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MFA Students & Alumni

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students speaking with teacher in classroom
students speaking with teacher in classroom
students speaking with teacher in classroom
students speaking with teacher in classroom
students speaking with teacher in classroom

Current Students

Class of 2027

Wej Aboalkhoyour

Beca Acosta

Layla Al Ammari

Sharri Alosaimi

Aruua Alsalami

Julio Cardenas Arana

Fernan Bilik

Elendë Connor

Nia Crutcher

Katie Dobberpuhl

Alexa Eisner

Ellen Ericson

Ethan Friedberg

noelle fríes

Alissa Green

Chuyoun Hughes

Eujin Hwang

Laura Lambuth

Christina Lum

Sarah Mak

Andreas Marquart

Nora Nucullaj

Gijin Park

Havi Peterson

Shaan Ken Rao

Sally Rifkin

Marja Saleva

Megan Ulrich

Paige Warmington

Zach Weber

Raven White

Samaira Wilson

Kyra “Wolf” Wolfenbarger

Stacy Youn

Montaysia Yuneek

Class of 2026

Qudir Ayodele

Jackson Catlett

Shuyi Chen

Phoebe Youn Jung Choi

Zhongxin Fang

Lisa Giordano

Jay Guo

Julie Jewon Huh

Nawon Kim

Minji Kim

Ji Yoon Koo

Malu Laet

Hannah Law

Sammi Levine

Yongxi Lin

Farrell Mason-Brown

Ben Miller

Tiffany Miller

Marie Moeller

Morgan O’Connell

Caroline O’Grady

Jessi Olarsch

Sefa Ozdogan

Tanvi Shaha

Samson Shofoluwe

Lo Smith

Joris van Helmond

Wei Yuan Wang

Rylee Watkins

Rainy Yuchen Wei

Jennings Zheming Yang

Vanessa Yang

Leon Zhan

Ryan Zogheb

MFA Alumni

Fine Arts Alumni thrive. Graduates have been accepted into prestigious residencies such as the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture; Black Rock, Senegal; MacDowell Colony; the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program; the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Siena Art Institute; and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Our alumni have exhibited at museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA, along with galleries such as Miguel Abreu, James Cohan, Marianne Boesky, Lyles & King, Lehmann Maupin, Matthew Marks, Minus Space, Pierogi, and Jack Tilton. 

They have received grants from around the world such as Anonymous Was A Woman, Banditto Art Award, Creative Capital, the Dedalus Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Their work is represented in international public and private collections, including the Guggenheim Museum; the Studio Museum of Harlem; the National Gallery; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Panza Collection. 

Graduates have careers as professors at schools such as Hunter College, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Cooper Union, and Columbia University. Many also find their place in the world as writers, gallerists, and curators, or working in the community as social justice advocates, educators, and change-makers. Others forge their own paths and become innovators in many emerging creative fields.

Graduating from our Fine Arts MFA program is just the beginning!

Please view our Alumni work below and visit here for information about our special alumni programming at the Untitled Art Fair.

