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  • 50th Anniversary Opening Reception

    Everson Museum Auditorium 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

    Through a partnership with the iconic Everson Museum of Art, Light Work’s 50th Anniversary retrospective exhibition will be on view in two of the Museum’s main gallery spaces from January […]

    $20

  • Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Arko Datto’s epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world’s largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region […]

  • 2024 BFA Art Photography Annual Reception

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Light Work presents the 2024 BFA Art Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. The exhibition takes […]

  • Crystal Z Campbell: Artist Lecture

    Everson Museum Auditorium 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

    Light Work's Urban Video Project presents Makahiya, an exhibition projected on the facade of the Everson, featuring new work by multimedia artist Crystal Z Campbell. Makahiya, a Tagalog word that translates to […]

  • Sophia Chai: Character Space Reception and Artist Lecture

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Sophia Chai’s Character Space comprises photographs that are a return to her mother tongue, Korean. In these studio-made images she references these written characters and enacts three key ideas of […]

  • Embracing the Unpredictable: A Night of Events with Light Work

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Join us for a night of events on July 26th! From 5-7 PM, we will have opening receptions at Light Work (316 Waverly Avenue) for our Summer Exhibitions, According to the […]

  • 2024 Newhouse Photography Annual

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Light Work presents the 2024 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The exhibition is a collection of […]

    Free

  • Lines of Flight: Screening + Q&A with Miryam Charles and Joiri Minaya

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Join Light Work in Watson Theater (across from our galleries) on Thursday, March 20 for a screening and Q&A with filmmaker Miryam Charles and multimedia artist Joiri Minaya. Light refreshments […]

    Free

  • The Archive as Liberation Exhibition

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    May 12–August 29, 2025 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Reception: Friday, July 25th, 5-7pm The Archive as Liberation is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner (Light Work artist–in-residence, 2018, and Light Work exhibiting artist, 2021). Turner has […]

  • 2025 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    May 12–August 29, 2025 Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery Reception: Friday, July 25, 5-7pm With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2025 recipients are Sarah […]

  • Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice Opening Reception

    Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

    Sasha Phyars-Burgess’s photographic project Everything Nice traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic […]