List of School of Visual Arts people
This is a list of notable alumni and instructors of the School of Visual Arts.
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Notable alumni
Animation
- Jerry Beck – animation historian
- John R. Dilworth - creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog
- Derek Drymon
- Jeremy Goldberg - creator, animater, true jew of Precipitation
- Tom Herpich - storyboard artist for Adventure Time
- Kal Parekh - actor
- Bill Plympton – twice Academy Award-nominated animator
- Chris Prynoski – animator[1]
- Pres Romanillos – supervising animator at Disney and DreamWorks animation
- Rebecca Sugar - storyboard artist and composer for Adventure Time; creator of Steven Universe
- Daisuke Tsutsumi – concept artist and art director at Pixar
- Ian Jones-Quartey - storyboard supervisor and revisionist for Adventure Time and storyboard artist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome; creator of Lakewood Plaza Turbo
Cartooning
- Ross Andru - comic book illustrator and editor DC & Marvel
- Peter Bagge – underground cartoonist
- Kyle Baker – graphic novelist and animator
- Chris Batista – comic book artist on Legion of Superheroes and 52
- Matt Davies – Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- Dennis Detwiller – comic book artist, collectible card game illustrator (Magic: The Gathering) and video game designer (Scarface: The World is Yours)
- Steve Ditko – co-creator of Spider-Man, creator of The Question and others
- Mike Esposito - comic book illustrator (inker) DC, Marvel, Archie Comics
- Tom Feelings — pioneering African American cartoonist and children's book artist
- Bob Fingerman – alternative/underground cartoonist and creator of Minimum Wage and White Like She
- Drew Friedman – alternative cartoonist/illustrator known for his celebrity caricatures
- Rob Gilbert – children's illustrator, animator, cartoonist, known for The Adventures of Ranger Rick
- Archie Goodwin – longtime editor and writer for Marvel and DC
- John Holmstrom – founder of PUNK magazine; co-founder of Comical Funnies with Peter Bagge; creator of Bosko, "America's Least Favorite Cartoon Character"[2]
- Jamal Igle - DC Comics artist of Firestorm, Nightwing, Supergirl and Zatanna[3]
- James Jean – 2001 graduate;[4] cover artist for the comic book series Fables and The Umbrella Academy, for which he has won six Eisner Awards for "Best Cover Artist"[5]
- Phil Jimenez – DC Comics writer/artist for Wonder Woman; artist for Infinite Crisis
- Kaz – underground cartoonist known for his strip Underworld
- John Paul Leon – comic book illustrator, known for work on Earth X, Static
- Tom Moore – Archie cartoonist, writer, letterer
- Mark Newgarden – underground cartoonist and creator of the Garbage Pail Kids[6]
- Joe Quesada – comic book illustrator, editor-in-chief and later Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics; majored in illustration and graduated in 1984[7]
- Carlos Saldanha – director and co-director of the films Ice Age, Robots, and Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Lew Schwartz - founder of film department and former Batman artist and Emmy Award winning film-maker[8]
- Joe Sinnott – longtime Marvel Comics inker
- J. David Spurlock – instructor, artists' advocate and award-winning author, art director, publisher
- Gerard Way – lead singer of My Chemical Romance (2001-2013); artist of The Breakfast Monkey; author of The Umbrella Academy[9]
- Wally Wood – creator of MAD, Weird Science, Shock SuspenStories, Daredevil, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Witzend, Power Girl
Computer art
- Laurence Gartel – digital art pioneer[10]
- Nikita Mikros – independent game designer
Film and video
- Fred Armisen - actor, comedian, writer and Saturday Night Live cast member; did not graduate
- Samuel Bayer – music video and commercial director; has directed music videos for Green Day, Blink 182, Lionel Richie, and Sheryl Crow; directed 2010 remake of The Nightmare on Elm Street; graduated SVA with a BFA in Film and Video in 1987
- Andrew Bowser – co-director and star of The Mother of Invention[11]
- Sam Brown – comedian and founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know.[12]
- Steve Carr – film director, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Daddy Day Care, Next Friday, Are We Done Yet?
- David Caspe – creator of the ABC hit show Happy Endings; screenwriter, That's My Boy; graduated from SVA in 2005 with an MFA
- Zach Cregger – comedian and member of the sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know[12]
- Michael Cuesta – director of L.I.E.
