I Happen to Be Rock presents the culminating work of seven Cornell MFA candidates — Marissa Cote, Michael Morgan, Sheila Novak, Onome Olotu, Faye Pamintuan, Carla Rangel García, and Yun Hsiang Wang — across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, writing, and expanded material practices. The title evokes contingency and endurance: something accidental and elemental, formed under pressure. Across distinct practices in dynamic conversation, the exhibition moves through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, and memory — insisting on persistence, relation, transformation, and becoming.