Alan Berliner
Visiting Critic

Alan Berliner has completed over 14 films in the last 25 years and also has worked extensively on installations using video imagery. His recent film work addresses issues of family and history, using unexpected sound/image juxtapositions to reveal searingly powerful insights on how identities are tempered and shaped by our sense of the past. His films have been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and the Jerusalem Film Festival. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1993) and has received New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant seven times. His installation work has been shown at the Tribeca 148 Gallery (NYC), the Miami Art Museum and the International Center for Photography in NYC.

Lynne Cohen
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Ms. Cohen studied at Slade School of Art, University of London, Eastern Michigan University, and The University of Michigan. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally in a large number of shows, including solo exhibitions at International Center of Photography, New York; Galerie Nouvel Observateur, Paris; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University; Brown University; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Art Gallery of Windsor; P.P.O.W., New York; and Interim Art, London. Cohen has won several awards, grants, and fellowships and has taught as a visiting artist at many of the major universities and art institutes around the world.
http://www.lynne-cohen.com/

T.J. Demos
Visiting Critic

T.J. Demos is a critic and a lecturer in the Department of Art History,
University College London. A member of Art Journal’s editorial board, he writes widely on modern and contemporary art. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), his essays have appeared in international journals such as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. He is currently at work on a new book, provisionally titled Migrations: Contemporary Art and Globalization.

John Divola
Visiting Critic

Mr. Divola searches the landscape "looking for evidence of existential desire." Since 1975 his photographs have been exhibited in museums around the world and he has won many awards including four Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
http://www.divola.com

Jeanne Dunning
Visiting Critic

Ms. Dunning's controversial photographs and videos challenge traditional ideas of gender, identity, and the body. Since 1986 her work has been exhibited in museums around the world and feature in many publications.
http://www.feigencontemporary.com

Kevin Everson
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Kevin Everson's films are performative explorations into African American culture. Since 1995, he has created eight movies, including “Avenues”, “Second Shift,” and “Adult Material”; often these are created in conjunction with visual art installations or paintings. Everson's work has been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, London’s International Centre of the Arts, and the South by Southwest Film Festival. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. His visual art has been exhibited at the Whitney, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and throughout Europe.

Joan Fontcuberta
Visiting Critic

Spanish visual artist and theoretician Joan Fontcuberta produces photography that challenges the viewer's perceptions about the inherent objectivity of photography. In "Fauna," recently exhibited in Toronto, Fontcuberta elaborately forged a hidden and fictional world of wildlife. By exhibiting his work in a scientific manner, he forces the viewer to question the authenticity of photography. Fontcuberta has produced a dozen photo-related publications and his work has been collected by many of the major museums of the world. http://www.nexusgeografics.com/sid/font/bin/Fotomontajes/Cast/GImaxusMisc.htm

Anna Gaskell
Visiting Critic

Anna Gaskell has said that her work is more influenced by film and painting than by the conventions of photography. Indeed, Gaskell's working method is more akin to that of an astute movie director than to a camera-wielding photographer. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of literary and cinematic sources, her works are made in series that form what she calls "elliptical narratives." The subject matter she photographs for these "narratives" is staged and controlled, including the selection of costuming, the lighting, camera angles, and the exaggerated cropping. The results are vaguely disturbing, leaving one to question just exactly what is happening in these images. Gaskell’s work has been exhibited and published internationally.

Gordy Habb
Visiting Lecturer

Gordy Haab is a professional composer of award winning
feature films. He has scored or co-scored over 40 films including “The Da Vinci Code.” Also hecomposes, records, and produces string-quartet-based rock tribute albums for CMH records and Big Band music for Increase Music Publishing. He is the founding member and composer for the Los Angeles based music production company Transplant Media, a video game audio content provider, and is co President/Founder of Knell/Haab Productions.
http://www.gordyhaab.com

