Past Lectures

Each summer, we invite visiting artists, curators, and scholars to participate in the MFA Program curriculum. In addition to critiques and studio visits with students, Visiting Artists deliver a lecture.

Past Visiting Artists

2019

2018

2017

Sonya Clark, Artist
Jesse Small, Sculptor
Tamara Gonzales, Painter
Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Rose Marasco, Photographer
Brandon Alvendia, Artist, Curator
Keith Boadwee, Painter

2016

Seth Goldenberg MFA ’05, Founder of The Epic Decade
Hrag Vartanian, Editor-in-Chief of Hyperallergic
Huma Bhabha, Sculptor
Lori Nix, Photographer

Keith Edmier, Sculptor
Ann Hirsch, Performance Artist
Jim Shaw, Artist

2015

Ben Street, Art Historian
Adam Brown, Conceptual Artist
Laura Larson, Photographer
Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Performance

Christopher Whittey, Artist, Arts Administrator
Inka Essenhigh, Painter
Chunghie Lee, Fiber Artist
Robert Hobbs, Art Historian

2014

Abigail DeVille, Sculptor
Sharon Hayes, Performer, Videographer
Rick Lowe, Activist
Michael Oatman, Collage, Installation

Jay Sanders, Curator
Richard Renaldi, Photographer
Lisa Sigal, Painter
Trevor Smith, Curator

2013

Laylah Ali, Painter
Jim Drain, Installation
Kate Gilmore, Performance
Jennifer Gross, Curator

Spencer Finch, Sculptor
Alix Lambert, Filmmaker
William Villalongo, Printmaker
William Wegman, Photographer

2012

Francis Cape, Woodworker
Radcliffe Bailey, Painter
Amze Emmons, Curator
Stanya Kahn, Videographer

Michael Kimmelman, Art Critic
Beth Lipman, Sculptor
Denise Markonish, Curator
Anne Wilson, Sculptor