Faculty Profiles
Keira Alexandra Graphic designer. Ms. Alexandra graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 with a B.F.A. in graphic design. She then worked for some of New York’s most notable design firms including M&Co., Bureau, and Number 17. In 1999 she moved into the field of broadcast, first as an on-air designer/director at MTV, followed by a post as creative director of Sundance Channel. She currently mans her own mobile creative services shop, Employee Number 1. Ms. Alexandra’s work has been included in the 100 Show, the Art Directors Club, Creativity 30, AIGA 365, and the BDA Design Awards and featured in ID, Metropolis, Eye, Bust, Print, and Dwell magazines. Ms. Alexandra has worked as a lecturer and part-time critic at Yale on and off since 2000.
Jonathan Andrews Filmmaker. Mr. Andrews received his B.A. in film studies from Yale University in 1996. His first film, The Night Tram, was produced during a semester abroad at FAMU, the national film academy of the Czech Republic, and was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 1995. His senior project film, Short Change, won the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts and received a Student Academy Award in 1996. In 2001 Mr. Andrews wrote, produced, and directed Pursuing Happiness, a feature-length digital motion picture set in small-town Vermont. Mr. Andrews was appointed lecturer in 2003.
Mark Aronson Conservator. Mr. Aronson received a B.A. in art from Reed College, an M.S. in the conservation and preservation of artistic and historic artifacts from the University of Delaware, Winterthur Museum program, and a certificate of study in painting conservation from the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University. He was a Getty Fellow at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; both an IMLS and Mellon Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and a National Museum Act Fellow in Painting Conservation at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He served as the chief conservator at the Yale University Art Gallery for fourteen years, has lectured in Yale’s History of Art department, and has been a guest conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr. Aronson is particularly interested in the history of painting techniques and attitudes toward restoration and conservation. Since July 2007 he has been the chief conservator of paintings at the Yale Center for British Art; he was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2008.
Dore Ashton Author and critic. Ms. Ashton received an M.A. from Harvard University. She is among the world’s most authoritative critics of modern and contemporary art. She is the author or editor of thirty books on art and culture, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, Rosa Bonheur in Her Time (with Denise Browne Hare), A Fable of Modern Art, Yes, But: A Critical Study of Philip Guston, A Joseph Cornell Album, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, Picasso On Art, The Sculpture of Pol Bury, Richard Lindner, A Reading of Modern Art, Modern American Sculpture, Rauschenberg’s Dante, The Unknown Shore, Redon, Moreau, Bresdin, Philip Guston, Poets and the Past, Abstract Art Before Columbus, and David Smith: Medals for Dishonor. She has won many awards and recognitions, including Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1963 and 1969. Ms. Ashton is professor of art history at the Cooper Union in New York and was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking at Yale in 2002.
Michel Auder Artist. Born in Soissons, France, Mr. Auder was made to join the military at a young age as a photographer during the Algerian war. Returning to Paris, he started to make films and later joined a group of filmmakers during the protests of May 1968. Arriving in New York City the following year, he was the first to employ the video camera as his primary art-making device. Since then, his work has spanned a variety of styles and genres, all shot on video. He has exhibited widely in North America and Europe at such venues as Migros Museum, Zurich; Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Williams College Museum of Art; Anthology Film Archives; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Kunsthalle Wien; the Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva; and the Berlin, London, and Copenhagen film festivals. Mr. Auder taught in the sculpture department in 2006 and was appointed critic at Yale in 2009.
Nicole Awai Painter. Ms. Awai was born in Trinidad and educated in the United States. She received her B.A. in 1991 and an M.F.A. in multimedia art in 1996 from the University of South Florida. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997. She has exhibited widely in the United States as well as internationally at such institutions as MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the Salvador Dalí Museum, and the Queens Museum of Art. Ms. Awai’s work was included in the Biennial of Ceramic in Contemporary Art in Italy in 2003 and in the Busan Biennale in Korea in 2008. She has been an artist in residence at numerous places including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Hunter College. She was invited to speak about her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art as featured artist in the Initial Public Offerings series in 2005. Ms. Awai’s work is included in the traveling exhibition Global Caribbean: Focus on the Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art Landscape, and she was a featured speaker at the resulting “Global Caribbean Symposium: Interrogating the Politics of Location in Literature and Culture” (2010), a collaboration with the University of Miami. Ms. Awai was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2009.
Michael Bierut Graphic designer. Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Prior to joining the international design consultancy Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal. He has served as president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and as a director of the Architectural League of New York, and is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. He is a co-editor of the Looking Closer series of design criticism anthologies, a founding contributor to the online journal DesignObserver.com, and the author of Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). In 2008 he received the Design Mind award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He was appointed lecturer in graphic design at Yale in 1993 and is currently senior critic.
Julian Bittiner Graphic designer. Mr. Bittiner is an independent designer originally from Geneva, Switzerland. He received B.F.A.s in fine art and in graphic design from Art Center College of Design in 1995 and 1999, and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale in 2008. He worked variously as a designer and art director at MetaDesign, Wolff Olins, and Apple Inc., establishing an independent practice in 2004 focused primarily on the cultural sector. His work has appeared in books including Language, Culture, Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode; Regular: Graphic Design Today; and Grown in California; and the magazines ID and Creative Review; and his writing has been published in the journal Visual Communication. In 2008 he organized the first Yale M.F.A. Graphic Design traveling exhibition, Dawdle & Gape. He was appointed lecturer in graphic design at Yale in 2008.
