QC Queens College

Studio Art and Graphic Design Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Arthur Cohen, Professor, Painting

Rider Thrown from Bull
2009
Oil on canvas
111 x 127 inches

Raised in Queens, Arthur Cohen has lived and worked in Manhattan since 1969. He received his BA from Queens College and his MFA from Indiana University. His most recent solo exhibition was at Jack The Pelican Presents, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2008. Previous solo exhibitions have included shows at Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, Max Hutchinson Gallery, Susan Caldwell Gallery, and Michael Walls Gallery, all in New York. He has participated in group exhibitions at Postmasters (three-person exhibit), Apex Art, National Academy Museum, and the Whitney Museum, all in New York, and SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art. He has received fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cohen has taught at Queens College since 1969, as well as at Princeton University and Pratt Institute.

http://arthurcohenstudio.com
Arther.Cohen@qc.cuny.edu

Maureen Connor, Professor, Sculpture

Casual Friday
(detail of installation)

Maureen Connor's work combines elements of installation, video, interior design, ethnography, human resources, feminism, and social justice. Since 2000 she has been developing Personnel, a series of interventions that are concerned with the workplace and explore the attitudes, needs, and desires of staff at various institutions. Personnel and related projects have been produced for a diverse group of venues that include the School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008; Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art, Romania, 2008; Disonancias: Collaborations Between Artists and Companies, San Sebastian, Spain, 2007; Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland, 2004-7; Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, 2003; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2002; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2001; among others. Connor is also known for her feminist work from the 1980s and '90s, which focuses on gender and its modes of representation. This work has been included in numerous publications and exhibited widely in venues such as Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; Museo Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MAK, Vienna; Porticus, Frankfurt; ICA, Philadelphia; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Biennial, among many others. Her work has received extensive funding from such sources as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Harvestworks, among others. Before she began teaching at Queens College in 1990, Connor taught in a number of art departments and art schools including the Akademie der Bilden Kunst, Munich, Germany; Princeton University; Parsons School of Design; Rhode Island School of Design; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. She is currently working on a book about Personnel to be published jointly by Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland, and Revolver Press, Frankfurt, Germany.

http://www.maureenconnor.net
Maureen.Connor@qc.cuny.edu

Glenn Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Painting

Amidst it All
2008
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
9 x 12 inches

Glenn Goldberg lives and works in New York City. He holds an MFA from Queens College and is a graduate of the New York Studio School. Solo exhibitions of his work have appeared in venues in California, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, New York City, and Munich, Germany. Goldberg is the recipient of awards from the Edward Albee Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts, and Margaret Hall Silva Foundation. His work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Rose Art Museum, Waltham; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Glenn.Goldberg@qc.cuny.edu

Tony Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Photography

Margo
2009
Gum Bichromate Print
11 x 16.5 inches

Tony Gonzalez lives in New York City and Hudson, New York, and holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine artist, he taught undergraduate photography courses at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and New York University. His most recent exhibits include group shows at the Urban Center in New York City as well as solo exhibits at Illinois Central College in Peoria, Illinois and Cheryl McGinnis Gallery in New York City. Gonzalez's series on the New Jersey shore appeared in Professional Photographers of America. Other published work includes The Landmarks of New York, Volume IV and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition. His photographs are included in various permanent collections, such as the Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York; the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Trenton, New Jersey; Numina Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey; and En Foco Inc., Bronx, New York.

http://www.tonygonzalezartist.com
http://tonygonzalezartist.tumblr.com
Antonio.Gonzalez@qc.cuny.edu

Sin-ying Ho, Assistant Professor, Ceramics

Music
2007
Porcelain, hand painted cobalt oxide images,
computer decal transfer, terra sigillata
16 x 8 x 8 inches

