Degrees and Enrollment

Master of Fine Arts Degrees Conferred, 2018

  • Camille Alice Altay III, Painting/Printmaking
  • Nilas Kaalund Andersen, Graphic Design
  • Felipe De Jesús Baeza, Painting/Printmaking
  • Natalie Marie Ball, Painting/Printmaking
  • Sula Fay Bermudez-Silverman, Sculpture
  • Guillaume Pierre Louis Edouard Boucher, Graphic Design
  • Dannielle Nicole Bowman, Photography
  • Ernest Arthur Bryant III, Painting/Printmaking
  • Jennifer Helene Calivas, Photography
  • Shikeith Cathey, Sculpture
  • Penn Chan, Photography
  • Ingrid Chuen-Neng Chen, Graphic Design
  • Lauren Kyung-Mee Chun, Painting/Printmaking
  • Brian Dario, Sculpture
  • Kenturah Davis, Painting/Printmaking
  • Hicham Samir Faraj, Graphic Design
  • Jillian Germaine Freyer, Photography
  • Nicholas Erik Gaby, Sculpture
  • Muxi Gao, Graphic Design
  • Daniel Joseph Ginsburg, Painting/Printmaking
  • Kathryn Elizabeth Harrison, Photography
  • Pianpian He, Graphic Design
  • Adam Robert Higgins, Painting/Printmaking
  • Clare Kambhu, Painting/Printmaking
  • Kathryn Brett Kerr, Painting/Printmaking
  • Byungjo Kim, Graphic Design
  • Wyatt Lasky, Painting/Printmaking
  • Lacey Lennon, Photography
  • Leslie Martinez, Painting/Printmaking
  • Justine Melford-Colegate, Sculpture
  • Alexandria Lyn Mento, Painting/Printmaking
  • Lucas Libera Moore, Photography
  • Kent Isaac O’Connor, Painting/Printmaking
  • Ian Page, Sculpture
  • Johnathan Robert Payne, Painting/Printmaking
  • Estefania Puerta Grisales, Painting/Printmaking
  • Evelyn Louise Pustka, Photography
  • Nathan Jeffrey Barros da Costa Pyper, Graphic Design
  • Antonia Lu-yi Robins Kuo, Painting/Printmaking
  • Raúl José Romero, Sculpture
  • Julia Ann Frances Rooney, Painting/Printmaking
  • Yo-E Ryou, Graphic Design
  • Ilana Savdie, Painting/Printmaking
  • Hrefna Sigurðardóttir, Graphic Design
  • Youngeun Sohn, Graphic Design
  • Vaughn Spann, Painting/Printmaking
  • Katelyn Merry Spinelli, Graphic Design
  • William Scott Stewart, Sculpture
  • Maya Grace Strauss, Painting/Printmaking
  • Daniel James Swindel, Photography
  • Dustin Tong, Graphic Design
  • Emma Beatrice Gambier Webster, Painting/Printmaking
  • Bryce Sutton Wilner, Graphic Design
  • Chase Alexander Wilson, Painting/Printmaking
  • Matthew Taylor Wolff, Graphic Design
  • John Drue Scott Worrell, Sculpture
  • Valentina Maria Zamfirescu, Sculpture
  • Christine Fae Zavesky, Graphic Design
  • Ziwei Zhang, Graphic Design

