Expiration Date exhibition at RISD

Published December 2, 2025
Contributed by Deborah Khodanovich


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Every three years, each department at RISD gets to curate and design a triennial exhibition. For the 2024 Graphic Design Triennial, our small team had just three weeks to do just that with work submitted by over 100 students.

Expiration Date explores graphic design's ephemerality by showing the relationship between designed objects in their originally made contexts, and the work being stripped and placed into an art gallery setting. While reproduction and redistribution is what distinguishes graphic design from other art forms, what was always ephemeral to deterioration is now subject to obsoletion of digital infrastructure and limitations of technological compatibility.

Curation and exhibition design: Deborah Khodanovich (lead), Annabel Gillespie, Barbara Cutlak Soares, Chanya Vitayakul, Manna Patiparnprechavut
Identity design: Andrea Mato (lead), Hyelim Lee, Jeanie Yu, Jolin Chen, Seungeun Jeong, Siyuan Wang, So Jung Yoon
Web design: Avrie Allen (lead), Ashley Lee, Minah Kim, Xiyue Zou
Promotional team: Ammi Kira, Minah Kim, Nadine Hanah Macapagal, Rafael Mediodia, Roye Zhan




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Source: dvorit.ca Photo: Deborah Khodanovich. License: All Rights Reserved.


Source: www.avrie.world Photo by: Avrie Allen. License: All Rights Reserved.

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