Ahmet Atif Akin (design) is a lecturer, media artist, and curator. He studied engineering (B.S.) and industrial design (MSc.) at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Recently he worked at Bilgi University and Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He taught various courses related to new media and interaction in the context of art and design. He coordinated the senior projects of visual communication design department of Bilgi University and worked as the academic supervisor of the department and some international organizations. He is the founder and the organizer of PixelIST festival, dedicated to electronic arts and its subcultures, together with PixelACHE network. As an artist he produced videos, multimedia installations and photography projects along with publishing articles in various catalogs and periodicals. His work is listed in the Younger Than Jesus art directory project of New Museum, published by Phaidon. He also worked with xurban_collective at various international projects. He was one of the three cocurators of Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts" exhibition and the chief editor of the catalog.

Gerry Beegan (design) researches the relationships between art, design, media, and audience. As a designer he has worked for clients including Harrods, Penguin Books, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. As a design historian his writings have been published internationally. His book, The Mass Image, is published by Palgrave Macmillan, and he also contributed chapters to three recent edited collections: Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design, Visions of the Industrial Age, and 1968: Episodes of Culture in Contest. He is a member of the editorial board of Design and Culture, the only North American peer-reviewed design journal, where he has also served as book reviews editor. In 2008 he coedited a special issue of the Journal of Design History, the first peer-reviewed journal in the field, and he has published essays and reviews in major journals in design history and visual culture including Design Issues, Journal of Visual Culture, and dot dot dot.

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. Kuehn has had shows at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; the Galerie Rudolf 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.

Julie Langsam (drawing) is a painter whose work addresses issues of style, beauty, and idealization by combining images that reference the romantic sublime of the 19th and 20th century's utopian ideals of high modernism. Langsam's juxtaposition of iconographic architectural structures with backgrounds of broad, big-sky landscapes, associated with Hudson River School painters, alludes to the relationship of the sensuous body with the rational mind. Langsam has had numerous exhibitions, including a solo museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award; and is represented in many collections throughout the United States. She is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City. Among Langsam's other activities she is cocurator of such exhibitions as "Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry, and Labor," "House: Case Study Cleveland," and "It's a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting." Langsam is the former head of painting and director of the Kacalieff Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Miranda Lichtenstein (photography) is an artist who works primarily in photography and video. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at venues such as the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan; and Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Stadhaus Ulm, Germany; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Her work has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, Art Review, Art&Text, the New York Times, and Tema Celeste, among others. She is represented in numerous collections including the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum, and the Henry Art Gallery. She was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, in 2009, and at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, in 2002.

Ardele Lister (digital film) has shown work at MoMA (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Beaubourg (Paris), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), and is in the collections of these museums as well as numerous university libraries. Her works have been screened at international video/art/film festivals from Video Roma to the Atlanta Film Festival to Images Festival, which curated a retrospective of her work in 1992. Lister's recent projects, such as Flower/Power, (featuring Rutgers' colleague Ed Cohen, of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies), are multiprojection installations that ruminate on the pedagogical and philosophical possibilities modern technologies disclose, specifically, how teaching and learning take place on at least 2 levels simultaneously. Her early work (notably So Where's My Prince Already?, Sugar Daddy, Split and Zoe's Car) utilized the emerging technologies of video to explore a feminist representational practice in relation to personal narrative, interrogating modes of "truth-telling" through nonlinear or multilinear montage. Later works, such as Behold the Promised Land (1991) and Conditional Love: See Under - Nationalism, Canada (1997), have explored the representational strategies that subtend national identifications and disidentifications wherein appropriated bits of ephemeral archival films speak to numerous voices culled from personal documentary footage and vice-versa. Lister has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Canada Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Banff Centre. She has also written on art and media for Criteria and the Independent (both of which she founded), and for Afterimage and Heeb.

Toby MacLennan (installation and performance) works in sculpture, film, 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 that explore 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.

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. 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 coeditor 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 graduate of Cooper Union whose most recent exhibitions include a show of new work at the Pace Gallery, New York (2010), a survey exhibition of his prints and related drawings at Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York (2010), and a career retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, Canada (2009). Other recent solo exhibitions of his work include Trinity College, Dublin (2008), the Venice Biennale (2007), the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (2007), and the Fisher-Landau Center, New York (2007). His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection and the Whitney Museum, among many others. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received the Medal of Merit in Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is represented by the Pace Gallery in New York and the Stephen Friedman Gallery in 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, where he has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial. He has created mixedmedia, 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 Grand Prix at the 1993 Locarno International Video Festival of Switzerland.

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

Gary Schneider (photography). His early work in painting, performance and film remain integral to his explorations of portraiture and identity. Genetic Self-Portrait, 1998, was exhibited extensively including at Mass MoCA, the International Center of Photography, the Musee de L'Elysee Lausanne, and the National Gallery of Canada. It received an Eisenstaedt award from Life Magazine and Columbia School of Journalism. In 2004, "Gary Schneider: Portraits", a survey, was mounted at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Yale University Press and Harvard University Art Museums published the catalog. In 2005, "Nudes" was published by Aperture, was exhibited at the Aperture gallery, and later traveled to the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. In 2006, he received the Lou Stoumen Award from MoPA, San Diego, and in 2008 the museum mounted survey "Flesh". In 2010, HandBook was published by Aperture. Some public collections that include his work are: the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, Musee de L'Elysee Lausanne, the Whitney Museum, Yale University, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the Reykjavik Art Museum. Schneider has an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute.

Patrick Strzelec (sculpture) makes abstract sculpture. He has been a recipient of numerous awards in sculpture, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ballingkillings Project in Ireland, the Prix de Rome, Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Strzelec has shown with the Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin; Jay Grimm Gallery, New York City; Gary Snyder Fine Arts, New York City; Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York City; and OH&T Gallery, Boston. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Strzelec is the former Rudolph Arnheim Lecturer in Sculpture at Harvard University.

Jacqueline Thaw (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 taught at the University of Hawaii and School of Visual Arts in New York 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 AIGA, the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, and AIGA Honolulu Chapter. She is a member of Class Action, a collective that creates visual designs for social change.

Stephen Westfall (painting) has exhibited his paintings to considerable acclaim in the United States and abroad. 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 Albertine Museum in Vienna, Austria; Humblebaek, Denmark; the Baltimore Museum of Art; The Louisiana Museum; and the Munson Proctor-Williams Institute in Utica, NY. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in painting and fellowship awards and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Nancy Graves Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. He is also a contributing editor to Art in America.

John Yau (critical studies) is a writer, copublisher of Black Square Editions, freelance curator, and the arts editor of the Brooklyn Rail. His recent books include Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin, 2006), Ing Grish, with artwork by Thomas Nozkowski (Saturnalia Books, 2005), and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Poetry and Art (University of Michigan Press, 2006). 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 in Los Angeles. He has written or contributed to monographs and catalogs 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 for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts (three times), Ingram Merrill Foundation (twice), Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, and 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 retired from the department after many years of teaching include Mark Berger, Judith K. Brodsky, Mel Edwards, Lauren Ewing, Leon Golub, John L. Goodyear, Geoffrey Hendricks, Martha Rosler, Joan Semmel, and Peter Stroud.