Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery

paintings lining exhibition walls on opposite sides of the Sol Koffler Gallery

Graduate students value the opportunity to both exhibit their work and help program the gallery space with an ongoing series of well-conceived group and departmental exhibitions.

The learning experience afforded by preparing for and mounting exhibitions is especially important to furthering the professional practices of master’s degree candidates.

Current Exhibition

Graduate Glass Biennial
through Mar 9, 2025
Opening reception: Jan 23, 7–9 pm

rectangular block of glass with blue hue
see images of the current show

Upcoming exhibitions

Graduate Industrial Design Biennial
Mar 14–30, 2025
Opening reception: Mar 13, 7–9 pm

Graduate Graphic Design Biennial
April 4–13, 2025
Opening reception: Apr 3, 7–9 pm

Graduate Jewelry + Metalsmithing Biennial
April 18–27, 2025
Opening reception: Apr 17, 7–9 pm

Graduate Sculpture Biennial
May 2–11, 2025
Opening reception: May 1, 7–9 pm

Sustainability Design Lab Exhibition
May 24–Jun 4, 2025

download the schedule

Inside the gallery

Ever-changing exhibitions throughout the academic year are generally on view for two to three weeks and are organized by curators from Campus Exhibitions working in conjunction with representatives from the Student Gallery Board. While many shows are departmentally based, others are organized thematically or driven by questions and concerns of particular interest to students.

a mixed media sculpture at the center of a long gallery hall, surrounded by other artworks
several artworks mounted on the walls of a gallery room
two rows of scale architectural models propped against gallery walls, flanking a long table of several more models
a gallery foyer with a sign on the rear wall for an exhibition titled "Works Like"
a mannequin wears a colorful skirt and top combo in an art gallery, opposite a colorful hanging print

Location and contact

Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery 
169 Weybosset Street, 1st floor 
Providence, RI 
Gallery desk: 401 277-4809 
Email: exhibitions@risd.edu

Gallery hours

Daily, noon–5 pm

Past exhibitions

Graduate Painting Biennial
Nov 15–Dec 3, 2024

Graduate Printmaking Biennial
Oct 18–Nov 10, 2024   

Coalesce: Happenstance
Sep 13–Oct 13, 2024   

Sustainability Design Lab Exhibition
May 24–Jun 2, 2024

Graduate Illustration Biennial
Apr 26 – May 9, 2024

Graduate Photography Biennial
Apr 5 – 21, 2024

Graduate Interior Architecture Biennial
Mar 15 – 31, 2024

Graduate Digital + Media Biennial
Jan 9 – Feb 18, 2024

Graduate Textiles Biennial
Nov 10 – Dec 3, 2023

Furniture Design Graduate Biennial
Oct 20 – Nov 5, 2023

Interior Atlas: Ways of Research
Sep 7 – Oct 12, 2023

Graduate Selections
Jun 1 – 4, 2023

Graduate Painting Exhibition
May 5 – 17, 2023

Graphic Design Graduate Biennial
Apr 14 – 30, 2023

Industrial Design Graduate Biennial
Mar 17 – Apr 9, 2023

Graduate Jewelry + Metalsmithing Biennial
Feb 24 –  Mar 12, 2023

Graduate Printmaking Biennial
Jan 27 – Feb 19, 2023

Graduate Glass Biennial
Dec 2, 2022 – Jan 2, 2023

Graduate Sculpture Biennial
Nov 11 – 27, 2022

Landscape Architecture Graduate Biennial
Oct 7 – Nov 6, 2022

A Moment That Lasts Beyond Now
Sep 7 – Oct 2, 2022

Graduate Selections 2022
June 3 – 5, 2022

Furniture Design Graduate Biennial
Apr 8 – May 12, 2022

Graduate Textiles Biennial
Mar 4 – Apr 3, 2022

Graduate Ceramics Biennial
Nov 12 – Dec 5, 2021

Arrival: Work by Photography MFA students
Oct 8 – Nov 7, 2021

18 Perspectives on Voice
Sep 7 – Oct 3, 2021

Glass Graduate Biennial
April 17 – May 2, 2021

Sculpture Graduate Biennial
Mar 27 – April 11, 2021

Not My First Rodeo
Nov 21, 2020 – Feb 7

Scattered Points Across the Map: Graduate Biennial 2020
Oct 31 – Nov 15, 2020

Righteous Design
Oct 6 – 25, 2020

American Dreams
Feb 15 – Mar 12, 2020

Crossing Threads Grad Biennial
Jan 17 – Feb 4, 2020

Context
Nov 15 – Dec 4, 2019

Graduate Biennial
Oct 25 – Nov 10, 2019

Overview: objects are closer than they appear
Oct 4 – 20, 2019

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Sept 4 – 29, 2019

Coalesce: Happenstance