Senior Show & URECA Art Exhibition 2025

SENIOR SHOW | open April 24 - May 23

URECA ART EXHIBITION | open April 24 - May 8

SENIOR SHOW & URECA Art Exhibition 2025
Stony Brook University presents its annual exhibition of works by senior art majors and minors and digital art minors. The Senior Show includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, digital media, mixed-media installations and works on paper by this year's graduating class.

The URECA Art Exhibition celebrates outstanding artwork created by Stony Brook University undergraduate students, selected by Art Department studio art faculty. Sponsored by the   Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (URECA) and featured as a part of the Shirley Strum Kenny Student Arts Festival, this exhibition has juried awards and distinctions presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Gallery North. 

URECA Awards

URECA Prizes, awarded by Student Affairs

• First Place: Trinity Hausch, Analecta, 2024, Acrylic on canvas
• Second Place: Nethmi Withanage, Distorted Reflections: Beauty, Perception, and the Self, 2024, Ceramic
• Third Place: Prapti Patel, Whispers of Blue, 2024, Cyanotype on paper
• Honorable Mention: Katherine Keeble, Remember, 2024, Forged and welded metal
• Honorable Mention: Aiyi Liao, Galaxy I, 2024, Bronze
• Honorable Mention: Benson Ma, Dwagon Fwoot, 2025, Oil on canvas
• Honorable Mention: Taha Ahmad, A Bitter Largesse, 2024, Sculptural lithograph
• Honorable Mention: Janette Hassan, Freedom, 2024, Plexiglass intaglio on paper with ribbon
• Honorable Mention: Nicholas Miller, Veiled Ribbon-Wyrm, 2025, Oil on canvas
• Honorable Mention: Yan Lin, Confession (Love, 4/7), 2024, Oil on canvas

Virginia Fuller Prizes, awarded by Gallery North

• First Place: Aiyi Liao, Galaxy I, 2024, Bronze
• Second Place: Trinity Hausch, Analecta, 2024, Acrylic on canvas
• Third Place: Andrianna Gasparis, Λουλουδάτα (Flowery), 2024, Oil and fabric on canvas
• Honorable Mention: Prapti Patel, Whispers of Blue, 2024, Cyanotype on paper
• Honorable Mention: Liam Yehudai, 3D Moment Interface, 2025, Desktop Art
• Honorable Mention: Jess Struzinski, Deer of the Sea, 2024, Aquatint Print
• Honorable Mention: Benson Ma, Dwagon Fwoot, 2025, Oil on canvas

Provost’s URECA Awards

• Provost’s Purchase Award: Jess Struzinski, Deer of the Sea, 2024, Aquatint print
• Provost’s Honorable Distinction: Aiyi Liao, Galaxy I, 2024, Bronze
  
  
  
  

Senior Show Awards

• President’s Purchase Award: Kohei Kurihara, Studio Life, 2024, oil on canvas
• Provost’s Purchase Award: Jiexuan Li, Stable, 2024, wood and aluminum
• Provost’s Purchase Award: Rebekah Zhao, Papa eating with Mama, 2025, linocut print on colored paper
• Advancement Purchase Award: Yue Zhu, Cradle of Will, 2024, oil on wood
• Student Affairs Purchase Award: Jade Ignacio, Green Signal and Over Yonder, 2025, digital photograph
• Student Affairs Purchase Award: Sannah Mahboob, Sunset at Bay, 2024, oil on canvas
• Dean of Arts and Sciences Purchase Award: Kohei Kurihara, Staller Kites, 2024, oil on canvas

  Staller Center Awards for Excellence

• Alexandria Azar, Life and Death, 2024, bronze, wood, soil and live plants
• Nicholas G. Castellano, I don't remember, 202, stop-motion video loop
• Kohei Kurihara, Shinjuku Crossing, 2024, oil on canvas
• Nicholas Simms, The Taper's Section, 2024, ceramic and mixed media installation
• Nia Wallace, The Weight of Flying, 2024, acrylic on canvas
• Wenny Zheng, Night of Omens, 2024. lithography; mezzotint on stone

Presidential Student Art Award, awarded by the Office of the President (formerly Sunwood Award; artwork from URECA and Senior Show)

• • Brittney Felician, Untitled (Natural Disaster), 2025, Ceramic
  • Katherine Keeble, Remember, 2024, Forged and welded metal
  • Belinda Leung, Waterfall, 2025, Ink wash on Paper
  • Belinda Leung, Gray Colored World, 2024, Watercolor with Ink and Colored pencils
  • Benson Ma, Dwagon Fwoot, 2025, Oil on Canvas
  • Prapti Patel, Whispers of Blue, 2024, Cyanotype on paper
  • Linda Southard, The Raven, 2025, Bronze
  • Jade Ignacio, Green Signal, 2025, Digital photograph
  • Jade Ignacio, Over Yonder, 2025, Digital photograph
  • Kohei Kurihara, Shinjuku Crossing, 2024, Oil on canvas
  • Kohei Kurihara, Staller Steps, 2024, oil on canvas
  • Kaitlyn Lau, Bai Suzhen’s Drunken Night, 2024, Plaster and wood
  • Hayley Levine, Let The Dog Sleep, 2025, Oil on Canvas
  • Olivia Nissen, Ant Hill, 2024, Digital Inkjet Print
  • Prapti Patel, Grain and Gear, 2024, Wood and metal
  • Kerri Smith, Beauty Industry, 2025, Bronze, Wood, Barbed Wire, Copper.
  • Nia Wallace, The Weight of Flying, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas
  • Nethmi Withanage, Out of Place, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas
  • Rebekah Zhao, Luna & I, 2025 Etching and Aquatint in colors
  • Wenny Zheng, Night of Omens, 2024, Lithography; Mezzotint on Stone
    
    
    
    

 

EVENTS:
Reception for Senior Show and URECA Art Exhibition: Thursday, April 24, 4:30-6pm

Join us to celebrate Stony Brook University's talented undergraduate studio art students. Light refreshments will be served. Awards for URECA will be presented. Open to the public. 

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 12-4pm

Evening and weekend hours:

• Saturday, April 26, 6-8pm
• Sunday, April 27, 2-4pm
• Saturday, May 3, 7-8pm
• Sunday, May 4, 12-4pm

 

The 2024-25 Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery schedule is made possible by a generous grant from the Paul W. Zuccaire Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of Staller Center. URECA is presented by the Art Department and the Division of Student Affairs’ Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities and supported in part by Gallery North.

Art Department Website:  https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/art/