100 Notable alumni of
School of Visual Arts
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The School of Visual Arts is 445th in the world, 177th in North America, and 164th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the School of Visual Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jared Leto
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristfilm directorsingercomposer
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Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received numerous accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, he is recognised for his musicianship and eccentric stage persona as a member of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
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Gerard Way
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- singer-songwritercomposerwritercomics artistcomics writer
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Gerard Arthur Way is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He released his debut solo album, Hesitant Alien, in 2014.
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Keith Haring
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- writerdrawergraffiti artistgraphic artistmuralist
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Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
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Bryan Singer
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- film producerdirectoractorexecutive producerfilm director
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Bryan Jay Singer is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed.
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Steve Ditko
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- comics artistscreenwriterdrawerillustrator
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Stephen John Ditko was an American comics artist and writer best known for being the co-creator of Marvel superhero Spider-Man and creator of Doctor Strange. He also made notable contributions to the character of Iron Man, revolutionizing the character's red and yellow design.
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Michael Giacchino
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- music executivecomposerfilm score composer
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Michael Giacchino is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games. He has received many awards, including an Oscar for his work on Up (2009), an Emmy for his work on Lost (2004), and three Grammys for his work on Ratatouille (2007) and Up (2009). Beginning in 2018, he ventured into directing as well, and as a director is best known for Marvel Studios' Werewolf by Night.
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Rebecca Sugar
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- voice actorcomposercartoonistanimatortelevision producer
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Rebecca Rea Sugar is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director and musician. She is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so. Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Sugar is bisexual, non-binary, and genderqueer, using both she/her and they/them pronouns. Sugar's queerness has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in the arts, especially in children's entertainment.
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Trevor Moore
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- television actormanufacturerdirectorcomics artistfilm director
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Trevor Paul Moore was an American comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and solo comedy musician. He was known for being one of the three founding members—alongside Sam Brown and Zach Cregger—of the New York City-based comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK), who had their own sketch comedy series on IFC that ran for five seasons.
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Rahul Khanna
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- television presenteractor
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Rahul Khanna is an Indian actor, VJ and writer who works in Bollywood. He is the elder son of actor Vinod Khanna and the elder brother of Akshaye Khanna.
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Jane Wagner
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- film directorstage actorscreenwriterrecord produceractor
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Jane Wagner is an American writer, director and producer. She is Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, and wife.
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Randall Emmett
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- film producerpoker playerfilm director
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Randall Emmett is an American film producer and television personality. He is the chairman and co-founder of production company Emmett/Furla Oasis Films.
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Ti West
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- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producerfilm editor
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Timon C. West is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, and occasional actor, best known for his work in horror films. He directed the horror films The Roost (2005), Trigger Man (2007), The House of the Devil (2009), The Innkeepers (2011), The Sacrament (2013), X and its prequel Pearl (both 2022), and the Western In a Valley of Violence (2016). He has also acted in a number of films, mostly in those directed by either himself or Joe Swanberg.
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KAWS
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- paintervisual artistsculptorart collectordesigner
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Brian Donnelly, known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s, initially painted in 2D and later realized in 3D. Some of his characters are his own creations while others are reworked versions of existing icons.
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Federico Castelluccio
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- painterfilm directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
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Federico Castelluccio is an Italian-born American actor. He is best known for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO series The Sopranos.
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Morten Tyldum
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- film directorexecutive producer
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Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film Headhunters (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016).
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Craig Gillespie
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- commercial directordirectorfilm director
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Craig Gillespie is an Australian-American film, television, music video, and commercial director. He is best known for directing the films Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Fright Night (2011), I, Tonya (2017), and Cruella (2021).
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Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 36)
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- screenwriteractor
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Brennan Lee Mulligan is an American comedian, actor, writer, and gamemaster. He has worked with CollegeHumor as a sketch writer and performer, and as gamemaster for their actual play web series, Dimension 20. He also wrote the superhero webcomic Strong Female Protagonist alongside artist Molly Ostertag.
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Genevieve Gorder
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- interior designer
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Genevieve Gorder is an American television host and interior designer. She hosted Bravo's Best Room Wins. Previously, she hosted Stay Here on Netflix, Genevieve's Renovation, "White House Christmas," and Dear Genevieve on HGTV and judged HGTV's Design Star.
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Carlos Saldanha
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with master's degree in art
- Occupations
- screenwriterpainterfilm producerfilm directoranimator
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Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.
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Joe Quesada
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- writereditoractorcomics artistexecutive producer
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Joseph Quesada is an American comic book artist, writer, editor, and television producer. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, Man of the Atom. He later worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, such as Batman: Sword of Azrael and X-Factor, before forming his own company, Event Comics, where he published his creator-owned character, Ash.
