Notable alumni

 

Nayland Blake (MFA 84) has been included in many exhibitions in museums around the world. He shows with Mathew Marks in New York.

 

Ross Bleckner (MFA 73) is a painter whose work has been shown extensively in the U.S. and in Europe. The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted a retrospective exhibition in 1995.

 

Barbara Bloom (BFA 72) has shown her installations at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum. She has also participated in Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale, where, in 1989, she won the Due Mille Prize for best artist under 40.

 

Ingrid Calame (MFA 96) shows with Karen Lovegrove in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York and Galerie Rolf Ricke in Cologne. Her paintings have been included in group shows throughout the U.S. and Europe. She participated in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

 

James Casebere (MFA 79) has shown his photographic work at the Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery in Los Angeles and the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. He has taken part in many survey shows, including the Whitney Biennial.

 

Sam Durant (MFA 91) has shown extensively at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Salzberger Kunstverein in Austria, the Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany, and L'Espace Culturel BBL in Brussels. He is represented by Blum & Poe in Los Angeles.

 

Eric Fischl (BFA 72) has shown his paintings with the Ed Thorpe and Mary Boone galleries in New York, and with Daniel Weinberg and Gagosian in Los Angeles. A retrospective of his work traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Whitney Museum in New York and the ICA in London.

 

Guillermo Gomez-Peña (BFA 81, MFA 83) was one of the founding members of the Border Arts Workshop in San Diego/Tijuana. His film Border Brujo won first prize in the National Latino Film and Video Festival in 1991. He also received a MacArthur Fellowship that same year.

 

Sharon Greytak (MFA 82) won several awards for her first feature film, Weirded Out and Blown Away. She continues to make films, the latest being Losing It, an international documentary about cultural perceptions of physical disability. This project was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Soros Documentary Fund and CEC International.

 

Steven Hull (BFA 95, MFA 97) has had solo shows at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie Rolf Ricke in Cologne. His latest curatorial project, Song Poems, featured a three-CD catalogue of original songs and an exhibition of videos, album art and posters.

 

Mike Kelley (MFA 78) has been included in many international surveys, including Documenta, the Carnegie International and Sonsbeek. A mid-career survey was mounted by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and traveled across the U.S.

 

Rachel Lachowicz (BFA 88) has participated in many international shows at venues such as the Museum of Installation in London, Galeria Luis Serpa in Lisbon and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in France.

 

Dave Muller (MFA 93) established Three Day Weekend in 1994 in downtown Los Angeles, and has taken the concept to Houston, Vienna, Tokyo, Malmö and London. The UCLA Hammer Musuem in Los Angeles is staging an exhibition of Muller's work in the fall of 2002.

 

Matt Mullican (BFA 74) has shown his work in galleries and museums around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has also been included in many international surveys such as Documenta, the Tyne International and
Seville '92.

 

Rubén Ortiz-Torres (MFA 92) has recently participated in the group exhibitions Ultrabaroque at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in San Diego and Made in California at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has shown extensively in the U.S. and abroad and his films and videos have been included in numerous international festivals.

 

Tony Oursler (BFA 79) has exhibited at Documenta X, the Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, the Lisson Gallery in London and Metro Pictures in New York. A mid-career survey of his work was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2000.

 

Laura Owens (MFA 94) has shown her paintings nationally and internationally at galleries such as Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, Rosamund Felsen and ACME in Los Angeles, Sadie Coles HQ in London, Studio Guenzani in Milan and Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne. Her work was included in the Carnegie International in 1999.

 

Lari Pittman (BFA 74, MFA 76) has been the subject of a major mid-career survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts. His work is frequently exhibited at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and Jay Gorney Modern Art in New York.

 

Monique Prieto (BFA 92, MFA 94) shows her paintings at ACME in Los Angeles and Pat Hearn Gallery in New York. She received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1998.

 

Stephen Prina (MFA 80) is a Guggenheim Fellow and has shown extensively in Europe and the U.S. He has been included in group shows such as A Forest of Signs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and surveys such as the Carnegie International and the Whitney Biennial.

 

David Salle (BFA 73, MFA 75) was included in Documenta VII, Zeitgeist, the Bienales in Venice, Paris and Sao Paulo and many other international surveys during the 1980s. A survey of his work was organized by the ICA in Philadelphia in 1986 and traveled in the U.S. In 1999, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam mounted a retrospective of work and the show traveled in Europe. His first feature film, Search and Destroy, was produced by Martin Scorsese in 1995.

 

Program in Graphic Design

 

Sean Adams (BFA 86) and Noreen Morioka (BFA 88) founded the strategy and communications firm AdamsMorioka in 1993. Both have been named to I.D. magazine's "ID40" list of influential designers, and the Los Angeles Times described them as a "major influence on popular culture at the end of the century." The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition of their work in 2000.

