received his MFA in sculpture from SFAI and his BFA from Pratt Institute. His sculptures are primarily crafted from steel and incorporate various other materials to investigate the possibilities of the spirit and nature of human existence within a postindustrial world. He has exhibited locally at Root Division in San Francisco and Johannson’s Projects in Oakland. He received a Murphy and Cadogan Fine Art Fellowship Award from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2006.
is chair of SFAI’s Post-Baccalaureate Program and teaches Critical Studies and Urban Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies as well as New Genres and Film in the School of Studio Practice. She holds an MFA from SFAI and a JD from the UC Berkeley. She is a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and writer who explores the contexts, language, and scope of portraying and mirroring back a subject. She received a 1999 Artadia award and was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, SFMOMA, the Kitchen Gallery in New York City, the 2006 and 2008 ZeroOne San Jose New Media Biennials, and Bay Area Now 2 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She writes a column, “Art and Culture Fix,” for the online version of the
and is on the San Francisco Arts Commission.
is a video artist and musician who lives and works in San Francisco. Through a wide range of customized analog and digital tools, his sound/image works and performances explore the inherent plasticity of the image as digital bit and analog raster beam. He has performed and exhibited at galleries and film festivals such as the New York Underground Film Festival, Center For Contemporary Art Glasgow, The Wattis Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Aurora Picture Show, the Stone, and Queens Nails Annex.
, a longtime member of the Joe Goode Performance Group, has performed and taught extensively throughout the United States, and internationally in Brazil, Egypt, and Jordan. Her work explores the physicality of words and the relationship of the moving body to the voice.
is a San Francisco–based artist who works primarily with oils. He completed his BFA in Painting and Art History at Queen’s University in 2005. He recently received his MFA from SFAI, where he was the recipient of the 2007 Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting award. He has had solo and group exhibitions in Seattle, Toronto, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.
is an associate producer and visual artist. She received an MFA from SFAI and a BFA with honors in Painting from Queen’s University in Canada. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron in Ottawa (Canada), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston (Canada), and, in San Francisco, the Lab and Art Engine Gallery. She was awarded the Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting Award at SFAI and the Helen Nininger Memorial Scholarship in Fine Art, a residency at Red Ink Studios in San Francisco. Her work has been published in
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produces large scale works on paper that combine various printmaking techniques with painting and drawing. Fritz received her BFA in painting from SFAI in 2004 where she was the recipient of the Spring Show Award and an MFA in painting from SFAI in 2008. Her work was recently exhibited in Vernissage at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Fritz completed an Artist-in-Residence at the KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, CA in 2009 and will be featured in the spring 2010 edition of
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Rives Granade is a San Francisco–based artist who has exhibited his work internationally. His practice is multidisciplinary and can take the form of video, sculpture, photography, film, and painting. His work has recently been shown in San Francisco at Steven Wolf Fine Arts and in Los Angeles at Marine Contemporary. His paintings and videos are in the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art and numerous private collections. Granade received his MFA from SFAI in 2008.
Glenn Hirsch received an MFA from SFAI. He teaches as adjunct faculty at JFK University’s MFA program, as an instructor in UC Berkeley’s Extension program, and serves as an adviser/mentor for the Art Institute of Boston’s MFA program. He has exhibited widely in the US over the last twenty years, including a retrospective of his work at Stanford Art Spaces, three recent solo shows in California, and a solo show at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Carrie Hott is a painter who incorporates drawing and mixed media into her work. She completed her BFA in Painting at Arizona State University in 2003 and received her MFA from SFAI in 2007, where she was a finalist for the MFA studio award. Hott has completed artist residencies at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and Artstation in Rostock (Germany). She has exhibited in Germany, the UK, Arizona, and, most recently, in San Francisco, at Southern Exposure, the Lab, and SOAP Gallery. In addition to co-directing the Royal NoneSuch Gallery, and alternative art and community event space in Oakland, Hott currently works at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and has taught in the community education and undergraduate departments at SFAI.
Katie Humphries received her BA in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking from Portland State University and her MFA in Painting from SFAI. She has exhibited her paintings in Portland, San Francisco, and New York, and has worked as an artist’s advisor on oil painting materials and techniques for Gamblin Artist’s Colors Company. In her recent work she explores fashion, nostalgia, and anxiety.
Emmanuelle Namont
Kouznetsov is a conceptual artist who lives and works in San Francisco. After
developing her career as a commercial photographer, she graduated from SFAI in
2008. Her work broadens the concepts of portraiture and questions modern-day behavior,
in particular, our oblivious subservience to technology and to the power of the
machine as well as the crude state of our closest relationships.
