- Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Sol Lewitt
Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. His media were predominantly painting, drawing, and structures (a term he preferred in opposition to sculpture). He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from "Wall Drawings", over 1200 of which have been executed, … - Keith Haring
Keith Haring was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. From 1976 to 1978 he studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh. Keith moved to New York City where he was greatly inspired by the graffiti art, … - Paula Scher
Paula Scher (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Recordings, before moving into art direction for magazines. She worked at Time Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. - James Jean
James Jean is an award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He was born in Taiwan in 1979, raised in New Jersey, and educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon graduating in 2001, he quickly became an acclaimed cover artist for DC Comics, garnering three consecutive Eisner awards, two Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the Society of Illustrators of LA, and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of NY. - Phil Jimenez
Philip "Phil" Jimenez (born July 12, 1970) is an American comic book writer, artist and penciller. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and later Orange County, California, he moved to New York City to attend college at the School of Visual Arts. He began working at DC Comics when he was 21; his first published work was 4 pages in the DC miniseries "War of the Gods" (1991). - Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard (1942 -) is a Polish-American abstract sculptor. Born in a German refugee camp, she emigrated to Connecticut with her family in 1950, and later studied art at Columbia University. There, she developed her distinctive style: folded, organic forms constructed from sawn and chiseled cedar beams, sometimes painted or blackened with graphite. Her sculptures are frequently monumental in scale and exhibited outdoors. - Jack Endewelt
Jack Endewelt (1935 - 2006) was an illustrator. He was born in New York and illustrated books and advertisements. Endewelt began at School of Visual Arts in 1957, completing course work for his certificate in 1960 and his degree in 1984. In 1968, he was appointed to the faculty and then became Co-Chair of the Media Arts Department in 1987 and Chair of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department in 1991. He was married to Barbara Gilbert. - Matt Madden
Matt Madden (born 1968 in New York City) is a U.S. comic book writer and artist. He is best known for original alternative comics, for his coloring work in traditional comics, and for the textbook "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style", a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style". He also teaches comics at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University - Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (born January 31, 1945 Toledo, Ohio) is an influential American conceptual artist. Kosuth studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work generally strives to explore the nature of art, focusing on ideas at the fringe of art rather than on producing art "per se". - Peter Max
Peter Max (born October 19, 1937 as Peter Finkelstein) is an American Pop artist. He was born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Shanghai, China and in Israel before his family settled in the United States in 1953. The young artist trained in New York at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. He adopted the name "Max" from another student and aspiring artist in the Art Student's League (Max Oppenheim, born NYC in 1930). - Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). - Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (Born 1960-) is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as "Guarded Conditions" and "Square Deal". Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex. In 2007, Simpson had a 20-year retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf (born in 1958, in Hollywood, California) is an American pianter. The artist received his B.F.A in 1980 at the School of Visual Arts located in New York City. Scharf's works consist of popular culture based shows with made up science related backgrounds. Scharf uses popular images that he grew in a trash can, such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons. The reason Scharf uses cartoon images in his art work is to bring popular culture in the fine arts. - Ed Benguiat
Ed Benguiat (born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an influential American typographer. He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic. He also designed logotypes for "The New York Times", "Playboy", "Sports Illustrated", and many others. Benguiat teaches at the School of Visual Arts in his native New York. - Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of "The New Yorker". In the early 1950s, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the "New York Daily News", and "Newsday". - Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy. In the mid-80s, she studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is characterized by elongated, slender figures with androgynous features which at times resemble fashion illustration. - James Sturm
James Sturm is an American cartoonist, Xeric Award-winner, 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. Sturm became a big fan of comics as a child, starting with "Peanuts". - Robert Weaver
Robert Weaver (1924 - 1994) was an American illustrator who was considered the pioneer of a contemporary approach to the field that began in the 1950s. Beginning in 1952, he embarked on a mission to combine the visual ideas found in fine art with the responsibility of journalist. At the time, most practitioners of illustration were expected to paint and draw for advertising and magazine assignments with artwork that was conservative, idealized and saccharine. - Jakob Trollbäck
Jakob Trollbäck is the founder and creative director of New York-based creative studio Trollbäck + Company. The Swedish self-taught designer is an acknowledged industry leader in branding and motion graphics design, best known for his clean, consistent and concept-driven design. Born and raised in Stockholm, the former DJ saw a move to New York in the early nineties. After several years at R/GA, Jakob founded Trollbäck + Company with his wife Lisa in 1999. - Tomer Hanuka
Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist Tomer Hanuka was born in Israel. At age twenty-two, after completing three years of mandatory Army service, he moved to New York City. Following his graduation from the School of Visual Arts he quickly became a regular contributor to many national magazines. His clients include Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Spin, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, and Saatchi & Saatchi. - Alexis Rockman
Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings depicting the precarious relationship between man and nature. He has been exhibiting his work internationally since 1985, when he received a BFA in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts. His artworks are information-rich depictions of how our culture perceives and interacts with plants and animals, and the role culture plays in influencing the direction of natural history. - Inka Essenhigh
Inka Essenhigh is a painter based in New York. Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio (1991) and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). Essenhigh’s work has been shown widely internationally at galleries and museums including SMAK in Belgium, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de Sao Paulo, SITE Santa Fe, MOMA in New York, and The Royal Academy in London. - Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (pronounced juh-kee-no) (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular movies, television series and video games. His scores are notable for their usage of brass. He attended the Evening Division at the Juilliard School; as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he acquired a degree in film production and a minor degree in History. - Archie Goodwin
Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived in many small towns along the Kansas/Missouri border including Coffeyville. But he considered Tulsa, Oklahoma—where he spent his teen years at Will Rogers High School and in used magazine stores searching for EC Comics—as his true hometown. He moved to New York City to attend classes at what became the School of Visual Arts, … - Katie Salen
Katie Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and design educator. She has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. Salen was one of the animators who worked on the film Waking Life, directed by Richard Linklater and produced with Bob Sabiston's software. - Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (born 1969) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She received her high school diploma from the Milton Academy, her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA from New York's School of Visual... - Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor. Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1968, she then went to New York where she studied for her masters at Hunter College where she was taught and supervised by Robert Morris, she graduated in 1971. Her early sculptures were site specific and were largely made from wood and stone, in the 1980s she began to use steel. - Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, North America) is a former prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. According to "Curve" magazine, Sprinkle, who is bisexual, … - Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci (born 1971, Israel) is an American photographer. She lives in New York City and is a member of the Faculty in Photography, School of Visual Arts in New York. Her photographs take the viewer into the details of her surroundings, her family life and her home. Carucci takes the viewer into a very private part of her world. Marks on a body from bed sheets after waking, the imprint of a zipper on skin looks familiar and beautiful, … - Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) in Jersey City,New Jersey. Lasker is an American artist who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Lasker lives and works in New York City, New York. Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant. - Chris Wedge
Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20 1957 in Binghamton, New York) is an American film director, best known for the films "Ice Age" and "Robots". - Jay Kennedy
Jay Malcolm Kennedy (April 18 1956 - March 15 2007) joined King Features Syndicate in 1988 as deputy comics editor and became comics editor one year later. He was named editor-in-chief in 1997. After studying sculpting and conceptual art in New York at the School of Visual Arts, Kennedy graduated with a sociology degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin he was an active member of the Pail & Shovel Party, … - Aleksandra Mir
Aleksandra Mir (b.1967, Lubin, Poland) is an artist based in New York City and Palermo, Sicily. She has Swedish citizenship. Mir studied Communication and Media Studies at Schillerska/Gothenburg University (1986-1987) and attained her BFA in Media Arts (1992) from the School of Visual Arts in New York before completing her post graduate work in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1996. - Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is a game designer and the co-founder and CEO of gameLab, a computer game development company, which is known for the game "Diner Dash". Each year Zimmerman hosts the Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference. He is also the co-author of 4 books including "Rules of Play" with Katie Salen, which was published in November 2004. He has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, Parsons School of Design, … - Olivia de Berardinis
Olivia de Berardinis (b. 1948) is an American painter of pin-up art and erotic art. She attended the New York School of Visual Arts, and became involved in the minimalist art movement while there. She began drawing and painting pin-ups in the mid 1970s, then began painting erotic fantasies for men's magazines. Olivia De Berardinis was born in California in 1948 but spent most of her childhood on the East Coast. - Carlos Saldanha
Carlos Saldanha (born January 24, 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is the director of "Ice Age 2"(2006), and the co-director of "Ice Age"(2002) and "Robots"(2005). He received an MFA in computer art from the School of Visual Arts in 1993. - Tim Sale
Tim Sale (born 1956 in Ithaca, New York) is an American Eisner Award winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with Jeph Loeb. - Joey Cavalieri
Joey Cavalieri is a writer who has also served as an editor in the comic book field. His writing credits include "The Huntress", "The Oz-Wonderland War", "The Flash", and "World's Finest Comics" series, all from DC. He first joined DC full-time in 1982 after working three years as a freelancer. He was group editor of the Marvel 2099 series from 1992 until 1996 before returning to DC.
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