Gerry Beegan (graphic design) is a writer, curator, and designer who creates exhibitions, visual works, and historical/theoretical texts that explore the relationships among art, design, media, and audience. His writings on the history and theory of reproduction have been published internationally. His book The Mass Image is published by Macmillan, and he has also contributed to journals and magazines including the Journal of Design History, Time and Society, Design Issues, Journal of Visual Culture, and dot dot dot. He curates exhibitions that juxtapose design artifacts with artworks, and his own work taking books and magazines as its focus has been shown in galleries in London and New York.

Hasan Elahi (media) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders, and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the Venice Biennale; the Centre Georges Pompidu (Paris, France); the Kulturbahnhof (Kassel, Germany); the Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia); and the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (New York). Mr. Elahi recently was invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern (London), Pop!Tech, and at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. His work has been supported with significant grants and numerous sponsorships from the Creative Capital Foundation, Ford Foundation/Philip Morris, and the Asociaci ón Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Country/Spain, among others.

Jason Francisco (photography) is a photographer, book artist, and writer whose work investigates the nature of photographs as documents in the construction of social meaning. His projects include in-depth works on rural India, San Francisco's Chinatown, and contemporary Europe. In addition, he has done a series of works on the Shoah and American cities. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is represented in numerous collections. He is the author, most recently of Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Gary Kuehn (sculpture) examines certain innate forces within materials through his work. He was included in the Eccentric Abstraction show in New York and in When Attitude Becomes Form at the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland. Mr. Kuehn has had shows at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; the Galerie Rudolph Zwirner in Cologne, Germany; and the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. His work is in major museum collections in the United States and Europe.

Ardele Lister (film and video) works in digital media which have been exhibited internationally in festivals, galleries, and museums. One of the first artists to work with digital technologies, Lister's art (notably "Hell," 1984) led to her work on avant-garde television projects such as Pee Wee's Playhouse (CBS). For this innovative television show, Ms. Lister produced all the "Connect the Dots" segments, in which live-action Pee Wee "jumped" into the computer-generated and animated "Magic Screen." The issues of defining identity in post-national, globalized culture and the role of media in shaping our identies is at the center of Ms. Lister's research. Her upcoming interactive project will hopefully promote awareness across racial, religious, and national divides. In 1977, Ms. Lister founded and edited The Independent, the first monthly publication for independent video and filmakers, still in publication. She has written on media and art for Afterimage, Felix, Criteria and other publications. Ms. Lister's films are in the Permanent Collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Beaubourg Center (Paris), the Kunsthalle (Berlin), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). She has been a Fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, and the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.

Toby MacLennan (installation and performance) works in performance, sculpture, film, installation, and writing. Published books include 1 Walked out of 2 and Forgot it, The Shape of the Stone was Stoneshaped, and Singing the Stars. Her installations and performance work have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her films have been shown at the New York Film Festival and other festivals around the world.

Barbara Madsen (printmaking) works in print, photography, and installation. Her work challenges the traditional flat print format with three-dimensional installations exploring the monumental limits of the printed image by creating encapsulated environments. She has had one-person exhibitions in New York, Delaware, Italy, Scotland, Czech Republic, Serbia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Her works have been shown in international exhibitions in China, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Serbia, France, Ireland, Finland, Belgium, England, Scotland, India, and Japan. She has exhibited in over 100 group exhibitions in the United States. She has been a visiting artist at: St. Lawrence University; University of Delaware; Miami University; the Mori Art School (New Zealand); Anderson Ranch; Plains Art Museum; Sopocani Art Colony (Serbia); Frans Masereel Center (Belgium); Glasgow Print Studio (Scotland); Edinburgh Printmaker's Workshop (Scotland); Palacky University (Czech Republic); Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Purdue University; University of Oregon; and Dartmouth College. Her works are in collections of the New York Public Library; Library of Congress; Dartmouth College; University of Sharijah (United Arab Emirates); Buanlan Art Center (Shenzhen, China); and Amoco Corporation.

Patricia Mayer (interim chair) is a choreographer, dancer and art administrator. She has served as acting dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and as chair of the Department of Dance. She co-established the B.A. dance major at Douglass College and the B.F.A. dance major at Mason Gross School for the Arts. She is an elected member of the board of directors for the National Association of Schools of Dance in addition to serving as a panelist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Diane Neumaier (photography) is an artist who has explored many aspects of photography, most recently abstract color photograms. Her exhibition A Voice Silenced addresses the Holocaust and is currently traveling internationally. Ms. Neumaier is editor of the book and curator of the accompanying exhibition Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art. She is editor of the collection Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies and co-editor of Cultures in Contention, an anthology on cultural activism. She has organized many exhibitions and exchanges between American, Russian, and eastern European artists.