2025

Zakariya Abdul-Qadir 

Dana-Marie Bullock 

Yilin Chen

Yeonji Chung 

Monique Kevita Edwards

kate evans 

Jay

Danielle Gadus 

Eric Geithner

Eliza Gooding 

Tony Griego 

Claire Heidinger 

Herok

Rob Hill Art

Yeon Jeong 

Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu 

William Kim

Ariadne Manuel 

Isabelle Friedrich McTwigan 

Molly Miller 

Shivani Mithbaokar 

Yerang Moon 

Mouet 

HYUN

Siha Park 

Morgan Petitpas 

K Rawald 

Greta Schneider 

Avery Schuster 

Alice Minghui Shi 

Leda Tsoutreli 

Agnes Questionmark 

Yedda Ye

Ayoung Yoo

Wei Yuan 

2025 MFA Thesis Catalogue:

2024

Obadah Aljefri 

Imogen Aukland 

Amanda Baker 

Jake Bernstein 

Elaine Xuhong Chen

Emelia Gertner 

Gabriel Gibbs 

Elizabeth Hackenberg 

Billy Hawkins 

Aliza Katzman 

Angie Kim 

Nao Kondo 

Haoyu Niu 

Mac Pukuka 

Kyung Yeon Kim 

Eun Yong Lee 

Lara Lee 

Seungheon Lee 

Deona Lizette 

Sarah Martin-Nuss 

Jalen “Nish” McNish 

Katie Heller Saltoun

Nature Shankar 

Nico Sun 

Lu W

Suzanne Watters 

Rebecca Wu 

Olivia Zabludowicz 

Chang Zhang

Huahua Zhu

2023

Utong Aoieong

Victoria Arthur

Jenna Arvelo

Jimin Baek

Alexander Brewington

Cameron Burgoyne

Note Davis- Barney

Yu Cheng

Grace Einfeld

Daniel Pravit Fethke

Michelle Frick

Mengyu Han

Shaun Haugen

Noormah Jamal

Jimi Kabela

Tim Kastelijns

Niousha Kiarashi

Moss Loke O’Connor

Katherine McElhiney

Longyuan Miao

Griffin Miller

Gonzalo Miñano Paz

Sonja Petermann

Blair Peters

Miranda Ratner

Lauren Rauber

William Richmond

Merlin Sabal

Monica Srivastava

Rodrigo Tafur

Ethan Tasa

Olivia Terian

nikki terry

Joe Turpin

Thomas Tustin

Samuel Waxman

Sarah Wang Pitts

Chang Xu

Qiaosen Yang

Shiyu Zhang

Sara Zielinski

2022

Ty Allen 

Daliah Lina Ammar

Kirsten Batten-Leach

Taylor Bielecki 

Jack Kohler Byers

Khaska Dottin 

Nazli Efe 

Elle Gillette

Justice

Oidie Kuijpers 

Hiu Ching Leung 

Elliot Lovegrove 

Troy Medinis 

Samantha Morris 

Debo Mouloudji 

Seyhr A. Qayum 

Rob Redding 

Mad Riande 

Xiangni Song 

Rebecca Jean Sutton

Noah Tavlin 

Amy Ungricht 

Yu Ching Wang 

2021

Abhishek Tuiwala

Austin Cruz Sapién

Weijia Li

Bethanya Abebe

Buwei Hu

Chloe Chen

Xiangshu Zhang 

Dalya Bain

Yanqing Pei

Joshua Blair-Boger

Elle Ellinger

Monifa Mayo

Natalia Petkov

Yichen Zhou

Noah Tavlin

Taylor Dean

Abby Zhang

Xiyun Xu

2020

Ziping Wang

Angelica Yudasto

Yaw Owusu

Talia Tamar

Spencer Harris

So Ye Oh

Shibei Xu

Allie Stabile

Caito Stewart

Alyssa Thornton

Nicholas DePass

Meirav Zaks

Kosuke Kawahara

Katie Croft

Joy Perry Lincer

Josh Meillier

Jinyong Choi

Jennifer Ho

Jackie Slanley

Hannah Celli

Emmett Metier

Duff Norris

Dewy

Dasol Hong

Chao Wang

Cassie Reeder

Ambrus Gero

Amanda Wall

Amber Peck

Rodrigo Jimenez-Ortega

Robert Scheirer 

2019

Alanna Fields

Allen Ball

Alp Erdem Oz

Aomi Kikuchi

Aubrey Roemer

Bradley Ward

Brian Napier

Brittney Lyons

Camille McNally

Chaewon Moon

Chutian Shu

Connie Fu

Daniel Barragan

Danil Gertman

Dayeon Kim

Devin B. Johnson

Devin Utah

Randy Emmanuel Castillo

Erik Wangsvick

Fernanda Carvalho

George Skoufas

Guanqi Chen

Hank Ehrenfried

Isabelle Brourman

Jamaal Peterman

Jaee Sumter 

Jean Oh

Jessica Niello White

Ji Won Rhie

Katreen Sorokina

Lizzy Lunday

Madeline Rupard

Maria Elizabeth Janasz

