Albee, Becca
Beckwith, Patterson
Chiang, Peggy
Fudge, Carl
Fuentes, Leopold
Netzer, Sylvia
Thayer, Tom
Albee, Becca
Becca Albee
(on leave Fall 2023 & Spring 2024)
Professor
Photography
Becca Albee‘s work includes photography, sculpture, video, and performance. Albee’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Situations, New York, NY; Et al., San Francisco, CA; 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA; and group exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC; and Art in General, Brooklyn, NY. Fellowships and residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Fundación Botín, Artlink at Fort Dunree, Blue Mountain Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Albee received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at The City College of New York, CUNY.
Beckwith, Patterson
Patterson Beckwith
Lecturer
Photography
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Patterson Beckwith is an artist whose work involves the making of photographs, sculptures, videos and performances. He holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Beckwith was a member of the collaborative group Art Club 2000, which was founded in 1992. The group mounted seven yearly exhibits at American Fine Arts, Co from 1993-1999 and had a retrospective exhibition at Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, in 2000, and an exhibition in 2008 in London at Wolfgang Tillman’s “Between Bridges” gallery. His editorial photography has appeared in Artforum, Purple, Index, Paper, and Vice magazine. Beckwith’s solo exhibitions include American Fine Arts, Co NYC (2002 and 2004;) Daniel Hug Gallery, 2006 and Mesler + Hug Los Angeles, 2009. His photo essay, “Bananas For Moholy-Nagy”, is the subject of a monograph of the same title published in 2010 by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beckwith’s work has appeared recently at the Tate Modern in London, the Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the New Museum for Contemporary art in New York.
Chiang, Peggy
Peggy Chiang
Assistant Professor
Sculpture
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Peggy Chiang received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Rutgers University. Recent exhibitions include The Mirror at Current Space (Baltimore, MD), Ventriloquist at Evening Hours (New York, NY) and R.I.P. at Rope (Baltimore, MD).
Fudge, Carl
Carl Fudge
Assistant Professor
Director of MFA in Studio Art
Printmaking
Carl fudge’s work incorporates printmaking, painting, and recently sculpture. His work has been exhibited extensively, both nationally and Internationally. Museum show venues include The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Seattle Museum, The Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Royal Academy, London, The Seiji Togo Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Japan, The Whanki Museum, Seoul, South Korea and The Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea among others.
He is represented in New York by Ronald Feldman Gallery and by Gallerie Takako Richard in Paris, France.
Fuentes, Leopold
Leopold Fuentes
Assistant Professor
Painting and Drawing
Leo Fuentes’s artwork involves diverse materials on wood and other alternative painting surfaces. The content of his work investigates the ironically counterproductive aspects of technology as it alters and deforms the earth. He holds an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. He also studied at California State University, Los Angeles and Academia San Carlos/UNAM, Mexico City. His exhibitions include The Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Reese Bullen Gallery, Arcata, CA, The Prague Art Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, Museo Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico, Kobe Municipal Gallery, Kobe, Japan, Mercer Gallery, NY, National Academy Museum, NY, Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY, and Albany State Museum, NY.
Netzer, Sylvia
Sylvia Netzer
(on leave Fall 2023 & Spring 2024)
Professor
Ceramics
Sylvia Netzer has had several recent one-person exhibitions: Disturbing, 2003, Appetites, 2004, and Hopeful Monsters, 2007. She has participated in many group shows, including the Fat Attitudes show at Columbia University, the encaustic exhibition at William Paterson College, and the auction for the Watermill Center for Arts and Humanities. She had a residency at the Glen Gerry Brick factory in York, Pennsylvania in 2006, and in 2007 she co-curated an exhibition, Women Touch: Ceramics at A.I.R. Gallery. She also curated several shows at Gallery 128 on the Lower East Side and at A.I.R. Gallery and was included in “One True Thing” at the A.I.R. and Putney School, Vermont, curated by Dena Muller. She was twice-nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant, 2005 and 2007, and for the annual exhibition of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2006. She teaches courses in all areas of ceramics, on the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Thayer, Tom
Tom Thayer
Professor
Chair, Art Department
Painting, Drawing & Foundation
Tom Thayer has performed and exhibited his multimedia works at The Kitchen and The Museum of Modern Art and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial exhibition. He has recently exhibited at Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Loong Mah, New York, NY; Analog Diary, Beacon, NY; Stations, Berlin; Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Japan; and WallRiss Gallery, Fribourg, Switzerland. Thayer is a Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Diverse Media at The City College of New York, CUNY, where he is Chair of the Art Department.