Thomas Nozkowski (painting) is a painter whose most recent exhibitions include an installation of new work at la Biennale di Venezia (2007), a career survey at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany (2007), and one-person exhibitions at Max Protetch Gallery and Bravin Lee Projects, New York (2006). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include PaceWildenstein (New York, 2008) and a traveling career retrospective, organized by Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal, Canada, 2009). He is represented in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Phillips Collection among many others. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit (2006). Thomas is represented by PaceWildernstein (New York) and Haunch of Venison (London).

Raphael Ortiz (performance) founded and was the first director of the El Museo Del Barrio in New York in 1969. His sculptures are included in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial. He has created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States. His computer-laser-video works are in numerous museum collections, including the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. His video, Dance Number 22, won the Gran Prix at the 1993 Locarno International Video Festival of Switzerland.

Michael Rees (digital sculpture) combines sculpture and animation as a means to explore the moral implications of artifical life. He has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum in the 1995 Biennial exhibition and in 2001 BitStreams exhibition. He has shown his work in one person projects at the Aldrich Museum, the Marta Museum in Hereford, Germany, and at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Rees has received a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Creative Capital Grant, and a DAAD grant. He has taught at New York Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, and Oberlin College. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Edelman Foundation (Luzerne, Switzerland), the Science Museum (London, England) and the Kemper Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri). He is also included in many private collections. Mr. Rees has pioneered the use of computers in sculpture employing both animation modeling programs and computer aided manufacture devices to create his work.

Hanneline Røgeberg (painting) has exhibited her work at the Aldrich Museum, the Whitney Museum, MIT, Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Henie-Onstad Kunst Center in Norway, among other places. She received a WESTAF-NEA Fellowship in 1996, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and an Anonymous Was a Woman award in 2003. She has taught previously at the University of Washington, Yale University, and Cooper Union.

Martha Rosler (photography, video, media, and critical studies) works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively in this country and internationally. Her work in the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, ranges from the link between social life and the media to architecture and the built environment. She has published fourteen books of photographs, texts, and commentary, including several on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen most recently in the "Documenta" 12 exhibition in Kassel, Germany; Sculpture Project Münster 07; as well as in the Venice Bienniale (2003); several Whitney biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center for Photography (2000). An accompanying book has been published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines such as Artforum, Afterimage, and Studio International. A book of her essays is published by MIT Press (2004). She was awarded the Spectrum International Prize for Photography (Germany) for 2005, The Oskar Kokoschka Prize (Austria's highest fine arts prize) for 2006, and an Anonymous was a Woman Grant (2007), and she has been chosen as Honored Educator in 2003 by the Society of Photographic Education's Mid-Atlantic region.

Jacqueline Thaw (graphic design) is a graphic designer focused on the printed word and design's role in public life. Her work as an editorial and identity designer in New York City includes four years with the interdisciplinary design consultancy Pentagram. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and the School of Visual Arts and has given talks and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fordham University, and the national conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, and AIGA/Honolulu. She is a member of Class Action, a collective that creates design for social change.

Stephen Westfall (painting) has exhibited his paintings to considerable acclaim in the United States and abroad for over a decade. He has had shows at Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Galerie Zurcher, and at Galerie Paal; his work can be found in several public collections including the Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Munson Proctor-Williams Institute (Utica, NY), and the University Art Museum (University of California, Santa Barbara); he has received fellowship awards and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Nancy Graves Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, and from the New York State Council on the Arts. He holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of California (Santa Barbara). He has held teaching positions at Bard College and at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

John Yau (critical studies) is a writer, co-publisher of Black Square Editions, freelance curator, and the arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His recent books include Paradiso Diaspora (2006, Pengiun), Ing Grish, with artwork by Thomas Nozkowski (2005, Saturnalia Books), and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Poetry and Art (2006, University of Michigan Press). Since 1978, he has published reviews and essays in Art in America, Artforum, Art of Paper, American Poet, American Poetry Review, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1996, he curated Ed Moses, A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings 1951-1996 for the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). He has written or contributed to monographs and catalogues on Richard Pousette-Dart, Jasper Johns, Leiko Ikemura, Whitfield Lovell, Joan Mitchell, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark di Suvero, and Wifredo Lam. He has collaborated with numerous artists, including Bill Jensen, Archie Rand, Pat Steir, Ed Paschke, Max Gimblett, Jurgen Partenheimer, Thomas Nozkowski, Peter Saul, and Suzanne McClelland. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (2006-2007), and he has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts (three times), Ingram Merrill Foundation (twice), Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation. His awards include a General Electric Foundation Award, a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, The Brendan Gill Award, and Best Book of the Year in 2006 for Ing Grish from Small Press Traffic. In 2002, he was named a Chevalier in the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government.

Some of our distinguished graduate faculty who have retired from the department after many years of teaching include: Mark Berger, Judith K. Brodsky, Mel Edwards, Leon Golub, John L. Goodyear, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joan Semmel, and Peter Stroud.