Graduate Student Work
![A person sits in Lela Pierce's installation, looking up at the video projection](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/lela1.jpg?itok=phVH9Rkh)
![Installation view of Prerna's sculptures and mixed media works in the Nash Gallery](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/prerna1.jpg?itok=qrJYHkOj)
![A potato sits in a pile of wood shavings appearing enormous inside a miniature bedroom complete with small electric candles on the floor and a grandfather clock against the wall.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/04-nerburn-nik.jpg?itok=lRTXz5jA)
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Nik Nerburn, The Way We Grow Them Here, 2022, Digital photograph, 10 x 13 in.
![Photograph of a male body laying naked face down in the grass of a lush, agricultural landscape. A dog lays on its belly next to the right side of the figure.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/hayden-teachout-mfa-press-150dpi.jpg?itok=74N8eDoP)
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Hayden Teachout, Untitled, 2021, Archival InkJet print, 5 x 7 in.
![Kuab Maiv Yaj, Koua Mai Yang, Day 78](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/day_78_nov12_02yang_koua_0.jpg?itok=2VTVPC8f)
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Kuab Maiv Yaj, Koua Mai Yang, 2020 Cohort - "Hnav Hmoob, Day 78, November 12, 2018"
![Hillary Price, Solar Catacomb, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/price_solarcatacomb_2014_1.jpg?itok=6wW5rbzD)
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Hillary Price, Solar Catacomb, 2014
![Light brown ceramic sculpture on the gallery floor, by Cody Hilleboe MFA 2022](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/cody1.jpg?itok=6FqouPxK)
![Painting of two superimposed faces showing the eyes and nose bridge.](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/maiuri-julia-mfa-press_0.jpg?itok=F_nPIJAf)
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Julia Maiuri, Eye Contact, 2021, Oil and wax on canvas, 8 x 10 in.
![Hillary Price, Graupel Champaign, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/price_graupel_champaign_2014.jpg?itok=0my6sb7W)
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Hillary Price, Graupel Champaign, 2014
![Dillon Rapp, Disbelief, 2015](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rapp_disbelief_2015.jpg?itok=HABa029r)
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Dillon Rapp, Disbelief, 2015
![Dillon Rapp, Tryptic, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rapp_tryptic_2015.jpg?itok=dwpf7M4I)
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Dillon Rapp, Tryptic, 2014
![Kuab Maiv Yaj, Koua Mai Yang, Day 54](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/day-54_oct19_yang_koua.jpg?itok=1P9EY4RA)
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Kuab Maiv Yaj, Koua Mai Yang, 2020 Cohort - "Hnav Hmoob, Day 54, October 19, 2018"
![Dillon Rapp, Suddenness in Nothingness, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rapp_suddennessinnothingness_2014.jpg?itok=t3-dfmM9)
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Dillon Rapp, Suddenness in Nothingness, 2014
![Infrastructural moorings fix globalization in place](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/cargill_hq_2-small.jpg?itok=BKoOA5y4)
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Nicholas Bauch, 2021 Cohort - "Infrastructural moorings fix globalization in place" (2018)
![Elongated workbench of the world's most aggressive disruptors](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/hidden_building-small.jpg?itok=OCdsbM2v)
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Nicholas Bauch, 2021 Cohort - "Elongated workbench of the world's most aggressive disruptors" (2018)
![Minnesota-Mojave I](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/pipe_on_ground-small.jpg?itok=eiDoKIQP)
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Nicholas Bauch, 2021 Cohort - "Minnesota-Mojave I" (2018)
![Minnesota-Mojave II](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/zzyzx_mn_sky_3-small_0.jpg?itok=FBFLwvJK)
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Nicholas Bauch, 2021 Cohort - "Minnesota-Mojave II" (2018)
![Anna Orbovich - 2019 Cohort](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/orbovich_grad_page-small_0.jpg?itok=I3z6PsTC)
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Anna Orbovich - 2019 Cohort
![Erika Terwilliger - 2020 Cohort](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/_sam3242_0.jpg?itok=jw_N4Wrc)