- Randall Emmett – film producer, Rambo, Iron Man; former personal assistant to Mark Wahlberg; graduated SVA in 1995 with a BFA in Film and Video
- Michael Giacchino – film composer[13]
- Craig Gillespie - film and commercial director; Lars and the Real Girl, Mr. Woodcock, and Fright Night; has been directing commercials for over a decade
- Ranbir Kapoor - actor, assistant director, producer of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Rockstar; attended workshop; did not graduate
- Rahul Khanna – Indian actor
- Jared Leto – film actor (Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, Fight Club, Dallas Buyers Club); attended SVA for a BFA in Film and Video, during which time he directed and starred in short film Crying Joy; director of music videos for his band Thirty Seconds to Mars: "The Kill", "From Yesterday", "Kings and Queens", "Closer to the Edge", "Hurricane" under the alias of Bartholomew Cubbins, and "A Beautiful Lie" under the alias of Angakok Panipaq
- Trevor Moore – comedian and founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know[12]
- Joseph M. Petrick – writer and co-director of The Mother of Invention[14]
- Jonathan Pontell - Emmy, Golden Globe, and George Foster Peabody Award winning television director, producer and editor
- Jesse Richards – painter, Remodernist filmmaker and founder of U.S. Stuckism center
- Andrew Rona – film producer and studio executive; former co-president of Rogue Pictures; president of Silver Pictures; produced Unknown, Scary Movie 3, Scream 2, Scream 3, Project X*Harris Savides – cinematographer of the films Last Days, Elephant, Gerry, Zodiac, and Milk
- Barry Rosen - television producer and director; executive producer of TV series Zorro, produced numerous TV movies including Christmas Every Day*Carlos Saldanha – director and co-director of Ice Age, Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Rio; his films have grossed over $2.6 billion worldwide; according to box office mojo, he is the 38th most successful director of all time based on box office gross
- Marc Scarpa – pioneering digital media producer/director; Town Hall with President Clinton, The X Factor Digital Experience, VidBlogger Nation
- Bryan Singer – film director, attended SVA for two years before transferring to the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles[15]
- Kazuhiro Soda – director of observational documentaries "Campaign", "Mental", and "Peace"
- Dante Tomaselli – film director of Anchor Bay Entertainment's Satan's Playground
- Morten Tyldum - Norwegian director of Headhunters and The Imitation Game
- Ti West – director of the horror comedy The Roost and Cabin Fever 2
Fine arts
- Esao Andrews – painter and skateboard designer
- Ali Banisadr - painter and drawer
- Samuel Bayer – commercial and music video director for bands including Nirvana, Green Day, The Offspring, Blink-182, The Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Metallica, and My Chemical Romance; directed Green Day's concert film Bullet in a Bible; directed many commercials for companies such as Coca-Cola, Toyota, Nike, and several commercials for the United States Army "Army Strong" campaign; graduated SVA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1987
- Robert Beauchamp - painter[16]
- Tom Burr – installation artist
- Robin Byrd – adult film actress; took art and sketching classes at SVA; did life form modeling to help pay for classes[17]
- Rosson Crow – painter
- Lori Earley – painter
- Gregory Edwards - New York City and Frankfurt, Germany painter, conceptual artist
- Inka Essenhigh – painter
- Neck Face – graffiti artist
- Andrea Fraser – performance artist
- Pamela Fraser – painter
- Barnaby Furnas – painter
- Jedd Garet - sculptor, painter, and printmaker[18]
- Kate Gilmore - multimedia artist
- Keith Haring – attended, but was expelled when he used the interior of an SVA building as a canvas for graffiti in a project with Jean-Michel Basquiat[19]
- Gus Heinze – painter
- James Jaxxa – multimedia artist
- Reverend Jen – performance artist
- Vashtie Kola, also known as Vashtie or Va$htie - director, designer, artist, blogger, party promoter
- Joseph Kosuth – conceptual artist[19]
- Robert Lazzarini – sculptor and installation artist
- Dinh Q Lê – fine arts photographer[20]
- Sol LeWitt – artist working in multiple media
- Jennifer Macdonald - conceptual artist
- Mark McCoy – print artist and photographer, notable for releasing on Heartworm Press
- Aleksandra Mir - artist
- Steve Mumford – painter
- Paul A. Paddock - painter
- Elizabeth Peyton – painter
- Andrew Cornell Robinson – multimedia artist
- Jorge Luis Rodriguez -- painter, sculptor, mixed-media artist
- Brian Rutenberg – painter
- Kenny Scharf - painter
- Sarah Sze – sculptor and MacArthur Fellows Program ("Genius Grant") recipient[21]
- John von Bergen – sculptor
- Charlie White – artist, working primarily in photography
Graphic design