Irma Boom Graphic designer. Ms. Boom is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer who specializes in making books. After earning her B.F.A. in graphic design from the AKI Art Academy in Enschedé, she worked for five years at the Dutch government publishing and printing office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office, which works nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors. Clients include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Aga Khan Foundation for Architects, the Museum of Modern Art, Prince Claus Fund, Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum, Camper, Mallorca, Ferrari, Vitra International, the United Nations, and OMA/Rem Koolhaas. For five years she worked (editing and concept/design) on the 2,136-page SHV Think Book 1996–1896, commissioned by SHV Holdings in Utrecht and published in English and Chinese. Ms. Boom has been the recipient of many awards for her book designs and was the youngest ever laureate to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her complete oeuvre. The University of Amsterdam manages the Irma Boom Archive, and recently the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired her work for the permanent collection in the Design and Architecture Department. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1992 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Matthew Carter Type designer. Mr. Carter began his career by studying punch cutting at the Enschedé printing house in Holland. After working as a lettering designer in London, he moved to New York City in 1965 to join the Mergenthaler Linotype Company as staff type designer. There he designed several typefaces including Cascade, Snell Roundhand, Helvetica Compressed, and Olympian, and faces for the Greek and Korean scripts. In 1971 Mr. Carter returned to London to work in continued association with the Linotype companies on faces for Hebrew and Devanagari, and on ITC Galliard, a series of classical romans and italics in four weights released in 1982. He designed Bell Centennial, the typeface currently used for telephone directories. He worked for ten years at Bitstream, Inc., the digital typefoundry of which he was one of the founders, where he designed Bitstream Charter. He is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company that produces new typeface designs. Among those typefaces is Yale, designed for use in the University’s print and Web publications. Mr. Carter is a Royal Designer for Industry. He has received a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and medals from AIGA and the Type Directors Club. He has been senior critic at Yale since 1976.
Jon Conner Sculptor. Mr. Conner received his B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1994 and his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2002. Since 1994 he has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York. He has recently participated in exhibitions at MetroTech/Public Art Fund, New York; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn.; and Socrates Sculpture Park, New York. In 2002 he received a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and in 2005 he was awarded a fellowship in sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mr. Conner was appointed lecturer in sculpture in 2005.
Gregory Crewdson Photographer. Mr. Crewdson received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985 and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University in 1988. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City. Mr. Crewdson’s work is represented in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has received numerous awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Mr. Crewdson has published several books of his photographs including Hover (Artspace Books), Dream of Life (University of Salamanca, Spain), Twilight (Harry N. Abrams), and a retrospective book of his work, Gregory Crewdson from 1985 to 2005 (Hatje Cantz). His most recent work was shown in 2008 at Luhring Augustine in New York, Gagosian in Los Angeles, and White Cube in London. A book entitled Beneath the Roses (Harry N. Abrams) was published in concurrence with these shows. As a teacher, Mr. Crewdson has held positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York at Purchase, and Vassar. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1993 and is currently professor (adjunct) and acting director of graduate studies in photography.
Glen Cummings Graphic designer. Mr. Cummings is a graphic designer based in New York City. He received a B.F.A. in graphic design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale in 2002. He worked as designer/art director at 2x4 until 2008, leading projects for clients such as MTV, Prada, Chanel, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, and the Muhammad Ali Center. His work has been published and acknowledged by the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Interior Design Magazine, and New York Times Magazine, and it has been exhibited by the AIGA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Currently Mr. Cummings is partner at MTWTF, aka Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday, in New York City. He was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2002.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Graphic designer and public artist. Ms. de Bretteville received a B.A. in art history from Barnard College in 1962, an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1964, and honorary degrees from California College of Arts and Crafts, Moore College of Art, and Otis College of Art and Design. She was designated “Design Legend” by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2006. Her numerous publications on art and culture include The Photographs of Dorothy Norman and The Motown Album, as well as public art works: Biddy Mason: Time and Place and Omoide no Shotokyo in Los Angeles; Search: Literature in Flushing, New York; At the start…At long last… in New York City’s 207th Street Inwood “A” train station; Path of Stars in New Haven; and Step(pe) in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Ms. de Bretteville worked as designer for Chanticleer Press, Yale University Press, and Olivetti Publicita in Milan before opening the Sheila Studio in 1970. Her work in books, magazines, and newspapers includes the redesign of the Los Angeles Times, special issues of the Aspen Times, Everywoman, American Cinematographer, and Arts in Society. Her posters and fine press editions are in the special collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and numerous university and public libraries. In 1971, at the California Institute of the Arts, she created the first women’s design program and, in 1973, founded the Woman’s Building and its Women’s Graphic Center in Los Angeles. In 1981 she initiated and chaired the Department of Communication Design at Otis/Parsons. Ms. de Bretteville joined the Yale School of Art faculty in 1990 as its first tenured woman, when she was appointed professor and director of graduate studies in graphic design. In 2010 she was named the Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia Photographer. After attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mr. diCorcia earned an M.F.A. from Yale in 1979. He has since worked in various aspects of the photographic medium, for which he has earned exhibitions, grants, fellowships, and awards. He is represented by numerous galleries. In 1995 the Museum of Modern Art published a book surveying his work, and other publications have followed. Twin Palms published A Storybook Life in 2003, his first self-produced book, which toured as an exhibition through 2005. Mr. diCorcia has been a critic at Yale at various times since 1996 and is currently senior critic.
Dru Donovan Photographer. Ms. Donovan received a B.F.A. in photography from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an M.F.A. in photography in 2009 from Yale University, where she was awarded the Richard Benson Prize for excellence. Her work has been included in reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. In 2011 TBW Books published her first book, Lifting Water. She is one of the 2011–12 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residents. Ms. Donovan was appointed lecturer in photography at Yale in 2011.
Carroll Dunham Painter. Mr. Dunham received his B.A. from Trinity College in 1972. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Japan and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous public and private collections. Mr. Dunham is represented in New York by Gladstone Gallery and David Nolan Gallery. A mid-career survey exhibition of his work was held at the New Museum, New York, in 2002–2003. He was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking in 2001.