Enrollment, 2018–2019

Graphic Design

  • Tania Alvarez Zaldivar (B.F.A. Concordia Univ. [Canada] 2010), Mexico City, Mexico
  • Herdimas Anggara (B.Sc. Inst. Teknologi Bandung 2012), Dki Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Kyla Arsadjaja (B.A. La Salle Coll. of Arts [Singapore] 2015), Java, Indonesia
  • Micah Barrett (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2012), Providence, R.I.
  • Milo Bonacci (B.A. Syracuse Univ. 2006), Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Severin Bunse (B.A. Gerrit Rietveld Acad. [The Netherlands] 2014), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Maria Candanoza Hurtado (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Evan Chang (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2016), San Francisco, Calif.
  • Hyungseuk Cho (B.F.A. Seoul National Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2012, M.F.A. 2015), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Dho Yee Chung (B.F.A. Fashion Inst. of Technology 2013), Changwon-Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
  • Simone Cutri (B.A. ISIA Urbino [Italy] 2015), Conselice, Italy
  • Jessica Flemming (B.F.A. San Francisco Art Inst. 2012), Valencia, Calif.
  • Emma Gregoline (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2015), Venice, Calif.
  • Jinu Hong (B.Arch. Korea Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2017), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Zhiyan Huang (B.F.A. Parsons School of Design 2017), New York, N.Y.
  • Laura Huaranga (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Cindy Hwang (B.A. Yale Univ. 2015), Phoenix, Ariz.
  • Dawoon Jeon (B.F.A. Ewha Womans Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2016), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Harin Jung (B.A. Yeungnam Univ. 2014), Daegu, Republic of Korea
  • Jeong Woo Kim (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2013), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Minhwan Kim (B.S. Korea Inst. of Science and Technology 2015), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Willis Kingery (B.A. Hastings Coll. 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • David Knowles (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Zhongkai Li (B.F.A. Central Acad. of Fine Arts [China] 2016), Beijing, China
  • Kang Ma (B.A. Hunan Univ. [China] 2015), Shenzhen City, China
  • Rosa McElheny (B.A. Wesleyan Univ. 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Tuan Quoc Pham (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2013), Chicago, Ill.
  • Mengyi Qian (B.F.A. Suzhou Univ. 2017), Suzhou, China
  • Zack Robbins (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Steven Rodriguez (B.A. California State Univ. [Fullerton] 2015), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Anna Sagström (B.A. Glasgow School of Art 2009), Fagersta, Sweden
  • Julia Schäfer (B.A. Zurich Univ. of the Arts 2015), Liestal, Switzerland
  • Haeok Shin (B.F.A. Dankook Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2010), Gwangju-si, Republic of Korea
  • Soomin Shon (B.A. Cornell Univ. 2008), Fort Lee, N.J.
  • Hua Shu (B.F.A. Univ. Maryland [Baltimore County] 2013), New York, N.Y.
  • Betty Wang (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2014), Monmouth Junction, N.J.
  • Yuanbo Wang (B.A. Central Acad. of Fine Arts [China] 2015), Quanzhou, China
  • Bryant Wells (B.S. Univ. Cincinnati 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Nicholas Weltyk (B.F.A. Pratt Inst. 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Sam Wood (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2014), Orem, Utah
  • Orysia Zabeida (B.A. Univ. Quebec [Montreal] 2016), Montreal, Canada
  • Wenwen Zhang (B.S. Rutgers Univ. 2017), Qindao, China
  • Liyan Zhao (A.B. Princeton Univ. 2013), Austin, Tex.

Painting/Printmaking

  • Kimberly Altomare (B.F.A. Tyler School of Art 2013), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Hangama Atiqullo (B.F.A. Nova Scotia Coll. of Art & Design 2012), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Braeden Bailey (B.F.A. Southern Methodist Univ. 2016), Plano, Tex.
  • James Bartolacci (B.A. Brandeis Univ. 2012), Ridgewood, N.Y.
  • Ana Benaroya (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2008), Jersey City, N.J.
  • Tim Brawner (B.F.A. Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. 2014), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Kevin Brisco (B.A. Wesleyan Univ. 2013), Memphis, Tenn.
  • Jacob Broussard (B.F.A. Univ. Louisiana 2010), Carencro, La.
  • Mariel Capanna (B.F.A. Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts 2012), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Jose Chavez-Verduzco (B.A. Univ. California [Davis] 2016), North Hollywood, Calif.
  • Taylor Clough (B.F.A. Montserrat Coll. of Art 2013), Southbury, Conn.
  • Gabrielle D’Angelo (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2011, M.Arch. 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Edi Dai (B.A. Univ. California [Irvine] 2010), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Krystal DiFronzo (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2012), Highland Park, Ill.
  • Sara Emsaki (B.A. Univ. California [Berkeley] 2016), San Jose, Calif.
  • Alexander Gibson (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2013), Ridgewood, N.Y.
  • Ian Goldsborough (B.F.A. Maine Coll. of Art 2014), Falmouth, Mass.
  • Phoebe Helander (B.A. Hampshire Coll. 2011), Amherst, Mass.
  • Trevon Latin (B.F.A. Univ. Houston 2015), Houston, Tex.
  • Naomi Lisiki (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2018), Corona, N.Y.
  • Lyndsey Marko (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2012), Seminole, Fla.
  • Victoria Martinez (B.F.A. Minneapolis Coll. of Art & Design 2010), Chicago, Ill.
  • Emile Mausner (B.F.A. Univ. Central Florida 2017), Winter Park, Fla.
  • Aryana Minai (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2016), Glendale, Calif.
  • Amaryllis Moleski (B.F.A. California Coll. of the Arts 2014), Oakland, Calif.
  • Rebecca Ness (B.F.A. Boston Univ. 2015), Boston, Mass.
  • Africanus Okokon (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2013), Brown Deer, Wis.
  • Esteban Ramon Perez (B.F.A. California. Inst. of the Arts 2017), Pasadena, Calif.
  • Dominic Phillips (B.F.A. Milwaukee Inst. of Art & Design 2016), Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Lauren Quin (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2015), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Edd Ravn (B.F.A. Glasgow School of Art 2015), Otley, U.K.
  • Jose de Jesus Rodriguez (B.A. Univ. California [Santa Cruz] 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2015), Miami, Fla.
  • Tajh-Jamal Rust (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Kern Samuel (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2017), Vauxhall, N.J.
  • Leila Seyedzadeh (B.F.A. Univ. of Science & Culture [Iran] 2014), Tehran, Iran
  • Carly Sheehan (B.F.A. Massachusetts Coll. of Art 2014), Amesbury, Mass.
  • Rebecca Shippee (B.F.A. State Univ. New York [Purchase] 2013), Kingston, N.Y.
  • Michael Shultis (B.F.A. Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Kathia St. Hilaire (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2017), West Palm Beach, Fla.
  • Chanel Thomas (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2014), Chicago, Ill.
  • Blair Whiteford (B.F.A. Ringling Coll. of Art & Design 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Ye Qin Zhu (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2010), Brooklyn, N.Y.