Ceramic artist Sin-Ying Ho was born in Hong Kong, immigrated to Canada, and currently resides in New York City. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Louisiana State University. Ho has taught and run workshops and exhibitions all across Canada, as well as from Harvard to Hong Kong. She has an impressive exhibition record: In each of the last few years, she has participated in four to eight shows. She has taught at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond; Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia; Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary; and Concordia University in Montreal, Québec. Among her honors, she has received the San Angelo National Ceramic Competition Merit Award, Canada Council Grant for the Canada Year of Asian Pacific, Canada Council of the Art Research and Development Grant, and a PSC-CUNY Grant. Recently, Ho exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in Queens, New York; Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Ontario; and Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. Her pieces are in the permanent collections of the Icheon World Ceramic Centre in Korea, Glenbow Museum in Canada, Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, and Guangdong Museum of Art, China. Her work Music serves as the cover image of Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice, edited by Ruth Chambers, Amy Gogarty & Mireille Perron (Ronsdale Press 2007).

Queens College Ceramics Club
Sinying.Ho@qc.cuny.edu

Marvin Hoshino, Professor, Graphic Design

Marvin Hoshino teaches graphic design, advanced image processing, and digital imagemaking. He specializes in photography book and magazine design. He edited and designed seven books of photographs for Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing with an essay by James Agee; In the Street with text by Robert Coles; Mexico City with an essay by James Oles; Crosstown with an introduction by Francine Prose; Here and There with an introduction by Adam Gopnik; Slide Show with an essay by John Szarkowski; and Helen Levitt with a preface by Walker Evans. He has also designed books by photographer Thomas Roma: Enduring Justice, Sicilian Passage, Show and Tell, In Prison Air, On Three Pillars, and Dear Knights and Dark Horses. A book of photographs by Jules Allen is due out later this year. In addition, Hoshino has worked on projects for the Pierpont Morgan Library, Fashion Institute of Technology, Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Radford University Press, Mark Morris Dance Group, New York City Ballet, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company. With Roberta Hellman he has written on photography for The Village Voice, Arts Magazine, Art in America, The Massachusetts Review, and Delaware Art Museum. He is the editor and designer of Ballet Review, a quarterly dance publication.

Marvin.Hoshino@qc.cuny.edu

Kurt Kauper, Assistant Professor, Painting

Cary Grant #2
2003
Oil on birch panel
90 x 56 inches

Kurt Kauper received a BFA from Boston University in 1988 and an MFA in painting from UCLA in 1995. He has had solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles and Deitch Projects in New York City. He has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, in such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; the Stedelijk Museum in Gent, Belgium; Castello da Rivoli in Turin, Italy; the Pompidou Center in Paris; and the Kunsthalle Vienna. Among numerous awards, he has received two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants, a Tiffany Foundation Grant, and two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Oakland Museum of Art; the Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro; and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven. He has taught at Orange Coast College, the Museum School in Boston, and Yale University. Kauper’s paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons—opera divas, Cary Grant, and hockey players—seen in unfamiliar ways.

http://www.kurtkauper.com
Kurt.Kauper@qc.cuny.edu

Tyrone Mitchell, Professor, Sculpture

Door
Mixed media
72 x 43 inches

Tyrone Mitchell received his education from the New York Studio School and the Art Students League. He has had solo exhibitions at G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago and Birmingham; Bomani Gallery in San Francisco; the Bronx Museum of Art; and the Newark Museum. Mitchell has been included in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, and the Fukui Fine Art Museum in Japan, to name but a few. His honors include fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Lila Wallace, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Mitchell has taught at Bard College, Hunter College, and the Delhi College of Art in India. He currently lives in New York.