Paul Elliman Graphic designer. Mr. Elliman is a London-based designer. His work explores the mutual impact of technology and language in ways that combine research and historical scholarship with a range of resources from typography to the human voice. Mr. Elliman’s work has been exhibited at London’s Tate Modern, New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Kunsthalle Basel, and is included in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Anyang Public Art Project (Korea). He has contributed essays to many international journals and magazines as well as catalogs and monographs for other artists. Mr. Elliman is also a thesis supervisor for Werkplaats Typografie, a graphic design program in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1997 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Anoka Faruqee Painter. Ms. Faruqee received a B.A. from Yale University in 1994 and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art in 1997. She has exhibited her work in the United States, Asia, and the Middle East at such venues as Max Protetch and Monya Rowe galleries (New York), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Queens), Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo), Angles Gallery (Los Angeles), Carl Berg Gallery (Los Angeles), Chicago Cultural Center, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), and Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco and New York). She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, the Skowhegan School of Art, and the P.S.1 National Studio Program. Grants include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Artadia. Ms. Faruqee has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and California Institute of the Arts, where she was codirector of the art program. Ms. Faruqee was appointed associate professor of painting/printmaking at Yale in 2011 and is director of graduate studies in 2012–2013.
Rochelle Feinstein Painter and printmaker. Ms. Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is included in numerous public and private collections. Among recent awards and grants she has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. In 2012 she was chosen as an artist in residence in Ghana at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in Accra under the auspices of the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ new smARTpower program. During the 2012–2013 academic year while on leave from Yale, she will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 and is professor of painting/printmaking.
Karin Fong Director and designer. Ms. Fong received a B.A. in art from Yale College in 1993. In 1994 she moved to Los Angeles and became one of the original members of the production and design company Imaginary Forces. She now directs out of its New York office. She has created sequences for numerous feature films, including the main titles of Ray, Charlotte’s Web, The Truman Show, and The Pink Panther 2. Her work in broadcast has earned her an Emmy award for main title design. Ms. Fong directs television commercials, counting Target, Herman Miller, and Honda among her clients. Other projects include theatrical experience designs for settings that range from Las Vegas to the Los Angeles Opera. Her work has appeared in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Wexner Center, and in numerous publications on design and film. She was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2008.
Tobias Frere-Jones Type designer. Mr. Frere-Jones received his B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. In 2000 he began work with Jonathan Hoefler in New York. He has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients, and experimental purposes. His clients include Martha Stewart Living, GQ, Wired, Nike, Hewlett-Packard, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Grand Central Terminal, the U.S. Census Bureau, Tibor Kalman, and Neville Brody. He has lectured throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and his work has been featured in How, I.D., Page, Print, Communication Arts, Metropolis, Esquire, and Time. In 2006 he became the first American to receive the Gerrit Noordzij Award, presented by the Royal Academy of The Hague in honor of his special contributions to typography. He was appointed critic in graphic design in 1996.
John Gambell Graphic designer. Mr. Gambell received a B.A. in English from Middlebury College in 1971. From 1977 to 1979 he studied printmaking and graphic design at Wesleyan University and worked on a range of photographic printing projects under the direction of Richard Benson in Newport, Rhode Island. After receiving his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1981, he served as graphic designer at the Yale University Printing Service. In 1987 he established a design studio in New Haven that produced a range of print publications and museum exhibition catalogs, as well as signage and packaging. He has been teaching graphic design since 1983 and was appointed senior critic in 1998. Mr. Gambell is the Yale University Printer.
Barbara Glauber Graphic designer. Ms. Glauber received her B.F.A. from SUNY, Purchase, in 1984 and her M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990. She runs her New York-based studio, Heavy Meta, focusing on the design of publications, information graphics, and other materials for clients in the arts, education, and entertainment industries. She curated the 1993 exhibition Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Quote Unquote Vernacular at Cooper Union, and she edited its accompanying publication. She also served as chair for the eighteenth annual American Center for Design 100 Show. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1995 and is currently critic in graphic design.
Paul Graham Photographer. Mr. Graham received a B.Sc. from Bristol University, U.K. He was the first photographer to combine the sensibility of contemporary color photography with classic British social documentary. Publications include a dedicated Phaidon monograph and, most recently, a twelve-volume set of books: A Shimmer of Possibility (2004–7). His work has been exhibited extensively, including a one-person show at the Tate Gallery, London (1996), and he participated in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland’s Fotomuseum Winterthur. He was one of only two British photographers included in the Tate Gallery’s landmark Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of twentieth-century photography (2003). His work is found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Gallery, and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Mr. Graham resided in the U.K. for most of his life and moved in 2002 to New York City, where he is now a permanent resident. He was appointed critic in photography at Yale in 2003.
Josephine Halvorson Artist. Ms. Halvorson received a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union in 2003 and an M.FA from Columbia University in 2007, and she attended the Art Division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2002. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna, Austria (2003–4), a Tiffany Foundation Award (2009), and an NYFA Fellowship in Painting (2010). Ms. Halvorson has enjoyed yearlong residencies in Paris as a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar at the Fondation des États-Unis (2007–8), and in Brooklyn at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2009–10). Her work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and upcoming exhibitions include Perceiving Place at Alfred University, Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting at the School of Visual Arts, and Americana at Hunter College. She has taught at Columbia University and been a visiting artist at Rutgers University; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Vassar College; Massachusetts College of Art and Design; and Yale Summer School of Music and Art. She was appointed critic in painting/printmaking at Yale in 2010 and again in 2012.
Jessica Helfand Graphic designer. Ms. Helfand received both her B.A. in graphic design and architectural theory and her M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University. She is a partner with William Drenttel in Winterhouse and a founding editor of Design Observer, the largest online forum for design criticism and commentary. In 2006 she was appointed by the Postmaster General to the U.S. Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, where she chairs the Design Subcommittee. Ms. Helfand is the author of several books including Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), Reinventing the Wheel: Information Design and the Tyranny of Alignment (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 and 2002), and Scrapbooks: An American History (Yale University Press, 2008). She has written for numerous national publications, including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Aperture, and The New Republic; has lectured widely in the United States and abroad; and is a 2010 recipient of the Henry Wolf Residency in graphic design at the American Academy in Rome. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Jim Hodges Sculptor. Mr. Hodges received his B.F.A. in 1980 from Fort Wright College and his M.F.A. in 1986 from the Pratt Institute. His work, which explores themes of fragility, temporality, love, and death, frequently uses different materials and techniques, from ready-made objects to traditional media, such as graphite and ink. He has been the subject of many solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe and has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial. He was appointed senior critic in sculpture at Yale in 2011.