Electronic Design and Multimedia
Birch, Phillip
He, Sherry Muyuan
Navab, Nassem
Newton-Katz, Pilar
Weintraub, Annette
Birch, Phillip
Phillip Birch
Assistant Professor
Phillip Birch works with artificial intelligence, animation, and sculpture to build simulated environments and games. Their work focuses on disability theory and autoimmune disease within the intersection of digital surveillance and consent. Phillip’s animations and games play with experimental forms of locomotion and coding to propose alternate forms of movement and being. They have a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College. Phillip has exhibited at Sculpture Center, NY, Pioneer Works, NY, MOMOK, Vienna, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, and the Servais Family Collection, Brussels.
He, Sherry Muyuan
Sherry Muyuan He
Assistant Professor
Internship Coordinator
Sherry Muyuan He holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She also graduated from Macalester College with a major in Studio Art and a minor in Music. Her main research focuses on making difficult information accessible to people of various backgrounds through an interdisciplinary design approach. She has exhibited extensively in the United States, including a solo exhibition at the Soo Visual Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. At CCNY, Sherry plans to continue making art classes tasty (fun), chewy (informative) and spicy (challenging).
Navab, Nassem
Naseem Navab
Assistant Professor,
web and creative coding
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Informed by her Iranian American identity, CCNY Assistant Professor and New Media artist Nassem Navab critically engages with a wide array of social issues, from the policing of women’s bodies, to self-expression and identity. In her most recent work “Zanan” are 3D printed figurines of young hijabi women in strong poses, wearing their hijab with pride while keeping their unique identity. She works in various mediums from 3D modeling, video, sound and photography. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona and is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arizona. Navab received her BA in Interdisciplinary Computing Arts and Media from University of California, San Diego in 2014. In 2016, she presented her work at the State Center for the Arts in Tijuana (CEART Tijuana), Mexico. Navab has been part of a traveling group show Someone To Ride The River With, which has shown at various art galleries in the Southwest including Lionel Rombach Gallery (UofA, Tucson, AZ), Harry Wood Gallery (ASU, Tempe, AZ) and CFA Downtown Studio (NMU, Albuquerque, NM).
Newton-Katz, Pilar
Pilar Newton-Katz
Assistant Professor, EDM Program Director
Animation
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Assistant Professor Pilar Newton received her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design as a Film and Animation Major. She went on to get her start working on The Cartoon Network’s “Courage the Cowardly Dog,” and on MTV’s “Daria”. She has since contributed work to companies such as Nickelodeon, Homer Learning and Sirius Thinking, among others.
She has recently received her MFA in Visual Narrative from the School of Visual Arts.
This fall Professor Pilar Newton will be teaching Art 39528 2D Animation Principles and Art 49528 Topics in Animation, a class with a concentration in animating a completed film festival-ready animated short film.
This year Professor Pilar Newton released a book of her memoir comics, is working on completing an independent film and is working on bringing back the Animation Extravaganza, an annual screening of CCNY student’s work.
This is her 7th year teaching at CCNY, she is thrilled to be continuing her mission of bringing the love of animation to CCNY and now working with her colleagues in a fulltime capacity.