Carl Martin has been in the picture-framing business for fifteen years. He owns and operates the Studio Shop, a picture-framing and art gallery in the Bay Area.
Jackson Patterson received an MFA from SFAI in 2009. He has been exhibiting his photographs in Pennsylvania, Oregon, California, and Arizona since 2000. Recent exhibitions include such venues as the Morris Graves Museum of Art, the Pendleton Art Center, and the Togonon Gallery. His work is held in various private collections and in the Paul Sack Collection at SFMOMA. Patterson currently resides and works in San Francisco.
Mel Prest received an MFA from Mills College and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was principally a figurative painter before she turned to abstraction. Recent exhibitions include such venues as the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Bus-Dori in Tokyo, Pharmaka in Los Angeles, and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Prest has been featured in
Artweek,
Art Papers, the
San Francisco Chronicle, and
New American Painting. She lives and works in San Francisco, where she exhibits with Gregory Lind Gallery.
Jennifer Rarick received an MFA from SFAI in 2008. She uses sound and video to explore the relationship between storytelling, memory, and the physicality of spaces. She has exhibited widely and often works in collaborations, most recently with the audio action collaborative group Ultra Red. She was an artist-in-residence at the Montana Artists Refuge in 2008, where she created abstract sound compositions. Rarick works in audio production and postproduction for independent film projects while pursuing her own studio practice.
Amy Rathbone received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MFA from SFAI in 2001. She is a Bay Area artist whose mediums are paper and site-specific installation. She has exhibited widely and is locally represented by Gregory Lind Gallery.
Meghann Riepenhoff earned her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has lectured at San Francisco Photo Alliance, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and CCA and has hosted workshops on the value of photography for at-risk youth. She has been in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Rayko Photo Center. Recent solo exhibitions include such venues as the Rayko Photo Center and El Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro (Mexico). In addition, Riepenhoff was included in the Fay Gold Selects juried exhibition with the Atlanta Photography Group. She is the studio assistant and bookbinder for Michael Light Studios and teaches at SFAI.
Doran Rivera creates multilayered artworks that incorporate elements of collage, drawing, digital prints, painting, and projections. Rivera received a BA in art history and a second BA in visual art from Bowdoin College in 2008. He was the recipient of the Surdna Fellowship in 2007 and has exhibited his work in Maine and California. In spring 2009, Rivera provided a lecture at SFAI entitled "Hegemony in Creative Practice: African American Artists from Reconstruction to Civil Rights." He currently works as the Assistant Director for Admissions at SFAI and resides in San Francisco.
Aaron Rosenstreich received his BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, School of Art and Design in 2003 and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Rosenstreich works almost exclusively with black and white photography in a wide range of historic processes. Using various historic and modern photographic technologies as descriptive tools, Rosenstreich seeks to record evidence of creation and destruction cycles within the urban landscape. His work has been exhibited in California, New York, Spain and Vermont, and most recently at Hatch Gallery in Oakland, and The Lab in San Francisco, CA. Rosenstreich lives and works in San Francisco.
Megann Sept is the Coordinator of Career Resources at SFAI and works daily with students on their writing as it relates to their professional practice and art making. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College where she taught in the first-year writing program and facilitated a creative-writing living-learning community. Her creative work has appeared in
Pindeldyboz,
Fringe Fiction, and
Lost Magazine, and her story “The Good Fisherman” was selected as a Notable Story in storySouth’s Million Writers Award. She is currently at work on her first book.
Josh Smith received a BFA in Photography from Missouri State University and an MFA in Photography from SFAI in 2007. Recent venues at which he has exhibited include the Academy Salon in Regensberg (Germany), San Francisco’s City Hall, and the 2008 New York Photo Festival. In 2007, Smith was selected to receive the John Collier Jr. Photography Award and, in 2005, the Paul Sack Photography Award. He currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sarah Stolar received an MFA in New Genres from SFAI and a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She has completed residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, as well as at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana (Cuba), and has studied at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence (Italy). Venues at which she has exhibited include the 53rd Venice Biennale, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Los Angeles Art Association, and the Reel Venus International Film Festival in New York City. Stolar is a painter, a multimedia artist, and a performer.
Heather Van Winckle received an MFA from SFAI in 2009. She is a sculptor whose work examines the production of cultural normativity. Citing such influences as self-help books and personal experiences on public transportation, her research often develops into site-specific installations. She has exhibited in Canada and the United States.
Sadie Wilcox received a BA at Wesleyan University and an MFA from the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her artwork has been shown at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Arts in Cambridge, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and the Finnish National Museum in Helsinki. Her work has been published in
TDR: The Drama Review and
About Performance #8. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.