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John R. Dilworth
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- screenwriteranimatortelevision directorbusinessperson
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John Russell Dilworth is an American animator, actor, writer, director, storyboard artist, producer and the creator of the animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog. His work has mainly appeared on PBS, CBS, Showtime, HBO, Fox, ABC, NBC, Arte, CBC Television, YTV, Teletoon, BBC Two, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV, among others.
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Raina Telgemeiere
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- writercomics artistnovelistcartoonistillustrator
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Raina Telgemeier is an American cartoonist. Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color middle grade graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. She has also written and illustrated the graphic novels Ghosts and Guts as well as four graphic novels adapted from The Baby-Sitters Club stories by Ann M. Martin.
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David Caspe
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- showrunnerscreenwritertelevision producer
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David Herbert Caspe is an American film and television writer. As a writer-producer, he is best known for his work in television as creator of sitcoms such as ABC's Happy Endings, the Showtime comedy Black Monday, and the NBC sitcoms Kenan and Marry Me. Other work includes writing the 2012 film That's My Boy and co-creating the YouTube Premium series Champaign ILL.
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Enrico Casarosa
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- film directorstoryboard artistscreenwriterdirector
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Enrico Casarosa is an Italian director and storyboard artist who works for Pixar. He directed the short film La Luna (2011) and the feature film Luca (2021). Both were nominated for Academy Awards.
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Julie Klausner
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- writerscreenwritertelevision actorcomedianjournalist
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Julie Klausner is an American writer, comedian, actress, and podcaster. She is best known for creating, writing, and starring in the Hulu sitcom Difficult People (2015–2017), which also starred comedian Billy Eichner.
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Mariam Ghani
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- filmmakeruniversity teacherartist
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Mariam Ghani is an Afghan-American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist.
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Bill Plympton
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1968
- Occupations
- film directoranimatorscreenwriter
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Bill Plympton is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Awards-nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting with 2004's Guard Dog.
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Samuel Bayer
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- film editorfilm directorcamera operatorphotographerscreenwriter
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Samuel David Bayer is an American visual artist, cinematographer, and commercial, music video and film director. Bayer was born in Syracuse, New York. He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in Fine Arts. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1991, where he continues to live and work.
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Wally Wood
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- writereditorpencillerpublisherinker
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Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, and MAD Magazine from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and work for Warren Publishing's Creepy. He drew a few early issues of Marvel's Daredevil and established the title character's distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters Sally Forth and Cannon.
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Jimmy Diresta
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James "Jimmy" DiResta is a New York-based Maker, artist, and video producer. He enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and graduated in 1990 with a BFA degree. In 1993, he formed a now-defunct toy design company/store called "DiResta" in the East Village which created Gurglin’ Gutz, a rubber toy replicating a miniature human organ. He went on to teach at the School of Visual Arts.
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Tim Sale
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- comics artist
- Biography
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Timothy Roger Sale was an American comics artist, "best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman and for influencing depictions of the Caped Crusader in numerous films." He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb, which included both comics work and artwork for the TV series Heroes. Sale's renditions of Batman influenced modern cinematic depictions of the character, with film directors and actors directly citing Sale's work.
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Michael Cuesta
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- film directordirectorscreenwritertelevision producerfilm producer
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Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director, best known for his independent films, specially for having co-written and directed the 2001 film, L.I.E. He has directed and produced television series including Six Feet Under, Dexter, Blue Bloods and Homeland.
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Archie Goodwin
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- comics writerwriterpublisherillustrator
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Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."
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Rus Yusupov
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Rus Yusupov is a designer and tech entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder of Vine and the co-founder and CEO of HQ Trivia.
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Chris Prynoski
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- film directoranimatorexecutive producer
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Chris Prynoski is an American film and television producer, animator, and director, known for his work on TV programs such as Downtown, Metalocalypse, Freaknik: The Musical, Motorcity and Megas XLR and films such as Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
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Manuel DeLanda
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- computer scientistwriteruniversity teacherfilm directorphilosopher
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Manuel DeLanda is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
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Andrea Fraser
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- performance artistacademicvisual artistartistvideo artist
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Andrea Rose Fraser is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of Institutional Critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is currently Department Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Lorna Simpson
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- installation artistprintmakerdrawerfilmmakerphotographer
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Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.
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Lorne Lanning
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- film directorvoice actorwritervideo game developer
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Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, director, writer and voice actor. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! and Oddworld: Soulstorm.
