek arkhe – meaning government – underscoring how archives have historically been institutional, not personal. Archival Quilt explores the liminal space Instagram’s feature creates: the images we deem too personal, too ordinary, or too revealing for public presentation, yet significant enough to keep. In France, where the work was made, quilts are called ‘patchworks, a term borrowed from English that emphasizes their assembled, fragmented nature, mirroring how digital identities and collective databases are constructed from disparate data pieces into an emergent whole that differs from its constituent parts.

The border is stitched with machine-embroidered metadata rendered in diamond patterns, weaving together technical data – file sizes, timestamps, location data – and what the artist has termed “emotional metadata”: the affective narratives attached to digital ephemera that escape platform capture. The quilt is intentionally left unfinished in gallery installation, its loose threads representing the ongoing nature of a living archive, open to future participants and perpetually expanding. You can contribute your own images by scanning the accompanying QR code or visiting data-dump.com.

Ultimately, the work does not claim to be a scalable solution to the preservation crisis, but an artistic provocation: what changes when our digital memories become tangible; when Instagram archives become collective heirlooms?

Andrea Freydig Artwork detail Details

Andrea Freydig

Nationality: Mexico
Graduating Class: 2024
Fashion, Photography, Sustainability
BFA in Fashion Design

Freydig Avila

My collection is called Freydig Avila, my two last names in honor of my parents who have always inspired me and whom I aspire to be like. My collection is all about protection of the individual from danger. Either in the streets or at home. A shield to protect us as much as we protect our phones, houses or cars. To feel empowered and capable of anything to come for any gender.

I have done this with:

Inspiration from nature, since it already has all the answers. Studying how animals and plants protect themselves from predators with thorns, camouflage or changing sizes.
Transformability where my garments can transform from a loose jacket into a mini cropped one, from a long dress to a mini dress or from pants to shorts.
Many pockets also have hidden pockets to secure all your belongings as well as mini ones to palace an air tag or GPS tracker for your friends and family to know where you are if you wish to.
The lining inside some of the garments have illustrations of self defense.
Odd and tricky closures so your clothes cannot be torn easily.
Motorcycle clothes that are made to protect the rider.
Spy gadgets

Madison Harris Artwork detail Details

Madison Harris

Nationality: United States
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

As You Are

As You Are is a documentary-style photographic series centered on young women who use fashion as a means of resisting conformity. The work reflects a generation defined by courage and pride, individuals who assert their presence unapologetically. As You Are is a time capsule, preserving the strength of individuality.

Vivian Galvan Artwork detail Details

Vivian Galvan

Nationality: Mexico
Graduating Class: 2025
Art & Technology, Communication Design, Print & Publication
BFA in Communication Design

Shape Syntax

Zoe Yalden Artwork detail Details

Zoe Yalden

Nationality: Canada
Graduating Class: 2024
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

Kamila Soja Artwork detail Details

Kamila Soja

Nationality: Poland
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

Unresolved Identity

Living in various countries, her work demonstrates a sensitivity to changing environments and perspectives. Exploring different styles of photography to reveal their beauty and impermanence. Whether working with people or elements of nature, she strives to create images that seem both immediate and fleeting, with perception remains open to interpretation. Working primarily with studio lighting and digital photography, focusing on composition to precisely shape images while leaving room for the unpredictable. This balance allows her work to focus on tension, presence, and absence, and shaping visual language.

Soroshi Michelle Artwork detail Details

Soroshi Michelle

Nationality: India
Graduating Class: 2025
Sculpture
MA/MFA in Drawing

Soroshi Michelle’s artistic journey is one of continuous evolution, shaped by personal experiences, cultural transitions, and a deepening connection to nature and the feminine spirit. Her background in architecture provided a foundation of technical drawings, which initially defined her work. After having spent a decade living in the Middle East, Soroshi found herself increasingly drawn to expressing the contrasts between structured environments and the organic, forms of nature in its unrestrained qualities. Independence and growth cycles are explored visually as forms of resistance to societal expectations and cultural traditions.

Recently, her work has centered on the connection between women and its representations. Drawing inspiration from branches, leaves, Soroshi explores raw feminine energy and themes of resilience and growth. Her integration of organic materials like wire—used to represent thorns—adds a tactile quality to her work, wire meshes in conversations with drawing demonstrate an unacceptable face of adversity.

A variety of media are used: wire, thread, and ink in Soroshi’s work. It reflects a process of rebirth and continual discovery. Adapting to her surroundings, she draws from her environment to explore the boundless potential of the feminine spirit. Her practice celebrates continuous growth, honoring the natural cycles of renewal and transformation that defines the human experience.

Emma Brigl Artwork detail Details

Emma Brigl

Nationality: Italy
Graduating Class: 2026
Communication Design, Print & Publication
BFA in Communication Design

Bonnie

Ericka Lima Artwork detail Details

Ericka Lima

Nationality: Philippines
Graduating Class: 2024
Interior Design
MA in Interior Design

Tóna Fritsdóttir Artwork detail Details

Tóna Fritsdóttir

Nationality: Denmark / Faroe Islands
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

LIVANDI STEINAR (LIVING STONES)

Sometimes, home is tangible, a place you can return to. Other times, it’s abstract, something you can’t quite see or fully understand. It’s the quiet longing to belong somewhere, to feel seen.

