Visual Arts Faculty

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. BA, MFA, University of California-Los Angeles, School of Film and Television. Writer and director; nominated for the Rockefeller Artist Award, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Award, the Motion Picture Association of America Award, a George Soros/Sundance Institute grant; selected in 2000 by Filmmaker magazine as one of “25 new faces in independent film”; co-founded Soulfire Films (2000), a nonprofit production company; Soulfire’s flagship project, Grenada: A Dream Deferred, is a documentary that revisits the events and circumstances of the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada; directed and produced films for PBS, Bill Moyers, Mel Stuart Productions, the American Legacy Foundation, and Danny Glover’s Carrie Productions. SLC, 2003–

BFA, Washington University. MFA, Yale University. One-person and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe; works included in major private, corporate, and museum collections; awards and fellowships include the Federal Design Achievement Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council, and CAPS; public commissions include the MTA and St. Louis Bi-State Development. SLC, 1980–

BFA, Kansas City Art Institute. MFA, Temple University, Tyler School of Art. Exhibited in national and international shows. Exhibitions include CRG Gallery and Monya Rowe Gallery (New York City), Brooklyn Academy of Music, P.S. 1 Museum (New York City), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, Connecticut), Kinkead Contemporary Gallery (Los Angeles), Brandeis University, Mills College, The University of Richmond Museum, and Galleria Glance (Torino, Italy). Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, and a Jerome Foundation Grant. SLC, 2010-

BLS, SUNY-Purchase. MFA, Hunter College. MFA (forthcoming), Brown University. Shipped titles: Layoff (Tiltfactor Labs, New York), Earth and Beyond (MMORPG, Westwood Studios/Electronic Arts), Aidyn Chronicles (Nintendo 64, THQ). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway at The Brick Playhouse, La Mama Galleria, and Expanded Arts. Her video work has been featured in Digital Fringe, Melbourne, Australia, and on die Gesellschafter.de, Bonn, Germany. Currently the Electronic Writing Fellow at Brown University, where she is working on new forms of interactive narrative, she is also the Internet art and Web cinema reviewer for Furtherfield.org, an arts collective based in London. SLC, 2010—

BA, Bethel University. MFA, Yale University School of Art. Working in painting, sculpture, and video, he employs the tropes of repetition, accumulation, and wit to shape his social commentary. Through the appropriation and compression of multilayered symbols, he untangles the power of these symbols and illustrates how they function in various public spheres. He has co-organized several significant exhibitions, including: Intelligent Design at Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; Strand at New York Center for Art and Media Studies; and Pac Man at Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including African Fractals and Dark Matter at New York's Ronald Feldman Gallery, where he is represented. He has exhibited work in numerous group exhibitions at major institutions, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. SLC, 2010—

BSAD, MArch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sculptor and painter; one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, and Europe; work included in major private and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, High Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City); honorary member, Board of Directors, White Columns, New York; recipient of grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1994–

BFA, Howard University. Graduate, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. A creative technologist presently designing mobile experiences and interactive hardware, he is driven by the new modes of expression emerging from mobile and wireless technology. A professional photographer before coming to Sarah Lawrence College, his clients included W+K, Nike, ExxonMobil, BBDO, Deutsch, Walmart, Almay, Frito-Lay, Young & Rubicam, Chase Manhattan, Apple, Procter & Gamble, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, and Esquire. Over 13 years in the business, he moved from being a retoucher to shooting still life, beauty, portraiture, and fashion. SLC 2011—

BFA, School of Visual Arts (New York). MFA, Yale University. New York-based photographer/artist with solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and museums worldwide, including: Frank Elbaz Gallery, Elizabeth Leah Gallery, Monte Faria Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Monte Clark Gallery. Works represented in numerous permanent collections, including: The International Center of Photography (New York), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art (New York), and Whitney Museum of American Art. Guest lecturer at Columbia University, Columbia College of Art, University of California-Los Angeles, and numerous others. Her photos have been published widely and featured most notably in Art in Review, The New York Times, Vogue, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her photography is featured in numerous books and catalogues, including: Art Photography Now, Bright, Susan (Aperture Foundation, 2005), Old Joy, Jonathan Raymond (Artspace Books, 2004), and Justine Kurland: Spirit West, John Kelsey (Coromandel, 2002). SLC, 2011—

BA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. MFA, Columbia University. Award-winning writer, director, and producer. Festivals and awards include Best of Fest—Edinburgh International Film Festival; Filmmaker Magazine—Audience Choice Award; Scenario Award—Canadian International Film and Video Festival; second place, Best Short—Galway Film Fleadh; Best Comedy/Best of Night—Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival; BBC’s Best Short Film About the Environment—Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival; Opening night selection—Three Rivers Film Festival; Hong Kong International Jewish Film Festival; Irish Reels Film Festival; Seattle True Independent Film Festival; NewFilmmakers Screening Series; Hoboken International Film Festival; Miami Jewish Film Festival; Munich International Student Film Festival; Palm Beach International Jewish Film Festival; Pittsburgh Israeli Jewish Film Festival; Toronto Jewish Film Festival; Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. Finalist in Pipedream Screenplay Competition; third prize—Acclaim TV Writer Competition; second place—TalentScout TV Writing Competition; finalist—People’s Pilot Television Writing Contest; Milos Forman Award; finalist—Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Film Awards. Current feature film projects include screenwriter/director/producer, Strange Girls—Mdux Pictures, LLC. Screenwriter/director, Shoelaces. SLC, 2007—

BA, Westfield (MA) State College. MFA, MS in Art History, Pratt Institute. Attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in painting and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has taught at Princeton University, Pratt Institute, and New York University. Recent exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn; Martin Asbaek Projects in Copenhagen, Denmark; Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia; The Lab in Dublin, Ireland. His is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Methodist University, and New Museum of Contemporary Art. SLC 2010—

