Join the 2026 Ohio State Master of Fine Arts cohort for a special Gallery Walk-Through with visiting curator Sso-Rha Kang of The Carnegie!
Spend the afternoon in conversation as Kang tours the exhibition—Waiting for the Light to Change—offering insight into the work on view and sharing perspectives from her curatorial practice. This is an opportunity to hear directly from a leading museum curator while engaging with the 2026 MFA cohort and their installations in the gallery.
Saturday, March 7, 1–3pm
Urban Arts Space
Refreshments provided.
About the Curator
Sso-Rha Kang is an educator and curator based in Cincinnati, OH. She is currently the Curator of The Carnegie (Covington, KY). From 2021–2023 she served as the Director of Galleries and Outreach at Northern Kentucky University where she curated exhibitions, performances, and organized events with an emphasis on cross disciplinary collaboration. Her research interests delve into areas of institutional critique, blankness, and aesthetic experience. She has taught from 2017-2023 at institutions such as, The University of Cincinnati, The Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University. Additionally, she has curated exhibitions for The Weston (Cincinnati, OH), The Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), with an upcoming exhibition at The Blaffer (Houston, TX). She was one of two Consulting Curators for the state of Ohio in the exhibition New Worlds: Women to Watch (2024) for the National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington, DC). She was the recent curator in residence of KADIST’s Double Take program working on the traveling exhibition Portals, Pathways, and Space Between Us (2025).
About the Exhibition
Waiting for the Light to Change features the work of nine MFA graduate students whose art bravely responds to today’s cultural contexts. The 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition for the Department of Art at The Ohio State University invites the public to encounter the richness of our interdisciplinary MFA program in Studio Art. Through coursework in the Department of Art and across other academic departments and centers, mentorship through independent study with art faculty, as well as a graduate students’ thesis committee, each MFA candidate pursues a unique and rigorous art practice for three years.
Visiting Urban Arts Space
50 W. Town St., Ste. 130
Columbus, OH 43215
Located in the historic Lazarus Building in downtown Columbus.
Hours
Tuesday–Saturday | 11 a.m.–6 p.m., with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday.
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