There are moments when you question why this feeling even matters, but it just does. It lingers, unresolved, pulling you toward something just out of reach.

In my work, I draw on the folklore of Huldufólk to explore this idea. It is deeply rooted in the culture | grew up in, yet it is slowly fading, like many fragile traditions. Through this, I want to bring it back to life, not as something fixed or fully understood, but as a feeling, a presence. Something you search for, even when you don’t know what you’re looking for.

Renata Viniegra Artwork detail Details

Renata Viniegra

Nationality: Mexico
Graduating Class: 2027
Drawing & Painting
Foundation Year of the BFA Degree

Caitlin O'Leary FFAS photo by James Venable

Caitlin O'Leary Artwork detail Details

Caitlin O'Leary

Nationality: South Africa
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion
BFA in Fashion Design

Photographed by Foundation Student James Venable.

Tiffani Thompson Artwork detail Details

Tiffani Thompson

Nationality: United States / Canada
Graduating Class: 2025
Photography
MA/MFA Photography & Image-making

Archival Growing Pains

Approximately 50 1/2 x 66 1/2 inches, cyanotype on fabric, embroidery, 2024-2025.

Focusing on how to give care to both the self and the familial, as it relates to individual and intergenerational trauma through an art object that can hold the space for this care, as well as an item that can be used for comfort.

Caroline Averill Artwork detail Details

Caroline Averill

Nationality: United States
Graduating Class: 2025
Drawing & Painting
MA/MFA in Drawing

Caroline Averill’s work explores the presence of health inequities worldwide. Using soft pastel on canvas, Caroline’s blurred compositions transform the color stories found in database photographs that capture the stark realities of unequal access to medical care.

The blurred nature of her work acts as a technique to soften the impact of this reality. By obscuring the details, Caroline removes the viewer from any immediate reaction to these inequities, only to invite them back into the piece where they must engage with the deeper truths that emerge.

Caroline’s interest in health inequities stems from her previous education in medicine and her belief that art can provoke critical conversations that challenge the systems we take for granted. Her use of pastel, a medium typically associated with softness, contrasts with the often uncomfortable nature of the subject matter. It is through this contrast that she aims to shed light on medical disparities across the world.

Prateek Jain Artwork detail Details

Prateek Jain

Nationality: India
Graduating Class: 2026
Fashion, Film & Video, Photography
MA in Fashion, Film & Photography

L'Instant Figé

L’Instant Figé explores staged portraiture through the visual language of painting.

Drawing from classical masters such as Caravaggio and Vermeer, the work constructs images where lighting, and posing replace narrative. Each subject is carefully directed yet allowed space for improvisation, creating a tension between control and presence.

The stillness in the work is psychological, holding moments of suspended thought. The project explores reality into controlled, deliberate images that blur the boundary between portraiture, performance, documentary, reality, and painterly construction.

Bonobithi Biswas Artwork detail Details

Bonobithi Biswas

Nationality: India
Graduating Class: 2025
Art & Technology, Film & Video, Interactive Media, Sculpture
MA/MFA in Transdisciplinary New Media

Rivers Have Flowed Where They Buried Us

Combining virtual reality, creative writing, photography and performance, this immersive installation embodies a “lost” space from the psychogeographical exploration of the India-Bangladesh conflicted border historic landscape, its impact on transgenerational memory and trauma. It offers a multisensory experience of my personal and transgenerational experience with multiple migrations, border conflict and being “the other” in a space. The protagonist of this speculative universe, a boatwoman, acts as my avatar; you are guided by her/my voice. The aesthetic of this world combines greyscale with the colour purple, achieving a diffused dream-like effect, with layers of aquarelle textures and echoes, and surreal elements such as a hand-painted sky and cultural relics in the river sediment.
In the VR film, the viewer/participant embody a character in a boat cruising down a fictitious river. The riverine landscape is a reference to the over fifty transboundary rivers shared between the two countries, a metaphor for the fluidity of culture, history and migrant movements across this forced artificial colonial border. This was the path of migration my family took during the India-Pakistan wars.

The installation space is engulfed in a giant fishing net at the centre of which is placed a boat that the viewer/participant steps into to wear the headset and experience the VR film. The net carries various “relics” of this imagined universe, symbolising what has been dredged from the bottom of this flowing river of memories. This is combined with purple light and an ambient soundscape to further create an immersive atmosphere. As a performative aspect, I am physically in the space dressed as the boatwoman protagonist figure to welcome and introduce the viewer/participant to this fictionalised universe. The boatwoman is a symbol of Durga, the drowned goddess of strength, another co-cultural metaphor, a representation of the silenced female figure reclaiming space and power.

Monika Dicheva Artwork detail Details

Monika Dicheva

Nationality: Spain
Graduating Class: 2026
Interior Design
MA in Interior Design