Weintraub, Annette
Annette Weintraub
Professor Emeritus
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Annette Weintraub is the founder of the Department’s Electronic Design and Multimedia program. She taught EDM courses in Design for the Web, BFA Thesis and Electronic Design I and in the DIAP MFA program. She is a media artist whose work is an investigation of architecture as visual language; her projects explore the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. Past exhibitions include “Sacred Journey: Walking as Mediation” at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, ISEA 2011 in Istanbul, The Whitney Museum of American Art in the first Biennial to include internet art, at ICP [International Center of Photography], International Film Festival/Rotterdam, Thirteen/WNET TV’s Reel New York.Web, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires; FILE in Brazil; 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz and numerous other national and international venues. Commissions include: The Rushlikon Centre for Global Dialogue, CEPA, and Turbulence. She has also been a panelist in Computer Arts for the New York Foundation for the Arts [NYFA].
art history
Aitken, Molly Emma
Cohen, Joshua I.
Cole, Jayne
Gerspacher, Arnaud
Handy, Ellen
Houser, Craig
Indych-López, Anna
Kjaer, Lise
Kornfeld, Abby
Senie, Harriet
Aitken, Molly Emma
Molly Emma Aitken
Associate Professor
Art History
Molly Emma Aitken is a specialist in Asian art history, in particular the arts of South Asia. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2001 with a concentration on the art of South Asia. She has curated traveling exhibitions on South Asian jewelry and contemporary folk quilts, and has published numerous articles on Mughal and Rajput painting. Aitken received CAA’s Charles Rufus Morey book award in 2011 and the AAS Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2012 for her book The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Currently focused on the late 16th and early 17th centuries, she is looking at Mughal receptions of Rajput court arts in the context of social pleasure.
Cohen, Joshua I.
Joshua I. Cohen
Assistant Professor
Art History
Joshua I. Cohen (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014) is an art historian specializing in 20th-century Francophone West Africa, Southern Africa, and connections to Europe and the US. His writing has appeared in The Art Bulletin, African Arts, The Journal of Black Studies, and The Burlington Magazine. He teaches courses in African and global modernisms; the Harlem Renaissance; histories of portraiture; and postcolonialism and contemporary art. He also regularly teaches Art 10000, Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World.
Cole, Jayne
Gerspacher, Arnaud
Arnaud Gerspacher (Fall 2022)
MA Program Director (Sabbatical coverage); Adjunct Assistant Professor
Art History
Arnaud Gerspacher is an environmental art historian and critical animal studies scholar whose research focuses on animals in modern and contemporary art. He received his PhD in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2017. His writings have appeared with Yale University Press, Routledge Press, Art Margins, art-agenda, and October journal. His first book, The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist, was published by The University of Minnesota Press in 2022. This text examines the relationship between contemporary art and modern and cognitive ethology. His current book project, tentatively titled Dangerous Analogies: Towards an Ethological Art History, analyzes the different uses of human-animal analogies in art, from the historic avant-gardes up to the global contemporary present.
Handy, Ellen
Ellen Handy
Associate Professor
Art History
Ellen Handy is a historian, curator and critic of photography and modern art. She teachers courses in the history of photography, art of the United States, art criticism, and research methods in art history. Previously, she was Executive Curator of Visual Collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a regular columnist for Arts Magazine. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, and her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her research interest include landscape and urban imagery in photography and other mediums, intersections of art and science in 19th century photography, women and photography, connoisseurship in photography, printed ephemera, and early modernism in visual and literary culture in the United States.
Houser, Craig
Craig Houser
Lecturer, Co-Director of Art History
Art History
Craig Houser has a B.A. in art history from Carleton College, an M.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. His scholarship focuses on modern and contemporary art in relationship to issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as institutional and social politics. He also has substantial experience working in museums as a curator and educator. He was a curatorial fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition, he was also an editor for College Art Association, which publishes the Art Bulletin and Art Journal. Houser’s publications include “Rachel Whiteread: Vienna Holocaust Memorial,” in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (University of California Press); “The Changing Face of Scholarly Publishing: A History of CAA’s Publications,” in The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: The College Art Association and the Visual Arts since 1911 (Rutgers University Press); and “Disharmony and Discontent: Reviving the American Art-Union and the Market for United States Art in the Gilded Age,” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide 11, no. 2 (Summer 2012).