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Kembra Pfahler
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- actordrawersingerperformance artist
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Kembra Pfahler is an American performance artist and rock musician.
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Gillian Robespierre
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Gillian Robespierre is an American director and writer, known for writing and directing the films Obvious Child and Landline.
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Herb Trimpe
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- writercomics artist
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Herbert William Trimpe was an American comics artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of the X-Men.
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Neck Face
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Neck Face is a graffiti artist known for a naïve and humorous style. His works have been shown in art galleries as well as on the streets.
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Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis
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- screenwritercomics artist
- Biography
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Kazimieras Gediminas Prapuolenis, known professionally as Kaz, is an American cartoonist, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and illustrator. In the 1980s, after attending New York City's School of the Visual Arts, he was a frequent contributor to the comic anthologies RAW and Weirdo. Since 1992, he has drawn Underworld, an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies.
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Joe Sinnott
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- drawerillustratorcomics artist
- Biography
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Joseph Leonard Sinnott was an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, from 1965 to 1981 (and briefly in the late 1980s), initially over the pencils of Jack Kirby. During his 60 years as a Marvel freelance artist and then remote worker salaried artist, Sinnott inked virtually every major title, with notable runs on The Avengers, The Defenders, and Thor.
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Phil Jimenez
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- comics writerwritercomics artistpencillerillustrator
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Phil Jimenez is an American comics artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles, and his artistry for his 2021 critically acclaimed partnership with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.
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Charles Fazzino
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- painterartistillustrator
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Charles Fazzino is an American pop artist, known for his silkscreen serigraphs in a 3D pop art style. His artwork was influenced from urban landscapes, sporting events, and celebrities.
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Peter Bagge
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- writercomics artist
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Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Neat Stuff and Hate. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on Hate. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, MAD Magazine, toonlet, Discover, and the Weekly World News, with the comic strip Adventures of Batboy. He has expressed his libertarian views in features for Reason.
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Mark Texeira
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- painterillustratorvisual artist
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Mark Texeira is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter, he broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.
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Alexa Karolinski
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- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Alexa Karolinski is a German writer, director and producer whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. She is the creator of the television drama Unorthodox (2020).
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Jerry Beck
- Occupations
- historianwriterblogger
- Biography
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Jerry Beck is an American animation historian, author, blogger, and video producer.
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Yuko Shimizu
- Occupations
- illustrator
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Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City whose work combines Japanese heritage with contemporary reference points. Works by Shimizu address a range of serious issues including sex, race, and cultural identity, but also can be light and whimsical.
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John Paul Leon
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- pencillercomics artist
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John Paul Leon was an American comic book artist, known for his work on the Milestone Comics series Static, and the Marvel Comics limited series Earth X.
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Christine Sun Kim
- Occupations
- sound artist
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Christine Sun Kim is an American sound artist based in Berlin. Working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video, Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society. Musical notation, written language, American Sign Language (ASL), and the use of the body are all recurring elements in her work. Her work has been exhibited in major cultural institutions internationally, including in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition about sound in 2013 and the Whitney Biennial in 2019. She was named a TED Fellow in both 2013 and 2015, a Director's Fellow at MIT Media Lab in 2015, and a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow in 2020.
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Molly Ostertag
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- cartoonistwriterillustratorpenciller
- Biography
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Molly Knox Ostertag is an American cartoonist and writer. Her work includes the animated series The Owl House, webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, the middle grade graphic novel series (The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, and The Midwinter Witch), and on the series Tales of the Night Watchman. She was named one of Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2021.
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Kara Vallow
- Occupations
- film producerfilm actortelevision producer
- Biography
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Kara Vallow is an American television animation producer who works with Seth MacFarlane on the four television series produced by Fuzzy Door Productions for Fox, Family Guy, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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Tom Sito
- Occupations
- television directorscreenwritercharacter animator
- Biography
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Tom Sito is an American animator, animation historian and teacher. He is currently a Professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division. In 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.
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Jonathan Rado
- Occupations
- DJ producermusician
- Biography
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Jonathan Rado is an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as a multi-instrumentalist in the indie rock duo Foxygen. Rado is a native of Westlake Village, California, where he formed Foxygen with his classmate Sam France in 2005.
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Michael Avedon
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Michael Patrick Avedon is an American photographer living in New York City. Avedon works commercially as a fashion photographer and makes portraits for his personal work – including an ongoing series of artists in their studios.
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Patrick McDonnell
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- writerillustratorcomics artist
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Patrick McDonnell is a cartoonist, author, and playwright. He is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts, which follows the adventures of a dog and a cat, that has been syndicated since 1994. Prior to creating Mutts, he was a prolific magazine illustrator, and would frequently include a dog in the backgrounds of his drawings.