Allen Hori Graphic designer. Mr. Hori received a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Hawaii and earned an M.F.A. in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, after which he received a Fulbright Grant to study in The Netherlands. Mr. Hori is principal at Bates Hori, New York, a graphic design and visual research studio. The studio’s work has been recognized by New York Type Directors, American Center for Design, AIGA, and I.D. magazine and published in Emigre, Eye, IDEA, Studio Voice, and +81, as well as the books Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse, Typography Now, The Graphic Edge, Mixing Messages, Typography Now Two, Graphic Design New York 2, Dutch Posters 1960–1996, and Studio Dumbar: Behind the Seen. Mr. Hori has lectured widely at various design schools and professional symposia, including “Designer as Editor” at the Design Institute in Amsterdam and “Displaced Voices” at Gallery DDD in Osaka. Bates Hori has been named as one of I.D.’s Top Forty Influential Designers. Mr. Hori was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2000 and is currently critic in graphic design.
Pamela Hovland Graphic designer. Ms. Hovland received a B.S. in design and communications from Bemidji State University in 1983 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1993. She has worked extensively in the areas of identity and print communications and Web design for corporations, nonprofit organizations, and cultural institutions. Her work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the New York Type Director’s Club, Emigre, Print, I.D., and Eye, among others, and has been included in many exhibitions. She is a founding member of Class Action, the art collective that uses design to effect social change. She was the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in design in 2005–2006. Ms. Hovland was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1993 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Brent Howard Sculptor. Mr. Howard received his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999 and his M.F.A. from Hunter College (CUNY) in New York City in 2002. He has exhibited his work in various galleries in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. He is the president and founder of Soapstone Studios in Brooklyn, New York, where his clients have included Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, David Byrne, and Nari Ward. Mr. Howard worked for many years in close collaboration with Louise Bourgeois, for whom he created many pieces including Maman (2001) and Spider Couple (2003). Mr. Howard was appointed lecturer in sculpture at Yale in 2009.
David Humphrey Painter. Mr. Humphrey received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977 and an M.A. in liberal studies from New York University in 1980. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co. His first show was with the McKee Gallery in 1984, and he has since been exhibiting nationally and internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He received the Rome prize in 2007, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two New York Foundation Grants. He wrote a column for Art issues from 1989 until the journal’s demise in 2002 and is a periodic contributor to Art in America. An anthology of his writing, Blind Handshake, was released in 2009 by Periscope Publishing. Mr. Humphrey was appointed critic at Yale in 2007.
Kellie Jones Art historian. Kellie Jones received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999 and is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African diaspora artists, Latino/a and Latin American artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. Her teaching covers the seventeenth century through the twenty-first century. She was named an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellow in 2008 for her writing on visual art, and in 2005 she was the inaugural recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in African American art and art history from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Her writings have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and the journals Nka, Artforum, Flash Art, Atlantica, and Third Text, among others. Her book EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2011) has been named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly. Her project “Taming the Freeway and Other Acts of Urban HIP-notism: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s” is forthcoming from the MIT Press. She was appointed visiting associate professor in painting/printmaking at Yale in 2012.
Clint Jukkala Painter. Mr. Jukkala received a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1995 and an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 1998. He is represented by Envoy Gallery in New York, and his work has been included in recent exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and ZieherSmith Gallery in New York. He has also taught at the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University. Mr. Jukkala has taught at Yale since 2001. He is currently associate professor of painting/printmaking and director of undergraduate studies in art.
Deborah Kass Painter. Ms. Kass studied at the Art Students League and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and received her B.F.A. in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New Orleans Museum of Art, among others. She has exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Ms. Kass has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery and Vincent Fremont. Ms. Kass was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking in 2005.
Lisa Kereszi Photographer. Ms. Kereszi graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in photography and a minor in literature/creative writing in 1995. After college she moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to Nan Goldin. In 2000 she received an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. She has traveled to Central Asia to teach a group of artists through an exchange program through CEC Arts Link, and recently was a MacDowell Fellow. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Study Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her work has been shown in group shows at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Aldrich Museum, the Bronx Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Urban Center Gallery at the Municipal Art Society in New York, Hunter College, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She had a solo show in May 2002 and again in March 2003 at Pierogi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the latter of which traveled to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where she had solo shows in 2005, 2006, and 2009. Other recent solo shows were held at the Galleries at Moore College in Philadelphia; at the Matrix Gallery at UC Berkeley, as part of her 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers; and at the Yale School of Architecture, NYU, Parsons, Bard College, UNC Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State University. Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, New York, Harper’s, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, GQ, Black Book, Jane, Newsweek, House & Garden, Tokion, Penthouse, Nylon, zingmagazine, Flaunt, and wallpaper*. She was included in the 2003 list of the thirty top emerging photographers by Photo District News and was granted a commission to photograph Governor’s Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003; the latter culminated in shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall and a book. She has taught at the International Center of Photography and has been a visiting artist/critic at many schools and universities. Ms. Kereszi was appointed lecturer in photography at Yale in 2004.
Byron Kim Painter. Mr. Kim received a B.A. from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. He has received numerous awards including the Alpert Award, a Ucross Foundation fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He has been exhibiting in solo and two-person shows since 1992 and has shown with artists such as Kiki Smith and Glenn Ligon. Mr. Kim has participated in group exhibition across the United States and in Korea, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. His work is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Worcester Art Museum. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, NY Arts, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Art in America, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Frieze, Time Magazine, and the Village Voice. Mr. Kim lives and works in New York and is represented by Max Protetch. He was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking in 2009 and again in 2012.
Siobhan Liddell Sculptor. By using ambient light, the reflective color of materials, and text, Ms. Liddell’s work explores subtlety and simplicity, material and process, and form and meaning. In addition to regular exhibitions in New York City, Ms. Liddell’s work has been shown at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan. She was in the 1995 Whitney Biennial, and she is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Born in Worksop, U.K., she now lives and works in New York City. Ms. Liddell was appointed lecturer at Yale in 2010.