- Gail Anderson (graphic designer) – partner at Anderson Newton Design; faculty at SVA; former senior art director of Rolling Stone
- Cojo, Art Juggernaut, born Colin C. Jorgensen – fine artist, commercial artist, cartoonist
- Todd Radom – designer of logos for professional sports teams and leagues
Illustration
- Federico Castelluccio – painter; Italian-born actor, known for portraying Furio Giunta on the HBO series The Sopranos[22][23]
- Paul Brooks Davis – illustrator
- Tomer Hanuka – illustrator
- Yuko Shimizu – illustrator
- J. P. Targete – illustrator and concept artist[24]
Music
- Chantal Claret – founding member and lead singer of Morningwood
- Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, also known as Voltaire – animator and comic artist, artist of "BRAINS!", a song written for the Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy in the episode Little Rock of Horror
- Jared Leto – lead singer and co-founder of alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars; actor; film director
- Mark McCoy – influential hardcore punk frontman, notable for Charles Bronson and Das Oath
- Gerard Way – lead singer and co-founder of alternative rock band My Chemical Romance; writer of comic book The Umbrella Academy
Photography
- David Carol - photographer
- Renée Cox – artist, photographer
- Simen Johan - artist, photographer
- Noah Kalina – art and editorial photographer
- Justine Kurland – fine art photographer
- David LaChapelle – photographer
- Lorna Simpson – artist
- Amy Stein – photographer
- Romulo Yanes - photographer
Other
- Manuel DeLanda – philosopher and writer
- Sheila Lukins – cook and food writer who co-authored the The Silver Palate series of cookbooks and The New Basics Cookbook[25]
- Camillo Mac Bica - philosopher, author, activist
- John Bollinger[26] - author, financial analyst, hedge fund manager, inventor of Bollinger Bands
Notable faculty
Animation
- Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez – musician, animator, author and artist[27]
Art history
- Mel Bochner – conceptual artist
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- Leandro Katz – conceptual artist and filmmaker
- Donald Kuspit – author of numerous books, including The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist; The Dialectic of Decadence
- Robert C. Morgan – art critic
- Jerry Saltz – former head art critic, Village Voice; currently writes for New York
Cartooning
- Jessica Abel – graphic novelist, La Perdida[28]
- Sal Amendola – comic book artist primarily associated with DC Comics[29]
- Will Eisner – comics legend whose SVA courses led to his books Comics & Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative
- Tom Gill - Dell Western cartoonist, noted for the Lone Ranger
- Tom Hart – cartoonist, writer, Hutch Owen
- Carmine Infantino – writer and editor during the silver age of comic books
- Klaus Janson – a veteran of several Batman comics, including The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Black and White, and Batman: Gothic[30]
- Phil Jimenez – illustrator on Wonder Woman, New Xmen, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, JLA-Titans, Planetary/Authority[31]
- Harvey Kurtzman – cartoonist, editor, and founding editor of Mad magazine[32]
- Matt Madden – cartoonist/writer known for works such as Odds Off
- Jack Markow - cartoonist, originator of the course in magazine cartooning
- Rick Marschall – writer-editor, Nemo, the Classic Comics Library
- David Mazzucchelli – illustrator of Batman: Year One; creator of Asterios Polyp [33]
- Joe Orlando – artist-editor, vice president of DC Comics, associate publisher of Mad[34]
- Gary Panter – cartoonist, writer, Jimbo in Purgatory
- Walter Simonson – worked on Thor and X-Men-related comics[35]
- Art Spiegelman – comics artist, editor and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus
- Bhob Stewart – comics for The Realist, Charlton, DC, Marvel and Warren Publishing
- Sam Viviano – contributor and art director at Mad magazine
Fine arts
- Richard Artschwager – sculptor and designer
- Alice Aycock – creator of large, architectural sculptures; solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art
- John Bageris - painter
- Robert Beauchamp - painter
- Lynda Benglis – innovator of materials in the 1970s; feminist icon
- Ronald Bladen - sculptor
- John Button - painter
- Dan Christensen – painter
- Chuck Close - painter
- Michael Goldberg – painter
- Eva Hesse – sculptor
- Chaim Koppelman - printmaker, created the Printmaking Dept. at SVA (1959) where he taught until 2007
- Joseph Kosuth – conceptual artist
- Ronnie Landfield – painter
- Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt – artist
- Sol LeWitt - artist
- Michael Loew – painter
- Robert Mangold – painter
- Brice Marden – painter
- Keith Milow – artist
- Marilyn Minter – exhibitions include Salon 94 (NY), Whitney Biennial 2006
- Elizabeth Murray – painter
- Joseph Nechvatal – digital art and theories of virtual reality.