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John Holmstrom
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- cartoonistwritercomics artist
- Biography
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John Holmstrom is an American underground cartoonist and writer. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe (published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine from 1975 to 1984).
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ZHC
- Occupations
- YouTuberpainter
- Biography
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Zachary Hsieh, known online as ZHC, is an American YouTuber. He is known for his drawing and custom art challenge videos.
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Stanley Greene
- Occupations
- visual artistphotojournalistfashion photographerpainterwar photographer
- Biography
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Stanley Greene was an American photojournalist.
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Hanoch Piven
- Occupations
- artistillustrator
- Biography
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Hanoch Piven is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.
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Drew Friedman
- Occupations
- cartoonistcomics artist
- Biography
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Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s, he switched to painting.
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Angelina Nikonova
- Occupations
- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Angelina Yurevna Nikonova is a Russian filmmaker, script writer and film producer.
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Louise Fili
- Occupations
- graphic designertypographerdesigner
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Louise Fili, born on April 12, 1951, is an American graphic designer renowned for her adept use of typography and commitment to quality design. Her artistic inspiration derives from her passion for Italy, Modernism, and European Art Deco styles. Acknowledged as a trailblazer in the postmodern revival of historical styles in book jacket design, Fili seamlessly blends historic typography with contemporary colors and compositions. Commencing her career in the publishing industry, Fili gained prominence for her robust typographic approach, crafting nearly 2,000 book jackets during her tenure with Random House. Upon establishing her own design studio, she has directed her focus towards restaurant identity, food-related logos, and packaging.
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John Rocco
- Occupations
- writerillustrator
- Biography
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Christopher John Rocco, simply known as John Rocco is an American illustrator of book covers and children's books. He is best known for illustrating the covers of books in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is the sole creator of some children's picture books.
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Dash Shaw
- Occupations
- cartoonistvisual artistdraweranimator
- Biography
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Dash Shaw is an American comic book writer/artist and animator. He is the author of the graphic novels Cosplayers, Doctors, New School, and Bottomless Belly Button, published by Fantagraphics. Additionally, Shaw has written Love Eats Brains published by Odd God Press, GardenHead published by Meathaus, The Mother's Mouth published by Alternative Comics, and BodyWorld published by Pantheon Books.
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Alexis Rockman
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering. He has exhibited his work in the United States since 1985, including a 2004 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, and internationally since 1989. He lives with his wife, Dorothy Spears in Warren, CT and NYC.
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Alan Robert
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposercomics artist
- Biography
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Alan Robert is an American musician and comic book creator, known as the bassist for the alternative metal band Life of Agony, his work on his graphic novels Wire Hangers, Crawl to Me and Killogy, as well as his horror-themed adult coloring book series The Beauty of Horror.
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Miguel Chevalier
- Occupations
- artistmultimedia artist
- Biography
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Miguel Chevalier is a French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.
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Kate Shepherd
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Kate Shepherd is an American artist based in New York City.
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Felicia Bond
- Occupations
- children's illustratorchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Felicia Bond is an American writer and illustrator of numerous books for children. She is the illustrator of all the If You Give... series written by Laura Numeroff and published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
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Mark Bodé
- Occupations
- tattoo artistcartoonistcomics artist
- Biography
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Mark Bodé is an American cartoonist. The son of underground comics legend Vaughn Bodē, Mark shares the Bodē family style and perpetuates many of his late fathers creations as well as his own works. He is best known for his work on Cobalt-60, Miami Mice, and The Lizard of Oz. Bodé has also worked for Heavy Metal magazine and on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Tomer Hanuka
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- cartoonistillustrator
- Biography
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Tomer Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and cartoonist.
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Dave Roman
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- writercomics artisteditorpencillerillustrator
- Biography
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Dave Roman is an American writer and artist of webcomics and comics.
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Noah Kalina
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- In 2006 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography
- Occupations
- artistphotographer
- Biography
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Noah Kalina is an American art photographer. Much of Kalina's work focuses on the passage of time including his well-known project Everyday which shows the aging of a human. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Monocle, Businessweek, Nylon, Esquire, Le Monde, and Interview, among others.
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Ben Katchor
- Occupations
- comics artistcomics writercartoonistlibrettist
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Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."
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Gail Anderson
- Occupations
- graphic designerpostage stamp designerwriter
- Biography
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Gail Anderson is an American graphic designer, writer, and educator known for her typographic skill, hand-lettering and poster design.