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Erika Terwilliger - 2020 Cohort
![Emily Swanberg - Manual Sample Spread](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/1_swanberg_manual-sample-spread-small.jpg?itok=JxWwLjIQ)
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Emily Swanberg - 2019 Cohort - "EAS.493" (2017) - manual, sample spread
![Emily Swanberg, Scotland Install](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/2_swanberg_scotland-install-small_0.jpg?itok=G42quMnc)
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Emily Swanberg - 2019 Cohort - "Wall (Dundee) and Broch Bricks" (2018) -
sawdust studs, concrete, hand-carved lumber
sawdust studs, concrete, hand-carved lumber
![Emily Swanberg - Sand Sawhorse](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/3_swanberg_cast-silica-sand-small.jpg?itok=Vy9NqN2G)
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Emily Swanberg - 2019 Cohort - "Sand Sawhorse" (2018) - cast silica sand, sandblasted sawhorse brackets
![Emily Swanberg - Structurally Fragile](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/4_swanberg_cast-iron-small.jpg?itok=ATz8YS3N)
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Emily Swanberg - 2019 Cohort - "Structurally Fragile" (2018) - cast iron strut
![Roger Ourthiague - 2020 Cohort](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rogero_smalljpg_0.jpg?itok=ukCqJN5Z)
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Roger Ourthiague - 2020 Cohort
![Rini Yun Keagy - Azimuth](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/rini_keagy_-_azimuth_0.jpg?itok=YJ9AWIB-)
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Rini Yun Keagy - 2021 Cohort - "Azimuth"
![Rini Yun Kigi - El Cenote](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/keagy_elcenote-small_0.jpg?itok=ZQGADXHm)
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Rini Yun Kigi - 2021 Cohort - "El Cenote" - work in progress
![Rini Yun Keagy - One Removed](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/keagy_oneremoved-small.jpg?itok=Dvvv6imD)
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Rini Yun Keagy - 2021 Cohort - "One Removed" - still image from audio/video/performance performed at Walker Art Center
![Brittany Kieler, Good Dog, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/kieler_gooddog_2014.jpg?itok=6aYGCy_-)
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Brittany Kieler, Good Dog, 2014
![Brittany Kieler, Voorhees, 2015](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/kieler_voorhees_2015_meet_1.jpg?itok=sfmaeiYZ)
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Brittany Kieler, Voorhees, 2015
![Brittany Kieler, Index, 2015](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/kieler_index_2015.jpg?itok=ziTbv1ug)
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Brittany Kieler, Index, 2015
![Rebecca Limerick, Doomsurfing, 2012](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/limerick_doomsurfing_2012.jpg?itok=z7S4EC6O)
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Rebecca Limerick, Doomsurfing, 2012
![Limerick](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/limerick_howtotranscend_2015.jpg?itok=97a3B2sB)
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Rebecca Limerick, How to Transcend, 2015
![Rebecca Limerick, Meet Piphyllis Brissleback, 2014](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/limerick_meetpiphyllisbrissleback_2014.jpg?itok=-Aeno-59)
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Rebecca Limerick, Meet Piphyllis Brissleback, 2014
![Jasmine Peck, Memory Vessels, 2013](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/peck_memory_vessels_2013.jpg?itok=hK_71aUP)
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Jasmine Peck, Memory Vessels, 2013
![Jasmine Peck, Self Portrait on Half Sphere, 2013](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/peck_self_portrait_on_half_sphere_2013meet_1.jpg?itok=J7OeIKvx)
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mine Peck, Self Portrait on Half Sphere, 2013
![Jasmine Peck, Lynchian Box, 2013](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/feature_slider_image_style/public/unsorted/images/peck_lynchian_box_2013.jpg?itok=oChAyqt8)
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Jasmine Peck, Lynchian Box, 2013
A selection of works created by MFA candidates. All third-year graduate cohorts have the opportunity to mount their thesis show in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, a 5,000 square foot professional exhibition space inside the Regis Center for Art.
View the 2023 & 2024 Thesis Exhibitions Catalogue online.