Mathilde van Nuffel d’Heynsbroeck

Michele Rushfeldt

Mitsuyo Okada

Monika Rostvold

Neta Bar Zion

Phillip Lavelle

Santiago Giralda 

Shinhee Yu

Shohei Miyachi

2018

Abby Cheney

Kate Butler

Naomi Frank

Sheila Lam

Min Sun Lee

Devi Loftus

Yuzhe Zhong

Nick LaPole

Bárbara Oettinger

Bochun Cheng

Yen Yen Chou

Songyang Liang

Courtney Dudley

David Jacaruso

Edouard Ng

Hongyu Pu

Jake Szeligowski

Ji Won Sim

Jill Brandwein

Yeonho Jung

Katelynn Maifusco

Kristyn McKinney

Leon Liang

Luisa Valderrama

Noel Caban

Rachel Gisela Cohen

Sojung Kim

Weiran Sun

2017

Allie Kelley

Anita Kroo

Annalisa Barron

Cedric Yon

Chanah Haddad

Chip McCall

Chia-Ying Wang

Drake LaBry

Ella Desmond

Gwen Shockey

Hannah Berry

Hyomin Kwon

Hyunjung Ahn

Hyunjung Rhee

Jack White

Jiang Ye

Juan Diego Prieto

Junchen Huang

Lauren Williams

Lia Kim Farnsworth

Linda Lauro-Lazin

Megan Porpeglia

Rosie Quick

Sabetty Heyaime

Sarbani Ghosh

Taylor M. Kennedy

Yingqian Cao

Zhang Xiaochuan

2016

Alana MacDougall

Alexandra Price

Allison Yano

Annette Knol

Benjamin Nurgenc

Bonam Kim

Brittany Baldwin

Ceci Mengyin Wang

Djavan Nascimento

Evan English

Eun Jin Wang

Guy Nelson

HC Huynh

Isaac Kim

Janelle Junn

Jessica Forrestal

Joe Poon

Jung Lee

KJ Cooksey

Ken Volk

Lan Chunghsuan

Lea Patrice Fales

Maggie Haslam

Mariana Gomez

Mark Gens

Megan Konkel

Minaa Mohsin

Nuno Henrique

Paul Gisbrecht

Rachel Chaldu

Soo Yun

Tal Gilboa & Elizabeth Kleberg

Valeria Lombo

Yen Jui

Yesuk Seo

2015

Ada Potter

Alex Forestier

Alex Lombard

Alexandra Kostakis

Al Yaqoub Aseel

Anya Hamman

Ayesha Khan

Bryan Hutchison

Caroline Larsen

Daniel Levinson

Dogan Arslanoglu

Feng Guo

Haley Allen

Han Chengxun

Ian Schwartz

Jihye Baek

Jinhwa Kim

JX Marie

Kevin Dudley

Kiseob Kim

Lana Abu-Shamat

Lara Nasser

Lesley Peterson

Manuel Gomez

Matt Kleberg

Roman Kalinovski

Sahar Safarian

Suhee Kang

Tal Barel

Yasmeen Abdallah

2014

Kelly Larsen

Jessica Adams

Colombina Zamponi

Eugenia D’Ambrosio

Amenda Schmidt

Whitney Ramage

Min Ji Suh

Heui Tae Yoon

Rhea Eunjoo In

Polixeni Theodorou

Mischa Heintze

Serry Park

Je Ji

Yipei Wen

Tiffany McCullough

Krista LaBella

Jes Hughes

Raquel Du Toit 

Matthew Zaccari

Andy Wellington

Adrian Tone

Constance Slaughter

Julie Park

Sky Yoon

Gerardo Gonzalez

Louise Eastman

Seyoung Chung

Anna Shuykeylo

Nancy Elsaman

Bianca Hildenbrand 

Nazanin Noroozi 

Christina De Phil

Fabiana Assenza

Alexis Fidetzis 

Yenim Park

Lindsay Dye

Matt Jones

Yasunari Izaki 

2013

Felix Aarts

Loney Abrams

Rabia Ajaz

Lynn Sung Hae Baik

Melissa Beck

Jesse Gammage

Xiaojun Gao

Jean Paul Gomez

Johanna Hamm

Judith Heiden

Raul Hott

Courtney Hughes

Levi Jackson

Jiyoung Jang

Young Min Kim

Mary Kudlak

Tao Kulczycki

Drew Malbin

Macklen Mayse

Amy Mathis

Ruth Mora

Paula Elena Abreu Pita

Lucia Pedi

Erik Plambeck

Nelson Plaza

Shahpour Mahmoud Pouyan

Erica Quinn

Naroa Lizar Redrado

Marika Robak

Patrick Rowe

Eric Rue

Johnny Stanish

Karla Stingerstein

Ian Swanson

Erica Terluin

Gina Whitt

Brian Wittmuss

Shihori Yamamoto

Alexandra Zucker

2012

Anna Sorenson

Anthony Palocci Jr.

DJ Perera

Jessica Rae Ecker

Kevin William Reed

KyungAh Choi

Matthew Pisacano

Minah Baek

Nick Naber

Polly Shindler

Rebecca Zeh

Sheena Rae Dowling