Su Friedrich
Visiting Critic

Su Friedrich began filmmaking in 1978 and has produced and directed eighteen 16mm films and videos, including From the Ground Up (2007), Seeing Red (2005),The Head of a Pin (2004), The Odds of Recovery (2002), Hide and Seek (1996), Rules of the Road (1993), First Comes Love (1991), Sink or Swim (1990), Damned If You Don't (1987), The Ties That Bind (1984), and Gently Down the Stream (1981). Her films have won many awards, including the Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival and Outstanding Documentary at Outfest. Friedrich has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations as well as numerous grants from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA and ITVS, and in 1995 she received the Cal Arts/Alpert Award. Retrospectives of her work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Stadtkino in Vienna, the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver and the National Film Theater in London, among others. Friedrich is the writer, cinematographer, director and editor of all her films, with the exception of Hide and Seek, which was co-written by Cathy Quinlan and shot by Jim Denault. Her work is screened and distributed widely throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She teaches film & video production at Princeton University. Her DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films.

Kate Gilmore
Visiting Critic

In her video performances, Kate Gilmore creates uncomfortable situations for herself and the viewer. These are real predicaments—sometimes painful and even potentially dangerous—but ones that she has created for herself. Gilmore’s video works force you to squirm in a strange empathetic reaction to her predicaments

Kate Gilmore’s work has been exhibited at PS1 “Greater New York 2005,” The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Haifa Museum of Art, and a two-person exhibition at the CAC, Cincinnati and in a group show at Mary Boone Gallery, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.

Gilmore is the recipient of the following awards: Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (2007-2008), Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, New York, New York, 2006/2007, Art Omi Residency Award, Ghent, New York (2007), Visiting Scholar Award, New York University, New York, New York, 2006, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, New York, New York 2005-2006

Anthony Goicolea
Visiting Critic

Anthony Goicolea obtained a BA in Art History and a BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia and received his MFA from Pratt. He was accepted into the “AIM” program at the Bronx Museum of Art and has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, the 2005 BMW Photo Paris Award and the 2006 CINTAS Fellowship.

Goicolea lives and works in New York and exhibits in the US and overseas. Goicolea’s work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, The Guggenheim, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, The ASU Museum of Art, The Helmond and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, The Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla in Leon, Spain, The Yale University Collection and 21C Museum in Kentucky.

Twin Palms press has published two books of Goicolea’s work & a collection of videos.

Andy Grundberg
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Andy Grundberg is a critic, curator, and educator who has written about photography for more than 25 years. His writings for the New York Times and other publications are collected in the book Crisis of the Real (Aperture). Other books by Grundberg include Mike and Doug Starn, Alexey Brodovitch, and The Land Through a Lens, as well as essays for the books Tina Barney: Theater of Manners, American Prospects by Joel Sternfeld, and the catalog raisonné of Jim Dine's photographs. He organized the exhibition In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, which opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2001 and is now on national tour.

Charles Hagen
Visiting Critic

Mr. Hagen is a distinguished critic, curator, photographer, videographer, and Professor at the University of Connecticut and Bard College.

Todd Hido
Visiting Critic
Todd Hido is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has been featured in ArtForum, The New York Times and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, NYC, the San Francisco Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum and others. The editions of his books of photographs, Househunting and Outskirts, published 2001 and 2002 respectively, have both sold out.

Hido makes color photographs using available light and long exposures. His subjects are contemporary quotidian suburbia, empty of people and otherworldly, suggestive of abandonment and isolation.

Jutine Kurland
Visiting Critic

Justine Kurland is a fine art photographer, based in New York. She graduated from Yale University in 1998 with a Master of Fine Arts degree, after studying with Gregory Crewdson and Philip Lorca di Corcia. Kurland first gained public notice with her work in the group show Another Girl, Another Planet (1999), which displayed her large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half-sprites, half juvenile delinquents.

As landscapes she chose the 'secret places' of late childhood; wasteland on the edges of suburbia, 'owned' only by a feral nature and unsupervised children. Her limited-edition book Spirit West (2000) featured similar work on a more ambitious scale.