Indych-López, Anna
Anna Indych-López
Professor
Art History
Anna Indych-López specializes in the modern art of Latin America, specifically Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 2003. Her work focuses on exhibition culture, cross-cultural perceptions, reception analysis, and the relationship between art and politics. A frequent contributor to exhibition catalogues on Modern Mexican and Latin American art, she has also published on contemporary Latino/a artists. She received the College Art Association’s Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant for her book Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940 published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009 and is co-author (with Leah Dickerman) of Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art published by MoMA in 2011.
Kjaer, Lise
Lise Kjaer (on leave Spring 2023)
Lecturer, Co-Director of Art History
Art History
Lise Kjaer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2008. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth century and contemporary art, art history survey and MFA seminars. Her area of research includes issues of identity in modern and contemporary art, and global art history. Kjaer’s dissertation Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quakerism considered the artist’s light installations in view of his renewed interest in Quakerism, Quaker tenets, history and tradition. Current research involves an anthology (co-edited with Dr. Will Wroth) on the scholar Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s influence on twentieth century art, tracing the impact of the writer and curator’s publications, exhibitions and scholarly involvement with South Asian art on twentieth century American, Asian and European art and art history. Kjaer has previously received an MFA with Distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. She has exhibited internationally in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland and the United States, and been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Bamse Kragh-Jacobsen’s Award, and been a fellow of NIFCA, a Nordic artist in residency program in Helsinki, Finland; The Danish Art Council’s Residency at Hirsholmen; TSKW, The Studios of Key West; The Danish Visual Artists’ Berlin Residency Program; and Jeckels Hotel AiR, Denmark. Along with her scholarly work in art history, Kjaer continues her art practice exhibiting sculptures and installation pieces that are often time-based, ephemeral and participatory inviting the viewer to become a part of the work.
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Kornfeld, Abby
Abby Kornfeld
Assistant Professor
Art History
Abby Kornfeld specializes in medieval art and architecture. She holds a joint appointment with the program of Jewish Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 2013. Her work focuses on the intersections between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic art across the medieval Mediterranean. Her forthcoming book resituates three Hebrew illuminated manuscripts within the broader context of medieval art in late fourteenth century Spain. Her research has won the support of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Wexner Foundation. In addition, she curated an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on the eventful and often tumultuous lives of medieval manuscripts after the rise of the printing presses.
Senie, Harriet
Harriet Senie
Professor Emeritus
Art History & Museum Studies
Harriet F. Senie is director of the MA program in art history and art museum studies and teaches the required museum studies seminars in that area. She also teaches Contemporary American Art at the CUNY Graduate Center. In Fall 2000, Prof. Senie was Visiting Distinguished Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She previously served as Associate Director of the Princeton Art Museum and Gallery Director at SUNY, Old Westbury.
Her chief research areas are public art, memorials, memory and material culture, the American landscape tradition (themes of the road in American art and culture), and contemporary pilgrimage practice. In 2008, she co-founded with Professor Cher Krause Knight (Emerson University), Public Art Dialogue, an international organization that is also a CAA affiliate. The journal, Public Art Dialogue, that she co-edits with Prof. Knight, appears twice annually and is the only peer review journal devoted to public art.
Publications:
Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
The ‘Tilted Arc’ Controversy. Dangerous Precedent? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Co-editor. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1998.
Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy. Oxford: Oxford, 1992.
Forthcoming:
Co-editor and contributor Museums and Public Art? Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017.
Windshield Visions: The Theme of the Road in American Art — in process.
Art education
Dewhurst, Marit
Dewhurst, Marit
Marit Dewhurst
Professor, Program Director
Art Education
Marit Dewhurst is the Director of Art Education and Assistant Professor of Art and Museum Education. She completed her doctorate in education from Harvard University in 2009 youth empowerment, activist art-making, and social justice education. She has worked as an educator and program coordinator in multiple settings both nationally and abroad including community centers, museums, juvenile detention centers, and international development projects. Prior to joining the faculty at CCNY, she founded and coordinated The Museum of Modern Art’s free studio arts programs for teens. She is currently the advisor to the youth-led Museum Teen Summit. Publications include chapters in several books on the use of art in social justice education and articles in The Journal of Art Education, Excellence and Equity in Education, and The Journal of Research Practice. In addition, she has collaborated on an exhibition and book on traditional art and HIV/AIDS education with partners. Her research and teaching interests include social justice education, community-based art, anti-bias/multicultural education, youth empowerment, and the role of the arts in community development.
Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice
Moderegger, Hajoe
Moderegger, Hajoe
Hajoe Moderegger
Professor
DIAP MFA Program Director
Electronic Design & Multimedia
Hajoe Moderegger works in collaboration with Franziska Lamprecht as eteam. Their work fuses land ownership, participation and utopian ideas through the use of new media tools and physical presence. They have produced work in many media including video, web, installation and live performance. Their work has been featured at the PS1 MoMA, New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Eyebeam, Momenta Art, Art in General, MUMOK Vienna, Neues Museum Weimar, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, TIDF Taipei the 11th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva and the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam. They have been awarded a NYSCA film & media grant, a Marion Ermer Grant, a NYFA fellowship in the category of Architecture / Environmental Structures / Design and a Creative Capital Grant in emerging media. They are multiple fellows of Macdowell and Yaddo and are the recipients of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a LMCC Workspace residency. In 2017 they received a Whitney Museum Artport Commission and from September 2017-June 2018 they were scholars in residence at the Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong. Their novel “Grabeland” has been published by Nightboat Books in February 2020. In 2021 they received a Fulbright research scholarship to Taiwan.
staff
Abu-Shaheen, Manal
Feng, Anne
Harrington, Andrew
Ivanov, Lily
Jones, Art
Rupan, Naidya
Sculpture Shop Technician
Politarhos, Maria
Abu-Shaheen, Manal
Manal Abu-Shaheen
College Lab Technician
Photography
Manal Abu-Shaheen is a photographer. She received her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2011; a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY in 2003; and attended Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon in 1999. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2016); The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (2016); Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN (2016); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2015); The Print Shop at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2014); Camera Club of New York, NY (2013); and Welch School of Art and Design Galleries, Atlanta, GA (2012), among others. She is a recipient of the 2016/17 A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, and the 2015 Artist in the Marketplace Residency at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She is a 2016/17 participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace residency program. Manal works as a College Laboratory Technician and an adjunct instructor teaching photography at CCNY.
Feng, Anne
Anne Feng
Art Ed Advisor
Art Education
Anne Feng is a recent graduate from Pratt Institute, where she earned her BFA and MA in Art Education with a concentration in Drawing. Through her years of study, Anne has developed a working pedagogy of grounding all actions in kindness, which leads to empathy and honest communication with others. As such, she is thrilled to be joining the Art Ed family at City College and to support other artist educators in their studies of the field.
Harrington, Andrew
Andrew Harrington
College Lab Technician
Digital Output Center
Andrew Harrington is a photographer and artist who explores the fragility of social relationships in a time of technological disruption and lies. His work exists in the intersection between digital photography, printing and traditional bookbinding techniques. He holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA in Photo Video and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts. Andrew has founded and maintains a book bindery under the name The Harrington Bindery that specializes in Medieval bookbinding techniques using archival materials and methods. His photographs and photobooks are in private collections in New York, Boston and Los Angeles.
Ivanov, Lily
Lily Ivanov
Academic Advisor
Art Department
Lily Ivanov is a visual artist and educator. She earned her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MA in Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Jones, Art
Rupan, Naidya
Naidya Rupan
Administrative Assistant
Art Department
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Sculpture Shop Technician
TBA
Shop Technician
Sculpture
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Politarhos, Maria
Maria Politarhos
(on leave Fall 2023 & Spring 2024)
Photo Lab Manager
Photography
Maria Politarhos is a photographer who uses traditional photography, photo-printmaking and historic alternative photographic methods in her work. She studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and The City College of New York, where she completed her MFA in 2000. Maria works as a College Lab Technician/Photo Lab Manager and an adjunct instructor teaching photography at CCNY.