Marie Lorenz Painter/Printmaker. Ms. Lorenz received a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in 2002. In addition to the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship awarded by Yale, she has received grants from Artists Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Harpo Foundation. Her work has been shown at High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California, and at Artists Space in New York, and she has completed solo projects at Ikon in Birmingham, England; Artpace in San Antonio, Texas; and Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. In 2008 she was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She began her project The Tide and Current Taxi, a performance in the New York Harbor that is still in progress, in 2005. Ms. Lorenz was appointed assistant professor in painting/printmaking in 2009.
Sandra Luckow Filmmaker. Ms. Luckow is an award-winning documentarian who teaches film production for the School of Art and Barnard College. As a Yale undergraduate, she made her first documentary, Sharp Edges, which won the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts. Portions of the film appeared on the CBS program 60 Minutes eight years later. She received an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her documentary film Belly Talkers, a cross-country road trip that explored the art of ventriloquism, premiered in competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. She has also worked as an associate director on ABC’s One Life to Live. She is a member of the International Documentary Association and the Directors Guild of America. She founded Ojeda Films, Inc., as an independent film company devoted to the development and execution of documentary art. She is currently writing a screenplay based on a World War II Dutch memoir. Ms. Luckow was appointed critic in film production in 1998 and is the director of production of the Yale Summer Film Institute.
Joseph Maida Photographer. Mr. Maida received a B.A. in 1999 from Columbia University, where he studied architecture and art history, and an M.F.A. in photography in 2001 from Yale University. He has exhibited his work in New York at venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum of Art, Wallspace, the Homefront Gallery, Art in General, Artists Space, and PS122, and has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Pro Arte Center, St. Petersburg; the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and the Nikon Salons, Tokyo and Osaka. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. His editorial commissions have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, W, Details, GQ, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, House and Garden, Tokion, and Wallpaper*. Mr. Maida has taught photography since 2002 at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School for Design. He was appointed lecturer in photography at Yale in 2011.
Karel Martens Graphic designer. Mr. Martens completed his education at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Industrial Arts (Holland) in 1961. Since then he has worked as a freelance graphic designer, specializing in typography. In addition to commissioned work, he has always made prints and three-dimensional work. Among his clients have been the publishers Van Loghum Slaterus in Arnhem in the 1960s, and the SUN (Socialistiese Uitgeverij Nijmegen) in the years 1975–81. As well as designing books and printed matter, he has designed stamps and telephone cards (for the Dutch PTT). He has also designed signs and typographic facades for a number of buildings. In 2005 he designed the glass facades of the new part of the building for the Philharmonie in Haarlem; this design was based on a music score by Louis Andriessen. Among his awards have been the H. N. Werkman Prize (1993) for the design of the architectural journal Oase, and the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for the Arts (1996). A monograph about his work, Karel Martens: Printed Matter, was published as part of the Heineken Prize. Mr. Martens has taught graphic design since 1977, first at the Arnhem Academy and later (1994–97) at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 1997, with Wigger Bierma, he founded the Typography Workshop, within the Arnhem Academy of Art, where he shares the artistic supervision of students with Armand Mevis. Mr. Martens was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1997 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Samuel Messer Painter. Mr. Messer received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1976 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1981. He is represented by Nielsen Gallery, Boston, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles. His work may be found in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University Art Gallery. Mr. Messer has received awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984, the Engelhard Award in 1985, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1993, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. He has recently collaborated with Paul Auster on The Story of My Typewriter, and with Denis Johnson on Cloud of Chalk. He was appointed senior critic at Yale in 1994 and in 2005 was appointed associate dean and professor (adjunct). He also serves as director of the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk.
Dan Michaelson Graphic designer. Mr. Michaelson received a B.A. in history from Columbia University in 1997 and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University in 2002. He has worked as a designer at Pentagram and at 2x4 in New York City. He is a partner in the design practice Linked By Air. In 2004 he was awarded a Charles Nypels grant for research on embedded digital sign systems. Mr. Michaelson was appointed lecturer in graphic design in 2005.
Manuel Miranda Graphic designer. Mr. Miranda received a B.A. from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, in 1996, and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale in 2005. He has worked across all media for corporations, institutions, and nonprofits. Currently practicing as an independent consultant, he was previously a designer at Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy & Mather and an art director at 2×4, Inc. His work has been cited in Design Observer, New York Magazine, Core77, Gothamist, and Urban Omnibus. Mr. Miranda was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2011.
Sigi Moeslinger Graphic designer. Ms. Moeslinger is a partner at Antenna Design New York Inc., which she co-founded with Masamichi Udagawa in 1997. Antenna’s design projects range from public and commercial to experimental and artistic, typically spanning object, interface, and environment. Among Antenna’s best-known projects are the design of New York City subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks, Bloomberg displays, and interactive environments, such as Power Flower, an installation in the windows of Bloomingdale’s activated by passersby. Antenna’s user-centered design approach helps understand human behavior, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology. Antenna’s work has won numerous awards, including recognition from Business Week/IDSA, I.D., Fast Company, and Wired magazines. In 2006 Ms. Moeslinger and Mr. Udagawa were named United States Artists Target Fellows in the Architecture and Design category. In 2008 Antenna won the National Design Award in Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Before forming Antenna, Ms. Moeslinger was an Interval Research Fellow at New York University, where she designed and built digitally enhanced objects. Prior, she was at IDEO in San Francisco, working on corporate product design languages, consumer products, and equipment, as well as future scenarios for new technology products. She holds a master’s degree in interactive telecommunications from New York University and a B.S. in industrial design from Art Center College of Design. She joined the Yale faculty in 2005 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Matthew Mulder Graphic designer. Mr. Mulder received a B.F.A in graphic design from the University of Florida in 1993 and an M.F.A. in two-dimensional design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1998. He is creative director in the Seattle office of Digital Kitchen, a studio focused on bridging entertainment and design. Most recently, Mr. Mulder led the team that created the main titles for the HBO series True Blood. His work has been nominated for five Emmys, and he has been recognized by the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, and American Cinematographer, among others. He has contributed to various design programs including those at California Institute of the Arts, the University of Hawaii, and Art Center College of Design. Mr. Mulder was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2009.