Tyrone.Mitchell@qc.cuny.edu

Debra Priestly, Professor, Painting

Strange Fruit 25
2007
Mixed media on wood
80 x 24 inches

Debra Priestly is a mixed media visual artist living and working in New York City and upstate New York. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from The Ohio State University. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. It appears in several publications, including Creating Their Own Image: The History of African American Women Artists; Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of African-American Women Artists and Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists. Priestly’s work is also part of several permanent and private collections and is represented by June Kelly Gallery, New York City. Priestly began teaching at Queens College in 1998. She was formerly Instructor of Art at Cooper Union and Visiting Artist at Sarah Lawrence College, Massachusetts College of Art, Parumoana Community Polytechnic New Zealand, and The Ohio State University.

http://www.debrapriestly.net
Debra.Priestly@qc.cuny.edu

Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor, Sculpture

Dark Matter:
Art and Politics
in the Age of
Enterprise Culture
2011
Pluto Press (UK)

Artist and writer Gregory Sholette is a graduate of studio art programs at Bucks County Community Collage, Pennsylvania; the Cooper Union (BFA 1979); University of California San Diego (MFA 1995); and the Whitney Independent Studies Program in Critical Theory (1996). His individual sculpture, drawing, and media works have been exhibited at Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Plato’s Cave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as the Taipei Art Biennial in Taiwan, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, the Dia Art Foundation, Anthology Film Archives, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A mini-retrospective of his work was exhibited in 2004 at Colgate University's Clifford Art Gallery during his residency as Colgate's Distinguished Batza Family Visiting Chair of Art and Art History. Sholette also chaired the Master of Arts in Arts Administration Program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, served as the Curator of Education at the New Museum (1998), served as a Board Member of College Art Association, and is an advisor for the new Beirut Academy of Art in Lebanon. He leads seminars in social art theory and practice for the Critical Cross Cultural research program at Geneva University of Art and Design, Harvard University’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and he was a founding member of two New York-based artists' collectives: Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). He is co-editor of the books Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, with Blake Stimson (University of Minnesota, 2007), and The Interventionists: A Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, with Nato Thompson, (MASS MoCA/MIT Press, 2004, 05, 08). A frequent international lecturer on issues of art and politics, he contributes essays on contemporary visual culture to Artforum, Third Text, Oxford Art Journal, October, Art Journal, Huffington Post, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Politics. In January 2011 Pluto Press (UK) published his latest book: Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture.

http://www.gregorysholette.com
http://www.darkmatterarchives.net
Gregory.Sholette@qc.cuny.edu

Kathryn Weinstein, Instructor, Graphic Design

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Kathryn Weinstein received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She began her career as an exhibiting artist with a focus on installation, image and text, and photography. Her work in graphic design has been widely exhibited. She received two public art commissions from the San Francisco Arts Commission; one of her designs is in the permanent collection of the New-York Historical Society. Her design projects include logos, posters, books, websites and web-based applications for nonprofit organizations, such as the Fund for the City of New York and the Center for Court Innovation. An adjunct lecturer at Queens College since 2004, she was just appointed instructor for 2010-2011.

http://www.kathrynweinstein.com/portfolio/
Kathryn.Weinstein@qc.cuny.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Judith Bernstein

Installation Shot at the Box, LA
2009
From One-Person Exhibition: "Judith
Bernstein: Works From 1966-2009"

Judith Bernstein has participated in two exhibitions at The Box LA; Hauser & Wirth Zurich; The New Museum New York; Frieze London; P.S.1; Roller Shutter Project New York; The Armory New York; NADA Miami; Gio Marconi gallery Milan; Mitchell Algus Gallery; Paul Kasmin Gallery; David Zwirner Gallery; A.I.R. Gallery; MoMA and the Drawing Center, all in New York; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton; Katzen Art Museum in Washington, DC; and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, New Yorker magazine, Time Out NY, Art in America, Artforum, Kunstforum, New York Magazine and Artnet.com. Bernstein has received grants from Joan Mitchell, Anonymous Was A Woman, Gottlieb, New York Foundation, and the National Endowment. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum and Yale Art Gallery.