In her show Community, Skyblue (2002), Kurland turned to documenting the utopian communes of Virginia and California, highlighting the unworldly aspirations of the communards by having them appear naked in her pictures and showing them as only distant figures in their landscape. In 2003 she had European solo shows Golden Dawn (London) and Welcome Home (Vienna), based around these series of commune images.

Her latest book, Old Joy (2004) turns to men. She shows visionaries trekking naked into the wilderness, where they undergo spiritual experiences. In her 2004 show Songs of Experience she explored medieval and Biblical imagery. In 2005 she had a solo show in Japan.

Lana Lin
Visiting Critic

Lana Lin is a New York-based artist whose films and videos
center on identity formation and the inadequacies of translating the complexities of language, culture, and politics into representation. Informed by experimental and documentary film, and extending her practice to digital media, installation, and on-line projects, Lin investigates the intricate ways in which national and cultural subjectivity is mediated, narrated, and defined.

Lin’s work has shown internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, China Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, the Swiss Institute, New York, and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, as well as the Festival de Femmes, Creteil, France and the London Film Festival, England, among others. Also her work has been supported by numerous awards, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Since 2001 she has been working collaboratively as a member of the artist team ‘Lin+Lam.

Duane Michals
Visiting Critic

Mr. Michals, one of the foremost artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, is considered by some to be the father of post-modern photography. His photographs, which are staged narratives that include text, have been exhibited internationally in countless museum shows and several books of his work have been published.
http://www.pdngallery.com/legends3/michals/

Claude Miller
Visiting Lecturer

Claude Miller is one of France's most important film directors and producers. Between 1968 and 1975 he was a director of production of most of the films of François Truffaut. Miller's 1981 film "Police Custody" won four César Awards. His film "Small Lili" was nominated for the Gold Palm at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Miller conducted a Master’s Class during the VCU French Film Festival.
http://www.biosstars.com/c/claudemiller.htm

William Pope.L
Visiting Critic

William Pope.L has over 25 years of work in all media, including performance, installation, and sculpture. Citing social conundrum as the engine that drives his work, Pope.L addresses contemporary issues such as class, consumerism, and culturally embedded racism with dark humor and biting critique. His installations use unconventional materials, including peanut butter, mayonnaise, and Pop Tarts to provoke a closer examination of the "stuff" of everyday life and to raise questions about art as a commodity. Notorious for his performances, including the digestion and regurgitation of the Wall Street Journal and crawling in gutters throughout the world wearing a business suit, Pope.L investigates violent and visceral propositions for the body. According to the artist's dictum "Race Becomes You", his own body becomes the site on which to play out, literalize and interrogate stereotypes. Pope.L has won many major grants and fellowships.

Peter Rose
Visiting Critic

Mr. Rose's works in film, video, installation, and performance have been extensively shown internationally at museum venues, including shows at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou. In their exploration of perception, language, time, and mythos, Rose's works lead to new forms of linguistic structure and takes us on peculiar journeys that modulate between the sublime and the ridiculous.
http://www.inliquid.com/design/multimed/rose/rose.shtml

Jon Rubin
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Jon Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the social
dynamic of public spaces and the lives of ordinary individuals. His solo and collaborative projects include creating a game show for absurdist ideas, running a gallery that only presents exhibitions on people who live in its neighborhood, opening a fake store in an indoor shopping mall, launching a web-based fan club to tell the story of an obscure weightlifter, running his own clandestine restaurant, creating a show with and about a 10 year old boy, broadcasting an office's telephone conversations through a talking piano, running a neighborhood truck that gives away free homemade goods and services, producing a cable access variety show at a senior center, and most recently developing his own free experimental art school.

He has exhibited video, drawings, installations and public projects internationally including at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, The Rooseum, Sweden, The de Young Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany, Nemo Film Festival, Paris, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Albany Museum of Art, New York, The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, as well as in backyards, living rooms, and street corners. He has received numerous national public art commissions, fellowships, residencies and awards.