Gisela Noack Bookbinder/Conservator. Ms. Noack graduated from Chemieschule Ehlhard in Munich, Germany. She studied bookbinding and restoration with Jane Greenfield and worked as a conservation bookbinder in the conservation department of Yale University Library from 1976 through 2007. In 1983 she was appointed chief conservator and head of conservation; Ms. Noack retired from this position in 2007. She continues to teach bookbinding and conservation classes at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven. Ms. Noack was appointed lecturer in bookbinding in the graphic design program at Yale in 1989.
Sarah Oppenheimer Artist. Ms. Oppenheimer received a B.A. from Brown University in 1995 and an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 1999. Recent projects include MF-142 at Annely Juda, London; VP-41 at Art Unlimited, Basel; and Automatic Cities at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Drawing Center, the Sculpture Center, Skulpturens Hus (Stockholm), the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Mattress Factory among others. She is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 2009, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2007, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art 2007, an NYFA fellowship (in the category of Architecture/Environmental Structures) 2006, and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship 2003. Ms. Oppenheimer joined the Yale faculty in 2003 and was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2005.
Tod Papageorge Photographer. Mr. Papageorge began to photograph during his last term at the University of New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1962 with a B.A. in English literature. In 1970 he received the first of two Guggenheim fellowships in photography and, at about the same time, began his teaching career in New York City. He is the author of Public Relations: The Photographs of Garry Winogrand and Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, which were prepared in conjunction with exhibitions that he curated for the Museum of Modern Art in 1977 and the Yale University Art Gallery in 1981. His work has been widely exhibited nationally and in Europe, and is represented in many major public collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Two collections of his photographs, Passing through Eden and American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, were published in 2007 and 2008, respectively. In 1979 Mr. Papageorge was appointed Walker Evans Professor, and he served as director of graduate studies in photography from 1979 to 2011.
John Pilson Artist. Mr. Pilson received a B.A. in 1991 from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied photography and philosophy, and an M.F.A. in photography in 1993 from Yale University. He has exhibited his work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and at the Museum of Modern Art and recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany. Mr. Pilson has been an artist-in-residence at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the LMCC World Views Program. At the Venice Biennale in 2002 he was awarded one of four prizes given to artists in the International Exhibition. A grant from the Penny McCall Foundation made possible several of his latest projects, including St. Denis, which was shown in October 2003 at Nicole Klagsbrun (NYC). Mr. Pilson was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2001 and is currently a critic.
Christopher Pullman Graphic designer. Mr. Pullman received a B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1963, enrolling the same year in a three-year graduate program in graphic design at Yale School of Art. Upon obtaining his M.F.A. in 1966, he began teaching in the design program at Yale, an affiliation he continues as senior critic teaching time-based design. For several years he was a typographer and letterpress printer for Universal Limited Art Editions on Long Island, and from 1968 to 1972 he was a consultant designer for the office of George Nelson in New York City. During this period, he also served on the original design faculty of the State University of New York at Purchase. In 1973 Mr. Pullman joined public broadcasting station WGBH, Boston, where he served as vice president for design and branding until 2008. In 1986 WGBH received the Design Leadership Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He has lectured widely and published articles on design and television that have appeared in Communication Arts Magazine, Design Quarterly, Critique, and several anthologies. He has served on the board of the Design Management Institute and the Corporate Design Foundation, reflecting his interest in the relation between design and business. He has also been a member of the national board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and the American Center for Design. In 2002 Mr. Pullman received the AIGA Gold Medal for his career as a designer and teacher.
Michael Queenland Artist. Mr. Queenland received his B.A. in 1998 and his M.F.A. in 2002 from UCLA. He lives and works in New York City. In his sculptures and photographs he explores the legacies of radical social and political movements in the United States, often using everyday or ephemeral materials such as soap bubbles, brooms, and spider webs. His recent works relate minimal and conceptual art to the ethic and aesthetic of Shaker furniture. Mr. Queenland has had solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art and at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. His work has been included in many group shows, including Trace at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria and Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where he was artist in residence in 2005. Mr. Queenland joined the sculpture faculty in 2007 and was appointed assistant professor in 2010.
Robert J. Reed, Jr. Painter. Mr. Reed studied at Morgan State College, where he received a B.S. in 1958, and later at Yale School of Art, where he received a B.F.A. in 1960 and an M.F.A. in 1962. He attended the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1960. His work has been exhibited in America and in Europe and has been included in group exhibits at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. His solo exhibits include the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Bayly Museum in Charlottesville, Virginia; the Washburn Gallery in New York; and the McIntosh Gallery in Atlanta. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Bayly Museum. Mr. Reed has lectured extensively in this country and has taught at Skidmore College and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he was head of the Foundation Studies Division in 1964. He is the author of several intensive studio programs, and is the founder and director of the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France, which is associated with Yale Summer Session. From 1970 to 1974 he directed the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art. He has had several appointments as director of undergraduate studies in art at Yale since 1969 and has also served as director of graduate studies in painting. He has been a Yaddo Fellow and a board member for the McDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. In 1980 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000 he received the national award from the National Council of Art Administrators, and in 2001 he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2004 Mr. Reed received the Distinguished Teaching of Art award from the College Art Association, and in 2009 he was elected to the National Academy Fellowship in New York. His work is represented by David Findlay Jr. Fine Art in New York. He was appointed to the faculty in 1969 and is professor of painting/printmaking.
Jock Reynolds Artist and museum director. Mr. Reynolds earned a B.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.F.A. in 1972 from the University of California, Davis. From 1973 to 1983 he was an associate professor and director of the graduate program at the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at San Francisco State University, and was also a cofounder of New Langton Arts, San Francisco’s premier alternative artists’ space. From 1983 to 1989 Mr. Reynolds served as the executive director of the Washington Project for the Arts, a multidisciplinary visual artists’ association in Washington, D.C., before becoming the director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, a position he held until September 1998, when he was appointed the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and professor (adjunct). Mr. Reynolds has won numerous grants and awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists fellowships, a Fulbright fellowship, and multiple National Endowment for the Arts/Art in Public Places project awards. Mr. Reynolds frequently collaborates in his work with Suzanne Hellmuth, his wife. Their performances, installations, and photographs have been commissioned and exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions and installations in Japan, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and across the United States. Mr. Reynolds’s and Ms. Hellmuth’s artwork is represented in both private and public collections, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery.