- Steve Poleskie - screen printing
- Joseph Raffael - painter
- Jane Rosen – sculptor and painter
- Carolee Schneemann – artist
- Barbara Schwartz – artist
- Joel Shapiro – sculptor
- James Siena - artist
- Marjorie Strider – sculptor
- Jack Whitten – painter
- Hannah Wilke - artist, sculptor, founder of SVA Ceramics Program
- Neil Williams – painter
- Larry Zox – painter
Graphic design
- Edward Benguiat – calligrapher and type designer; created over 600 typeface fonts, such as Barcelona and Bookman; designed the logos for The New York Times, Playboy, AND Sports Illustrated; teaches typography[36]
- Milton Glaser – designer who created the famous "I love NY" logo
- Steven Heller - co-founder of the school's MFA "Designer as Author" program.[37]
- KAWS, born Brian Donnelly – graffiti artist, limited-edition clothing and toy designer
- Debbie Millman – partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands
- Stefan Sagmeister – award-winning graphic designer
- Paula Scher – graphic designer and principal at the Pentagram design consultancy; created redesigns of the Citibank and Tiffany brands; her work is featured in the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- James Victore – independent graphic designer
Illustration
- Ray DiPalma – poet and visual artist
- James McMullan – illustrator and designer
- John Sheridan – poster artist and magazine cover illustrator[38]
- Robert Weaver – pioneering illustrator of the 50s[39]
- George Woodbridge – illustrator known for his exhaustive research and historical accuracy, with exacting expertise in drawing military uniforms[40]
Photography
- Guy Aroch – photographer, BFA photography department professor
- Marco Breuer – photographer
- Elinor Carucci – photographer, BFA photography department professor
- Laurel Nakadate – video artist, photographer, BFA photography department professor
- Stan Shaffer – photographer
- Amy Stein – photographer
- Amy Taubin – film critic, former curator of video and film at The Kitchen, MFA Photography Video and Related Media department
- Jerry Yulsman – photographer (Playboy, Collier's, Look) and novelist (Elleander Morning)
Filmmaking
- Roy Frumkes – screenwriter and independent filmmaker[41]
- Bob Giraldi - director and independent filmmaker
- Chris Newman – sound engineer; three-time Academy Award winner and five-time nominee; sound mixer and director; The Godfather, Amadeus, The Exorcist, The Silence of the Lambs, and The English Patient
- Lew Schwartz, founder of film department; former Batman artist; Emmy Award-winning filmmaker[8]
- Amy Taubin – curator, film critic and filmmaker (Film Comment, Millennium Film Journal, Artforum, Premiere, L.A. Weekly, Sight and Sound, The Village Voice)
MFA computer art
- Lillian Schwartz – visiting scholar
References
- ↑ Furman, T.J. "Bordentown native creates MTV cartoon: Cable network's newest show to premiere Tuesday", Princeton Packet, July 31, 1999. Accessed December 11, 2007. "Chris Prynoski graduated from SVA in 1994 and started working for MTV the next day."
- ↑ Morgan, Jeffrey. "John Holmstrom: Floating in a bottle of formaldehyde", Metro Times, February 4, 2004. Accessed July 6, 2008. "Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner (my teachers at the School of Visual Arts who both later hired me for freelance work before I started PUNK) also had a huge influence on me."
- ↑ "MULTIVERSO DC: Exclusive interview with Jamal Igle". Titans Tower. March 2008
- ↑ "Painfully Self-aware And 'Serious' ", Communication Arts Insights, March 31, 2009
- ↑ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Fables", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 72–81, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
- ↑ Dery, Mark (March 19, 2006). "A Cartoonist in Despair? Now That's Funny". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
- ↑ Glaser, Brian. "Q+A: Joe Quesada". Visual Arts Journal. School of Visual Arts. Fall 2011. pages 50-55.