Gary Schneider
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Mr. Schneider earned a BFA from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York City. His work has been reviewed or featured in publications such as Art Forum, Art on Paper, The New York Times, Le Temps, and Art in America. Schneider has shown internationally in many solo and group shows, including exhibitions at the Musee de l'Elysee Lausanne in Switzerland, Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago, PPOW Gallery in New York City, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, and the International Center of Photography in New York City. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery and the International Center of Photography. In Fall 2005 Aperture Books published a third monograph on his work. He also is an adjunct professor at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.

Michele Smith
Visiting Critic

Ms Smith is a filmmaker who splices found film footage from commercial, promotional, and educational films into collages of moving pictures. Her films have been featured in many festivals and she is the recipient of several major awards.
http://www.wovenfilms.com/

Jerry Spagnoli
Visiting Lecturer

Mr. Spagnoli is a photo artist who has been instrumental in reintroducing antique photographic processes, like the daguerreotype, into contemporary art. His work has been exhibited and published widely.
http://www.houkgallery.com/spagnoli/spagnoli1.html

Christopher Sperandio
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Mr. Sperandio earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA in Printmaking from West Virginia University. He has taught as a visiting artist at The School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, University of Tennessee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Princeton University, and was Creator and Executive Producer of pilots at MTV, New York. Sperandio's installations and conceptual art projects have been exhibited and undertaken internationally, including solo shows and projects at the Museum of Modern Art; PS1; Manchester Art Gallery, England; Aarhus Kuntsmuseum, Denmark; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Seattle Art Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as several unusual venues like hospitals and a chocolate factory. In addition he has created several television projects, the most recent of which is a reality show set in New York called ARTSTAR. Also he has published comic books as part of the art team Kartoon Kings.com.

Charles Stainback
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Mr. Stainback received a MMI in Museum Management from the University of California, Berkeley, an MFA in Photographic Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has served a Director of SITE Santa Fe, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, International Center of Photography, the Burden Gallery at the Aperture Foundation, and the Visual Studies Workshop. Stainback has curated many major exhibitions, is the author of several essays, book introductions and forwards, and was Professor of Liberal Studies at Skidmore College.

Elisabeth Subrin
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Ms. Subrin earned a BFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has presented her films extensively in the United States and abroad, including screenings at the New York Film Festival, The Whitney Biennial, American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Guggenheim Museum, Film Forum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Vienna International Film Festival, The Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University, The Northwest Film Center, The Film Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Subrin has received many awards, grants and fellowships including those from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Creative Capital Foundation, The Andrea Frank Foundation, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Yaddo and MacDowell Foundations, The Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Center for New Television. She is a 2004-05 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and has taught filmmaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amherst College, New York University's Center for Media, Culture and History, Harvard, and Cooper Union.

Larry Sultan
Visiting Critic

Larry Sultan examines the strange beauty and ambiguity of the photographic narrative. His images fixate on mundane details, domestic scenes, and human exchanges, illuminating the poignancy of such seemingly banal subjects. In 1998, after being commissioned by Maxim Magazine to photograph for an editorial piece entitled "A Day in the Life of a Porn Set.” Sultan saw this as the perfect extension to his work in suburbia. The resulting large- scale photographs entitled The Valley have been published as a monograph. Larry Sultan’s work has been exhibited in countless museums and galleries including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in addition to many other awards. Sultan currently lives in Greenbrae, Ca. and teaches at the California College of Arts and Crafts.

Bertrand Tavernier
Visiting Lecturer

Bertrand Tavernier is considered to be France’s greatest living director. He has directed over 50 feature length films and has won many prestigious awards, including five Cesar Awards, four Berlin Film Festival awards, a Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Prix Louis Delluc. Tavernier conducted a Master’s Class during the VCU French Film Festival.

Arthur Tress
Visiting Critic

Mr. Tress is one of the most creative and innovative photo artists alive. For thirty years his staged photographs have been exhibited internationally in solo museum and gallery shows and several influential books of his work have been published. Often he uses his own sculptural pieces to create photographs.
http://www.arthurtress.com/