Michael Rock Graphic designer. Mr. Rock received a B.A. in humanities from Union College in 1981 and an M.F.A. in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. From 1984 to 1991 he served on the graphic design faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently a partner in the graphic design studio 2x4. His articles and essays on design and visual culture appear in magazines and journals internationally. In 1999 he received the Rome Prize in design from the American Academy in Rome. 2x4 was the subject of a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and the recipient of the 2006 National Design Award. A selection of 2x4’s work was on display at the Architecture and Design Gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in New York throughout 2008. Mr. Rock was appointed to the graphic design faculty in 1991 and currently holds the rank of professor (adjunct).
Michael Roemer Filmmaker. Mr. Roemer, born in Germany, received his B.A. in 1949 from Harvard University, where he wrote and directed the first feature film produced at an American college. He has since worked on films with Robert Young, and he produced, directed, and wrote a series of twelve films for the Ford Foundation. With a Guggenheim Fellowship, he wrote Stone My Heart. His film Nothing but a Man was shown at the London and New York film festivals and was a double prize winner at the Venice Film Festival. Other films include Pilgrim Farewell and Dying, the latter having been nominated by the Television Critics Circle as the best documentary film of 1976. His film Vengeance Is Mine premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984. His 1970 film The Plot Against Harry was shown at the 1989 New York, Cannes, and Toronto film festivals and opened in theaters in 1990. He has published a book on plot, Telling Stories, and two volumes of his screenplays, Film Stories. Mr. Roemer has taught film theory and practice at the Yale School of Drama and is currently professor (adjunct) of American studies and of film at the Yale School of Art.
Collier Schorr Photographer. Ms. Schorr received a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1985. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and Modern Art in London. Ms. Schorr’s work is represented in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Walker Art Center. Her commercial photography is represented by Art+Commerce. Currently, she is the editor-at-large for the British art magazine Frieze, and she has been a contributor to Artforum and Parkett. Her essays have also appeared in catalogs for the Guggenheim Museum and the Boston ICA. She has taught at Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Schorr was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2003 and is currently senior critic in photography.
Douglass Scott Graphic designer. Mr. Scott received a B.Arch. from the University of Nebraska in 1971 and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University in 1974. He is a design director at the WGBH public broadcasting station in Boston, a freelance book and exhibition designer, art director of educational publisher Davis Publications, and a collage artist. Mr. Scott is on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design, has taught at Harvard University, Maine College of Art, and the Boston Architectural Center, and has been a visiting instructor/critic at a number of schools. He was curator of the 1987 Boston exhibition The Roots of Modern American Graphic Design and a curator of the history of American typography section of the exhibition Graphic Design in America, organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1989. Since 1978 he has given over 140 lectures on the history of design and typography at various schools, museums, and symposia. Mr. Scott was appointed visiting lecturer in graphic design in 1984 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Susan Sellers Graphic designer. Ms. Sellers received a B.F.A. in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. She went on to earn an M.A. in American Studies from Yale University, where her work explored mid-nineteenth-century labor practices in craft industries of printing and typesetting and the emergence of professionalized design practices. She has taught and lectured widely, and her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues, and Visible Language. She has held positions in several studios including Total Design and UNA in Amsterdam. Ms. Sellers is a founding partner at the design studio 2x4 in New York City. She was appointed to the faculty in 1997 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Taryn Simon Photographer. Ms. Simon received a B.A. in art semiotics in 1997 from Brown University. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Her work is represented in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tate Modern; Whitney Museum of American Art; Centre Pompidou; Museum für Moderne Kunst; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and High Museum of Art. Ms. Simon has been a visiting artist at Bard College, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the School of Visual Arts. Her books include The Innocents and, most recently, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (Steidl, 2008). Her photography and writing have been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, CNN, BBC, Frontline, and NPR. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 and is represented by Gagosian Gallery. Ms. Simon was appointed critic in photography at Yale in 2009 and again in 2012.
Elizabeth Sledge Editor. Ms. Sledge received an M.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1969 and a C.A.S. from Wesleyan University in 1995. Since 1979 she has served as a writing tutor for undergraduates in Yale College, and since 2007 she has tutored for Directed Studies. Ms. Sledge has taught writing as a member of the Yale English department and in Yale’s summer programs. She was appointed to the design faculty in 1985 to assist second-year graphic design students with thesis development and writing.
Todd St. John Artist. Mr. St. John is a designer, animator, and filmmaker, and founder of the New York-based studio HunterGatherer. He received his B.F.A. in graphic design from the University of Arizona in 1993. Through HunterGatherer, Mr. St. John has created work for everyone from Money Mark to the New York Times. Mr. St. John has exhibited internationally and was selected for the 2003 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, Design Now, along with frequent collaborator Gary Brenzel. In 2008 he was nominated for an Emmy and won a Webby for the animated short Circle Squared. He was appointed critic in graphic design in 2001.
William Storandt Editor. Mr. Storandt received a B.M. from the Juilliard School of Music in 1968. He pursued a freelance career as a percussionist, ranging from xylophone at Radio City Music Hall to tambourine for the Monkees to timpani in the Vermont Symphony, before sidling into writing accounts of his travels for Cruising World, a national sailing magazine. He wrote film treatments for Yale Films, a producer of documentaries, and has been tutoring Yale undergraduates in the Bass Writing Program since 1996. His memoir of a trans-Atlantic voyage, Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001, and his novel, The Summer They Came, was published by Villard/Random House in 2002. He was appointed to the design faculty in 2005 to assist second-year graphic design students with thesis development and writing.