Nancy Cohen

P (n,k) [combinatoric]
2010
Metal springs, glass, rubber, cement, resin, aquaresin
68 x 120 x 9 inches

A mixed-media artist, Nancy Cohen works in sculpture, installation, and drawing. She received her BFA in ceramics from Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. Recent large-scale projects have included a site-specific installation based on the Hudson River for the Katonah Museum of Art and a collaboration with marine biologists and environmentalists based on the Mullica River for the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, New Jersey. In 2011 her work was featured in a solo exhibition "Permeable Matter" at Kean University in Union, NJ and in a group exhibition "A Common Thread" at The Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She has a new installation in the current exhibition "Green: A Color and A Cause" at the Textile Museum in Washington DC.

http://www.nancymcohen.com
http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/docs/NancyCohenCatalog.pdf

Susan Spencer Crowe

Empire on the Hudson
2010
Cardboard, encaustic wax, and chenille stems
26.5 x 42 x 32 inches

Susan Spencer Crowe has been adjunct professor at Queens College since 2004 and is currently an artist/teacher for the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In addition to teaching, Crowe has had an extensive career as arts administrator for cultural institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, and the Drawing Center. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Norwich University and a BFA from Pratt Institute. She has received two Artist Fellowship awards in sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was named the Lily Auchincloss Foundation Sculpture Fellow in 2001.

Laura Dodson

Heads or Tails (triptych)
2008
Archival Inkjet Print
60 x 40 inches

Laura Dodson is an artist represented by Kouros Gallery in New York and Gallery 7 in Athens, Greece. She has an MFA from Pratt Institute and has taught photography in Greece and New York.

http://www.lauradodson.net

Matt Greco

Machinations of the Human Condition
Paired Down to a Single Expression
2010
Plywood, found elements, and mixed media
120" x 72" x 12

Matt Greco is a photographer, video artist, sculptor and installation artist living and working in Queens NY. He received his BFA from Armstrong Atlantic University and his MFA from Queens College. His work has been seen in exhibitions in New York and Georgia. He is the current head of the Digital Imaging Laboratory at Queens College. Greco's work varies in subject and medium and most recently he has examined the innovative ways ordinary people use to problem solve in their everyday life.

http://mfgreco.com
matthew.greco@qc.cuny.edu

Jim Lee

Jim Lee received his MFA from the University of Delaware before relocating to Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, most recently at Freight + Volume, NYC; FDC Satellite, Brussels; Markus Winter, Berlin; and White Flag Projects, St. Louis. He currently teaches at Queens College and Hofstra University.

http://www.jimleestudio.com

Matt Nolen

Hero Trophy
2007
ceramic sculpture

Matt Nolen is a studio artist living and working in New York City. Trained as a painter and architect, he now focuses on sculptural objects and architectural installations using clay and mixed media. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design, both in New York City; the Newark Museum, in New Jersey; the Houston Museum of Fine Art in Texas; the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California; and the Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, New York. Nolen’s work has been written about and reviewed in many periodicals, such as the New York Times, American Ceramics, Ceramics Art and Perception, Confrontational Clay, Postmodern Ceramics, and Painted Clay.

http://www.nolenstudios.com
tnolen@qc.cuny.edu

Jennifer Poueymirou

Long Spike Vessel

Jennifer Poueymirou received her BFA from Alfred University, her MFA from Louisiana State University, and completed additional study at the Kansas City Art Institute, Penland, Haystack, and Pilchuck. She has exhibited at the Fine Arts Center at the University of Arkansas; Heller Gallery in Manhattan; DUMBO in Brooklyn, New York; Anne Connelly Gallery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Artspace in Kansas City, Missouri. She also completed a commission that exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Poueymirou is currently a studio artist at Boffo-NY and recently completed the studio artist position at the Museum of Arts and Design. Her teaching experience includes positions at the University of South Florida, Michigan State University, and Louisiana State University.

Suzy Sureck

Aqua Lumina

Suzy Sureck’s sculptural installations, drawings, videos, and photographs involve the physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, light, and shadow, with attention to the environment and site. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and India. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union in New York, and a Master's Degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, and studied at the Slade School of Art in London. Sureck lives and works in New York. Her works have been highlighted in the New York Times, World Art. Sculpture Magazine, NY Arts and Flash Art, and can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Installation in London, the Artists Museum in Poland, and the Dr. Fischer Arts for Peace Collection.

http://www.suzysureck.com