BFA, Alfred University. MFA, University of South Florida. Studied at Royal College of Art, London, and held Tamarind Master Printer fellowship; exhibited in many national and international shows; one-person exhibitions include the Newark Museum, Staempfli Gallery, and Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York. SLC, 1983–

BA, Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich and Keramisch Fachschule Bern. MFA, San Francisco Art Institute. Painter and sculptor; one-person shows nationwide and in Europe; works represented in private and museum collections; recipient of Schweizer Kunststipendium; awards from San Francisco Art Festival, Oakland Museum, and the National Endowment for the Arts. SLC, 1986–

MFA, Columbia University. Writer and associate producer of Steven Spielberg’s fantasy film, Hook, and received story credit for Madeline. Her first produced film was Once Around, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Uncredited work in order of the size of her contribution, as she sees it, includes Jurassic Park, Other Sister, Only You, Enchanted, and Polar Express. She has collaborated with many established directors on both produced and unproduced material, including Norman Jewison, Alfonso Cuaron, Alfonso Arau, Luis Mandoki, Sabiha Sumar, Garry Marshall, and Rob Reiner. Adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate Film School, an advisor for Sundance Institute, an instructor (summer, 2010) at la FEMIS in Paris, and an advisor (summer, 2011) at Maisha Film Lab, founded by Mira Nair; she will be advising emerging Rwandan writers in Kigali, Rwanda. Recently co-wrote a script with Sabiha Sumar, an award-winning Pakistani director and alumna of Sarah Lawrence College. The film, Rafina, was shot in October 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan, and will be completed in summer, 2011. Winged Boy, a story she rewrote for Gold Circle, is also in productiton. SLC, 2009—

BA, University of Illinois. MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Screenwriter, director. Wrote and directed two feature films, Maryam (2002) andLoveless(2011). Serves on the screenwriting faculty of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and of Hunter College. Awards include: Golden Reel Award for Best Film, The Tiburon International Film Festival, and Emerging Filmmaker Award, St. Louis International Film Festival. SLC, 2011—

BA, Queens College. MFA Yale University. One-person and group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery. Works represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recipient of grants and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, Camera Works, CAPS, Art Matters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Author of Time Frames: City Pictures and Auto Portraits. SLC, 1999–

BA, Boston University. MA, Emerson College (Boston). Postgraduate studies as a Revson Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, Graduate Film Division, and the Columbia University Digital Media Center. His two-part documentary series on the parallel lives of African American and black South African young people in post-apartheid South Africa and post-9/11 America was broadcast on South African Broadcasting Corporation TV (SABC) and PBS and screened at festivals in the United States, as well as internationally. Concurrent with his own work, he has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, City College, and Hunter College, all in New York City. He was awarded artist fellowships in film and video by the New York Foundation for the Arts and honored by the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame for his narrative short, Deft Changes. SLC, 2007—

BA, Salem College. MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Also studied at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently completing a certificate in documentary production and editing from New York University. Received multiple awards and grants for her work and exhibits, both nationally and internationally. Current studio orientation is video installation with elements of comic image painting and sculpture. For the past several years, studio work has included an application of Freudian theory to American culture and identity. SLC, 2007—

BA, Dartmouth College. Photographer/artist with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and a Prix de Rome. Author of American Prospects, On This Site, Stranger Passing, and four other books. SLC, 1985–

BA, Fairfield University. MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Postgraduate study: American Film Institute, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Screenwriter, producer, director. Recent awards, grants, festivals: Grand Prize, Nantucket Film Festival, Tony Cox Award in Screenwriting; Nantucket Screenwriters Colony; World Jewish Film Festival, Askelon, Israel; Tehran International Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival Shorts; Uppsala Sweden Film Festival; USA Film Festival; Washington (DC) Jewish Film Festival; Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival; Temecula Valley International Film Festival “Best of the Fest”; Portugal Film Festival Press Award; Fade In Magazine Award/Best Short Screenplay; Angelus Film Festival Triumph Award; Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award; Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award; New Line Cinema Filmmaker Development Award; Hamptons International Film Festival; Schomburg Cultural Grants. Raindance Pictures: projects developed for Columbia/Tristar/Sony, Lifetime, MTM Productions, Family Channel, FX, Alliance/ Atlantis, Capella Films, Turman-Foster Productions, James Manos Productions, FX, Avenue Pictures. SLC, 2003–

BFA, The Cooper Union. MFA, Yale University. Group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Yale School of Architecture, The Nerman Museum, and HDLU Croatia. Solo exhibitions at Galerie Alian Le Gaillard, South First Gallery, and Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Works represented in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum and The Nerman Museum. SLC, 2010—

BA, Brown University. MFA, University of California, San Diego. Work has been exhibited at venues such as The Kitchen, Foxy Production, X-initiative, Eyebeam, the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Edith Russ Haus, and the Western Front. SLC, 2012-

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Studied at University of London, School of Visual Arts. Executive producer/producer/writer. Credits include: Super Size Me; Anywhere, USA; Class Act; Convention; Google Me; Fiornes: The Rest I Make Up; Thundercats; Silverhawks; MTV's Real World. Awards include: Academy Award® nominee, Best Documentary; Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize, Dramatic Competition; Sundance Film Festival, Best Director, Documentary; Sarah Lawrence College Alumnae/i Citation of Achievement; TELLY® Award; Artivist Film Festival, Best Documentary; Rhode Island International Film Festival, First Place, Best Documentary; AURORA Award, Platinum Best in Show; Chicago International Film Festival, First Place; US International Film and Video Festival. Founder, Studio On Hudson production company. SLC, 2011—