 

Dave Bravenec (MFA 95) is the creative director of Kick Media, a Web-broadband studio in Culver City, California. He has developed projects for clients such as House of Blues New Media, Inscape, Tool International, Sony, NBC and Fox Television. His design work has been featured in Web and print publications such as Page Layout, Cool Sites, Shift-Japan, Digitalthread, Alphabook and Sabre.

 

Barry Deck (MFA 89) creates design for print and television from his New York City studio. Atlantic Records, Nickelodeon and Details magazine are among his clients. His typeface designs include the ubiquitous Template Gothic and are distributed internationally by Emigre Graphics and Thirst Type.

 

Jens Gehlhaar (MFA 97) teaches upper-level typography and dynamic typography at Art Center College of Design. He has been an art director and graphic designer at ReVerb, Wieden + Kennedy, Fuel-Razorfish and Imaginary Forces. He has won awards from the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club and the Broadcast Designers Association.

 

Barbara Glauber (MFA 90) works out of her design studio, Heavy Meta, in New York. Her projects include music packaging and art catalogues. She teaches at Yale University and recently chaired the American Center for Design's annual 100 Show.

 

Sibylle Hagman (MFA 96) is art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. Her typeface family Cholla was released by Emigre in 1999 and received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club.

 

Somi Kim (MFA 89) and Lisa Nugent (MFA 89) are partners in ReVerb, a leading creative agency in Los Angeles. Kim, Nugent and third partner Susan Parr founded the company in 1991. James W. Moore (BFA 93) is one of ReVerb's core team members.

 

Deborah Littlejohn (MFA 94) teaches time-based design media at Minneapolis College of Art and Design while maintaining her own studio. Previously, Littlejohn was senior designer at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 1999 she co-curated the new media exhibition Chew On It: New Genre Hybrid Language at Western Carolina University. The exhibit catalogue is published by Émigré Books.

 

Kevin Lyons (MFA 96) is an art director for Urban Outfitters Inc., and was named as one of I.D. magazine's Forty Under Thirty. He has also worked for Nike, Stussy, Girl Skateboards, Tokion and SSUR, and was responsible for the design of the Four Star line of clothing.

 

Geoff McFetridge (MFA 95) runs Champion Graphics and skirts the borders between art, design and illustration. Recent work includes film titles for The Virgin Suicides and Zero Effect; broadcast graphics for MTV, Freaks and Geeks and Wieden + Kennedy; and art shows in Los Angeles, Seattle and Paris.

 

Kali Nikitas (MFA 90) is the founder of Graphic Design for Love (+$). She curated two international exhibitions: And She Told 2 Friends: An International Exhibition of Graphic Design by Women in Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit; and Soul Design in Minneapolis and Oslo, Norway.

 

Program in Photography and Media

 

Julie Becker (BFA 94, MFA 96) was selected as one of six young artists to show work in Universalis, a special exhibition that was part of the 1996 Bienal de São Paulo. She has exhibited at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and is represented by Greene Naftali in New York.

 

Miles Coolidge (MFA 92) has exhibited his photographic works at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He shows regularly with ACME in Los Angeles and Casey Kaplan in New York.

 

Lyle Ashton Harris (MFA 90) has exhibited worldwide at such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland; Centro de Arte Euroamericano in Caracas, Venezuela; and the 2000 Kwangju Biennale in South Korea. He also received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2000.

 

Darcy Huebler (BFA 79, MFA 83) has been making abstract works for more than ten years. She has shown her paintings at the Curt Marcus Gallery in New York, ACME in Los Angeles and the University of North Texas.

 

Robert Glenn Ketchum (MFA 73) has served as curator of photography for the National Park Foundation in Washington, DC. His photographs have been exhibited around the country, and he has published four books on the natural environment.

 

Liz Larner (BFA 85) recently had a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has showed her work internationally at venues such as the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland and the MAK Center in Vienna. Larner is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Smithsonian's Lucelia Artist Award.

 

Daniel Martinez (BFA 79) has been involved with community-based artmaking in Los Angeles, working with organizations like SPARC, LACE and Interpol. His work has been included in various surveys, among them the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale.

 

Catherine Opie (MFA 88) has shown her photographs at such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

 

Carrie Mae Weems (BFA 81) has investigated issues of identity and history through a body of photo/text works. She has shown extensively in Europe and the U.S., at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center and J. Paul Getty Museum. She received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 1992 and the Alpert Award in the Arts in 1996.

 

James Welling (BFA 72, MFA 74) recently had a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He has shown his photographs and paintings at Metro Pictures and Jay Gorney Modern Art in New York, as well as in galleries and museums in Europe. He has been included in many international surveys, including Documenta, and now teaches in the Art Department at UCLA.