Photography

  • Sara Abbaspour (B.Sc. Ferdowsi Univ. Mashhad [Iran] 2013), Mashhad, Iran
  • Genesis Baez (B.F.A. Massachusetts Coll. of Art 2012), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Molly Berman (B.A. Bard Coll. 2012), Sherman Oaks, Calif.
  • Angela Chen (B.A. California State Univ. [Los Angeles] 2009), Temple City, Calif.
  • Deangelo Christian (B.F.A. California. Inst. of the Arts 2017), Long Beach, Calif.
  • Robert Andy Coombs (B.F.A. Kendall Coll. of Art & Design 2013), Norway, Mich.
  • Felix Davey (B.A. Edinburgh Napier Univ. 2012), New York, N.Y.
  • Brian Galderisi (B.F.A. Montserrat Coll. of Art 2012), Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
  • Rory Hamovit (B.A. Bard Coll. 2013), Newbury, Mass.
  • Elizabeth Hibbard (B.A. Univ. California [Santa Cruz] 2012), Morgan Hill, Calif.
  • Dawn Kim (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Morgan Levy (B.F.A. New York Univ. 2007), Denver, Colo.
  • Rodrigo Lopez Gomez (B.S. Univ. Iberoamericana [Mexico] 2006), New York, N.Y.
  • Jane Lowe (B.A. Sarah Lawrence Coll. 2015), New York, N.Y.
  • Kaitlin Maxwell (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2016), Loxahatchee, Fla.
  • Chase Middleton (B.F.A. RMIT Univ. [Australia] 2016), New South Wales, Australia
  • Allison Minto (B.A. State Univ. New York [Buffalo] 2009), Kew Gardens, N.Y.
  • Angel Pedro (B.A. DePaul Univ. 2014), Pueblo, Colo.
  • Kanthy Peng (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2016), Beijing, China
  • Jiajun Wang (B.F.A. California Coll. of the Arts 2016), Hangzhou, China

Sculpture

  • Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (B.F.A. Univ. of the Arts [Helsinki] 2016), Helsinki, Finland
  • Nicki Cherry (B.A. Univ. Chicago 2014), Chicago, Ill.
  • Kerri Conlon (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2009), San Francisco, Calif.
  • Alfredo Diaz (B.A. Univ. California [Los Angeles] 2016), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Azza El Siddique (B.F.A. Ontario Coll. of Art & Design 2014), Ontario, Canada
  • Genevieve Goffman (B.A. Reed Coll. 2015), Washington, D.C.
  • Emilie Gossiaux (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2014), New York, N.Y.
  • Petra Hjartardottir (B.F.A. Hunter Coll. [CUNY] 2017), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Lauren Lee (B.A. Univ. Maryland [College Park] 2015), Baltimore, Md.
  • Efrat Lipkin (B.Ed.F.A. Hamidrasha School of Art 2014), Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Randi Renate Mabry (B.A., B.F.A. Univ. Texas [Austin] 2014), Berlin, Germany
  • Anna Miller (B.F.A. Univ. Arizona 2017), Tucson, Ariz.
  • Catalina Ouyang (B.F.A. Washington Univ. 2015), Saint Louis, Mo.
  • Diego Palacios (B.F.A. California State Univ. [Long Beach] 2017), San Gabriel, Calif.
  • Peyton Sarah Peyton (B.F.A. Univ. Georgia 2016), Jacksonville, Fla.
  • David Roy (B.F.A. Otis Coll. of Art & Design 2013), Inglewood, Calif.
  • Coral Saucedo (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2016), Pasadena, Calif.
  • Sam Shoemaker (B.F.A. California Inst. of the Arts 2014), Altadena, Calif.
  • Karinne Smith (B.A. Univ. California [Berkeley] 2013), Rancho Mirage, Calif.
  • Anne Wu (B.F.A. Cornell Univ. 2013), Flushing, N.Y.
  • Alex Zak (B.A., B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2012), New York, N.Y.
  • Suzanna Zak (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2012), Los Angeles, Calif.