Robert Storr Artist and critic. Mr. Storr received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized exhibitions on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith, and Robert Ryman, in addition to coordinating the Projects series from 1990 to 2000. In 2002 he was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Mr. Storr has also taught at the CUNY graduate center and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London). He has written numerous catalogs, articles, and books, including Philip Guston (Abbeville, 1986), Chuck Close (with Lisa Lyons, Rizzoli, 1987), and the forthcoming Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois. Among his many honors he has received a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maine College of Art, as well as awards from the American Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a special AICA award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Art Criticism, an ICI Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. In 2000 the French Ministry of Culture presented him with the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He is currently Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was the commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. Mr. Storr was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the School of Art in 2006.
Scott Stowell Graphic designer. Mr. Stowell received a B.F.A. in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. He is the proprietor of Open, an independent design studio that creates rewarding experiences for people who look, read, and think. Open projects include the visual identity for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; the editorial design of Good magazine; redesigns of the television networks Bravo, Nick at Nite, and Trio; and signage systems for the Brown University Friedman Study Center and the Yale University Art Gallery. Previously he was a senior designer at M&Co and art director of Benetton’s Colors magazine in Rome. His work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Art Directors Club of New York, the Association for Independent Music, Critique, Communication Arts, I.D., Print, the Society of Publication Designers, STEP Inside Design, the Tokyo Typedirectors Club, and the Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards. A former vice president of the New York chapter of the AIGA, he has also taught at Purchase College and the School of Visual Arts. Mr. Stowell was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2000 and is currently critic in graphic design.
Masamichi Udagawa Graphic designer. Mr. Udagawa is a partner at Antenna Design New York Inc., which he co-founded with Sigi Moeslinger in 1997. Antenna’s design projects range from public and commercial to experimental and artistic, typically spanning object, interface, and environment. Among Antenna’s best-known projects are the design of New York City subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks, Bloomberg displays, and interactive environments, such as Power Flower, an installation in the windows of Bloomingdale’s activated by passersby. Antenna’s user-centered design approach helps understand human behavior, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology. Antenna’s work has won numerous awards, including recognition from Business Week/IDSA, I.D., Fast Company, and Wired magazines. In 2006 Mr. Udagawa and Ms. Moeslinger were named United States Artists Target Fellows in the Architecture and Design category. In 2008 Antenna won the National Design Award in Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Before forming Antenna, Mr. Udagawa ran a New York satellite studio of IDEO Product Development. Prior to that, he was a senior designer at Apple Computer Industrial Design Group in Cupertino, California, where he designed a number of products such as the PowerBook 5300/3400 series. Before that, he worked at Emilio Ambasz Design Group in New York. Before coming to the United States, Mr. Udagawa worked at the Yamaha Product Design Laboratory in Japan, where he designed electronic musical instruments, including the award-winning YS200 synthesizer. He holds a master’s degree in industrial design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.E. in industrial design from Chiba University in Japan. He joined the Yale faculty in 2005 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.
Henk van Assen Graphic designer. Mr. van Assen graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Graphic Design and Typography) in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1989. After working several years as a graphic designer in Amsterdam, he came to the United States, where he received his M.F.A. in 1993 from Yale University. Mr. van Assen has since worked on many projects in print, environmental, and screen-based media, ranging from book design to identity programs to Web design and signage systems. Clients include Abrams, New York; Rizzoli, New York; Malba, Buenos Aires; the GeGo Foundation, Caracas; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of the City of New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; FotoFest, Houston; the New York Public Library; and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He coauthored, with Daniel M. Olsen, Ranch Gates of the Southwest (Trinity Press, 2009). He has taught design at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas, at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Additionally, he has lectured internationally, most recently in Mexico, China, and Canada. He was awarded the 1999, 2000, 2004, and 2005 AIGA 50 Best Books award, the 2000 and 2002 AAUP Best Book award, and the 2005 New York Book Show award. Currently, he is a principal of HvAD, a design studio in New York City. Mr. van Assen was appointed lecturer in graphic design in 1999 and is currently critic in graphic design.
Daniël van der Velden Graphic designer. A designer and writer, Mr. van der Velden is a partner in the design research think tank Metahaven, based in Amsterdam and Brussels. Mr. van der Velden’s work deals with research informing design practice, especially when creating logos, icons, symbols, and maps. With published projects on “totalitarian” architecture in Bucharest and Pyongyang, the Sealand anarchist base in the North Sea, and Quaero—a European search engine driven by cross-Atlantic antagonism—Metahaven focuses on the role of the political in visual identity. Mr. Van der Velden worked with Maureen Mooren from 1998 to 2007 on innovative identity concepts and publicity for the art space ROOM, the architectural magazine Archis‚ and the annual Holland Festival’s identity, posters, and publications, for which the duo received various awards. He currently serves as an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and as a tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2007.
Linda van Deursen Graphic designer. Ms. van Deursen lives and works in Amsterdam, where she and Armand Mevis began their collaboration after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1986. They have been influential in the development of contemporary Dutch design and are known for their intelligent and innovative work for cultural clients, producing the new identity of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the identity and publications for fashion duo Viktor & Rolf, and numerous books on architecture and design. They also have worked on several Dutch cultural publications, including Metropolis M, and won the competition for the graphic identity for the City of Rotterdam as a designated Cultural Capital of Europe. Their work has been shown in museums and educational institutions throughout the world. Their long and prolific collaboration has been documented in the book Recollected Work: Mevis & Van Deursen, published by Artimo in 2005. Ms. van Deursen serves as head of the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2005.
William Villalongo Painter. Mr. Villalongo is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Hollywood, Florida, and raised in the town of Bridgeton, New Jersey. He received a B.F.A. in 1999 from Cooper Union and an M.F.A. in painting in 2001 from Tyler School of Art. Mr. Villalongo’s work was first introduced to the public through his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2004 and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005 exhibition. His work has also been exhibited in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Frequency exhibition in 2005 and El Museo del Barrio’s fifth biennial, The (S) Files 2007. He is a recipient of both a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His work is included in several notable collections including the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, and Princeton University Art Museum. Mr. Villalongo was appointed lecturer in painting/printmaking at Yale in 2010.