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Willie Cole
- Occupations
- installation artistprintmakervisual artist
- Biography
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Willie Cole is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist. His work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and African-American imagery. He also has used Dada’s readymades and Surrealism’s transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks.
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Alex Saviuk
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- drawerillustratorcomics artist
- Biography
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Alex Saviuk is an American comics artist primarily known for his work on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
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Alex Robinson
- Occupations
- cartoonistwritercomics artistdrawerillustrator
- Biography
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Alex Robinson is an American comic book writer and artist.
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Aaron Augenblick
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- comics artistfilm directorcartoonisttelevision produceranimator
- Biography
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Aaron Augenblick is an American animator, director, and producer. He is the founder of Augenblick Studios, known for his work on Ugly Americans, Superjail!, Wonder Showzen, and Golden Age.
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Bill Gallo
- Occupations
- cartoonist
- Biography
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Bill Gallo was an American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, known for his cartoons about sports, for the New York Daily News.
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Michal Na'aman
- Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1978-1980
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Michal Na'aman, is an Israeli painter. From the point of view of values, her work is characterized as conceptual art and deals with such subjects as the limitations of language and sight, the possibilities for expression, and gender issues. Using the techniques of collage, Na'aman has created works that examine the visual way of thinking as opposed to the verbal way of thinking. In 2014 she was awarded the Israel Prize for Plastic Arts for her work.
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Ran Morin
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Ran Morin is an Israeli artist, known for his statues involving full-sized living trees. Much of his work is found in Israel, notably the Olive Tree and surrounding park on the Ramat Rachel kibbutz. He currently lives in New York.
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Penelope Umbrico
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.
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James Sturm
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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James Sturm is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.
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Steve Stiles
- Years
- 1943-2020 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- cartoonistwriter
- Biography
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Stephen Willis Stiles was an American cartoonist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.
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Joshua Citarella
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Joshua Citarella is an artist and Twitch streamer from New York City who studies online communities.
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Chrissy Conant
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Chrissy Conant is an American artist who created works such as Chrissy Caviar and Chrissy Skin Rug. Her BioArt works have aroused strong responses and have been a basis for discussions of the body, art, and ethics.
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Marc Scarpa
- Occupations
- television producermultimedia artist
- Biography
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Marc Scarpa is an American entrepreneur, producer and director specializing in live participatory media. He is the executive board member and the founding New York Chair of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council and a recipient of the Marc A. Levey distinguished service award. Scarpa is the CEO and founder of Definance Media. Scarpa has received a Webby Award in 2010 for Best Event / Live Webcast for his work on the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, a Cannes Bronze Lion for Branded Content and Entertainment for the X Factor Pepsi Digital Preshow and Xtra Factor App and four Social TV Awards including Best of Show for X Factor Pepsi Digital Preshow and Xtra Factor App. Additionally, he has been a panelist for conferences such as NATPE, X-Summit, LTE North America, Digital Hollywood and Canadian Music Week among others.
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Baruch Nachshon
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Baruch Nachshon was an Israeli artist and mystic.
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Tom Feelings
- Occupations
- writercaricaturistillustratorartist
- Biography
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Tom Feelings was an artist, cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. He focused on the African-American experience in his work. His most famous book is The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo.
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Bob Wiacek
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- artistwritercomics artistcartoonistinker
- Biography
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Bob Wiacek is an American comic book artist and writer, working primarily as an inker.
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Marisa Acocella Marchetto
- Occupations
- cartoonistnovelist
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Marisa Acocella is an American cartoonist. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling graphic novel Ann Tenna, the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen, and Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? She is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker and a columnist for W magazine's website. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Farel Dalrymple
- Occupations
- graphic artistcartoonistvisual artistillustrator
- Biography
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Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
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Geoffrey Notkin
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Geoffrey Notkin is an American actor, author, and entrepreneur. Notkin is known as one of the hosts of Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series from Science Channel, which ran for three seasons. He is the president of the National Space Society, and holds a seat on the National Space Society Board of Governors. He is a long-time member of The Explorer's Club. In 2013, Notkin's Twitter account was nominated for a Shorty Award, honoring the best in social media. Notkin has also been interviewed on the Today show, Coast to Coast, and NASA Edge TV, and is a regular guest speaker at TusCon, an intimate science fiction, fantasy, and horror convention held annually in Tucson, Arizona.
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Josh Adams
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- artistcomics artist
- Biography
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Josh Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his work on House of Mystery for DC Comics, as well as design work for shows on the Syfy Channel. Josh Adams is also the youngest of comic book veteran Neal Adams's three sons. Adams' two older brothers, Jason and Joel, are also artists who work in commercial sculpture and comic book illustration, respectively.