- 1 2 Cooke, John B. (August 2005). "Lew Sayre Schwartz Checklist". Alter Ego. TwoMorrows Publishing. 3 (51): 30.
- ↑ Gustines, George Gene. "Superhero Stylings From Stars of Pop". The New York Times. October 20, 2007. Accessed November 27, 2007. "For Mr. Way, "Umbrella Academy" was another way to be productive when he wasn't recording with the band. It also used skills he developed as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan."
- ↑ Cotroneo, Nicole. "Mouse Almighty", The New York Times, November 4, 2007. Accessed November 27, 2007. "...he grew up in North Shore Towers, on the Queens-Nassau County border, and after receiving his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he studied photography at C. W. Post."
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101453/
- 1 2 3 DeBartolo, Dick; Mad magazine #486; February 2008; Page 26.
- ↑ Burlingame, Jon. "Michael Giacchino's Mission: Make the Old Music New", The New York Times, May 7, 2006. Accessed November 27, 2007. "The backyard for Mr. Giacchino, 38, was in Edgewater Park, N.J., where he grew up watching — and listening to — Hanna-Barbera cartoons, "The A-Team" and reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, but, as music became his main interest, he took classes at Juilliard and, later, film-music extension courses at U.C.L.A."
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3097138/
- ↑ Weinraub, Bernard. "FILM; An Unusual Choice for the Role of Studio Superhero", The New York Times, July 9, 2000. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Mr. Singer attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for two years, and then transferred to the University of Southern California."
- ↑ "Robert Beauchamp, American (1923 - 1995)". Ro Gallery. 2011. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.
- ↑ Morris, Bob. "Cable's First Lady Of Explicit", The New York Times, June 23, 1996. Accessed December 3, 2007. "At 17, Ms. Byrd got her graduate equivalency diploma and then pursued advertising design at Baruch College but dropped out in her senior year. By then it was the early 1970s and she was modeling at the School of Visual Arts, where she had been taking life-drawing classes."
- ↑ Honolulu Museum of Art, Spalding House Self-guided Tour, Sculpture Garden, 2014, p. 1
- 1 2 Kennedy, Randy (2007-06-30). "Silas H. Rhodes Dies at 91; Built School of Visual Arts". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
- ↑ Johnson, Ken. "Images of Vietnamese in the Generation Since the War", October 7, 2005. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Mr. Le came to the United States with his family when he was 11 and eventually received a master of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan."
- ↑ Kastner, Jeffrey. "ART / ARCHITECTURE; Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter Around the House", The New York Times, July 11, 1999. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Since completing her master's degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997, she has mounted projects at institutions across Europe, from Greece and Luxembourg to France and Austria."
- ↑ "«I Sopranos? No agli stereotipi ma non facciamone un dramma» – Federico Castelluccio, il Furio Giunta della celebre serie tv, a Toronto per incontrare gli zii", Corriere Canadese, May 11, 2005
- ↑ Cast and Crew Biography of Federico Castelluccio from The Sopranos. Retrieved December 25, 2006.
- ↑ The Gnomon Workshop website J.P. Targete is an accomplished digital and traditional illustrator, concept artist and art director for books and video games. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and started working professionally at age twenty, illustrating book covers for Avon Books.
- ↑ Moskin, Julia. "Sheila Lukins, 66, Dies; Awakened Taste Buds", The New York Times, August 30, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- ↑ Anlaysis, Technical. "Bollinger Interview". traders.com. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ↑ Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez
- ↑ Jessica Abel at schoolofvisualarts.edu
- ↑ Sal Amendola at schoolofvisualarts.edu
- ↑ Klaus Jason at schoolofvisualarts.edu
- ↑ Phil Jimenez at schoolofvisualarts.edu
- ↑ Lyons, Richard D. (February 22, 1993). "Harvey Kurtzman, 68, Cartoonist Who Helped Start Mad Magazine". The New York Times
- ↑ David Mazzucchelli at schoolofvisualarts.edu
- ↑ Cooke, Jon B. (February 19, 1998). "Orlando's Weird Adventures". Reprinted from From Comic Book Artist #1. TwoMorrows Publishing.
- ↑ Callahan, Timothy. "When Words Collide: Dialogue with Walt Simonson, Pt. 1", Comic Book Resources, May 9, 2011
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- ↑ Nash, Eric. "George Woodbridge, 73, Artist For Mad Magazine Since 1950s", The New York Times, January 22, 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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