Summary of Enrollment

General Summary

Admissions Information, Fall Term 2018

Applicants 1,149
Applicants admitted 64
Matriculants 61

Student Profile

Graduate students 128

Graphic Design

43

Painting/Printmaking

43

Photography

20

Sculpture

22
Preliminary-year students 8
First-year students 62
Second-year students 58
Female students 75
Male students 53
Age range of students 21–48
Average age of students 29
Mean age of students 29
Undergraduate degrees in fine art 114
Undergraduate degrees in other areas, e.g., anthropology, architecture, history of art, literature 14
Institutions represented 89
States represented 20
Foreign countries represented 15

Institutions Represented

One student from each institution unless otherwise indicated.

  • Art Center College of Design (3)
  • Bard College (2)
  • Boston University
  • Brandeis University
  • Brigham Young University (3)
  • California College of the Arts (2)
  • California Institute of the Arts (3)
  • California State University [Fullerton]
  • California State University [Long Beach]
  • California State University [Los Angeles]
  • Central Academy of Fine Arts [China] (2)
  • Concordia University [Canada]
  • Cooper Union (8)
  • Cornell University (2)
  • Dankook University [Republic of Korea]
  • DePaul University
  • Edinburgh Napier University [Scotland]
  • Ewha Womans University [Republic of Korea]
  • Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Ferdowsi University of Mashhad [Iran]
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie [The Netherlands]
  • Glasgow School of Art (2)
  • Hamidrasha School of Art [Israel]
  • Hampshire College
  • Hastings College
  • Hunan University [China]
  • Hunter College [CUNY]
  • Institut Teknologi Bandung [Indonesia]
  • ISIA Urbino [Italy]
  • Kendall College of Art & Design
  • Korea Institute of Science & Technology [Republic of Korea]
  • Korea University [Republic of Korea]
  • La Salle College of Arts [Singapore]
  • Maine College of Art
  • Maryland Institute College of Art (2)
  • Massachusetts College of Art (2)
  • Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
  • Minneapolis College of Art & Design
  • Montserrat College of Art (2)
  • Nebraska Wesleyan University
  • New York University
  • Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
  • Ontario College of Art & Design
  • Otis College of Art & Design
  • Parsons School of Design
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2)
  • Pratt Institute
  • Princeton University
  • Reed College
  • Rhode Island School of Design (6)
  • Ringling College of Art & Design
  • RMIT University [Australia]
  • Rutgers University
  • San Francisco Art Institute
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago (7)
  • School of Visual Arts (3)
  • Seoul National University [Republic of Korea]
  • Southern Methodist University
  • State University of New York [Buffalo]
  • State University of New York [Purchase]
  • Suzhou University [China]
  • Syracuse University
  • Tyler School of Art
  • Universidad Iberoamericana [Mexico]
  • Université du Québec à Montréal [Canada]
  • University of Arizona
  • University of California [Berkeley] (2)
  • University of California [Davis]
  • University of California [Irvine]
  • University of California [Los Angeles]
  • University of California [Santa Cruz] (2)
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Cincinnati
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Houston
  • University of Louisiana
  • University of Maryland [Baltimore County]
  • University of Maryland [College Park]
  • University of Science & Culture [Iran]
  • University of Texas [Austin]
  • University of the Arts Helsinki [Finland]
  • Vassar College (2)
  • Washington University
  • Wesleyan University (2)
  • Yale University
  • Yeungnam University [Republic of Korea]
  • Zurich University of the Arts [Switzerland]

Institutions represented, 89

Geographical Distribution

One student from each state or country unless otherwise indicated.

United States

  • Arizona (2)
  • California (23)
  • Colorado (2)
  • Connecticut
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida (6)
  • Illinois (5)
  • Louisiana
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts (5)
  • Michigan
  • Missouri
  • New Jersey (4)
  • New York (31)
  • Pennsylvania (3)
  • Rhode Island
  • Tennessee
  • Texas (3)
  • Utah
  • Wisconsin (3)
  • States represented, 20

Foreign Countries

  • Australia
  • Canada (3)
  • China (7)
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Indonesia (2)
  • Iran (2)
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Korea, Republic of (8)
  • Mexico
  • The Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
  • Foreign countries represented, 15