Art Department Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
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MICHAEL NELSONArt Department ChairpersonAncient and Classical ArtMichael Nelson is an art historian and an active field archaeologist studying the ancient architecture of the Mediterranean. For more than a decade, he has been a member of an international team of scholars excavating at Omrit, a Roman and Early Byzantine site in northern Israel. Currently, his research focuses on the well-preserved temple complex at Omrit and its three Corinthian temples. His interests include the use and reception of Roman religious architecture and temple sculpture in the fringe areas of the empire and the transmission of stoneworking techniques. He also works at Leukos, a Roman and Early Byzantine port settlement on the Greek island of Karpathos in the Dodecanese. His research here explores insular settlement archaeology in relation to seaborne trade. https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/art/michael-nelson/
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HEATHER HORTONRenaissance and Baroque ArtHeather Horton (Ph.D., NYU Institute of Fine Arts) joined the Art Department in 2022, after teaching at Pratt Institute for eleven years and receiving the Distinguished Teacher Award there in 2022. She specializes in Renaissance Italy, but teaches across the Queens College curriculum. In courses such as Introduction to Art History I/II, Baroque and the Beginnings of Globalism, or graduate seminars, Horton’s courses emphasize cross-cultural analysis, artistic processes and techniques, and connections to our current moment. In 2023-24, Horton was a Faculty Fellow for Open Educational Resources at Queens College and in 2024-25 she is a Kress Fellow for Teaching with Primary Sources at the Archives of American Art. Horton recently published “Teaching Medieval Jerusalem: Student-Centered Approaches to Interpreting Historical Objects and Spaces,” in The Once and Future Classroom, the journal for the Teaching Association of Medieval Studies. She frequently presents her work at national conferences and serves on the College Art Association Education Committee. https://qc-cuny.academia.edu/HeatherHorton
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EDWARD POWERSModern and Contemporary ArtEdward Powers is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art. He received his PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Prior to Queens College, for a number of years he taught at the Pratt Institute, and was a museum lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art. He is a specialist in modern European and American art, whose scholarly work focuses on French Symbolism, Dada and Surrealism, and Pop art, and whose classes regularly cover the period from about the American and French Revolutions to the Vietnam War. https://qc-cuny.academia.edu/EdwardPowers
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LAWRENCE WALDRONGraduate Program ChairpersonLatin America and Non-Western ArtLawrence Waldron is Assistant Professor of Art History at Queens College. He holds an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and a PhD in Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture from The Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. He teaches courses in the art and architecture of the ancient Americas, Asia, and Africa. His broad research interests stem from an interest in the distinct traditions that collided first in the Caribbean and Latin America in the fifteenth century, and in the lost traditions, syncretisms, and innovations of the colonial and early modern periods. His 2016 book, Handbook of Ceramic Animal Symbols in the Ancient Lesser Antilles, catalogued and interpreted the twenty-plus most common zoomorphs that occur in the surviving arts of the pre-Columbian Caribbean, surveying traditional narratives and other folklore, Caribbean and Amazonian ethnography, ethnozoology, island biogeography and other disciplines to offer insight into the cultural significance of these animal symbols. His 2019 book, Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean offered a broad survey of over two millennia of ceramic, sculptural, architectural, lapidary, rupestrian, and body art in the pre-Conquest Antilles. He has recently completed the book Cemí: The Development, Symbolism, and Ritual Life of Caribbean Trigonoliths employs a multidisciplinary approach to understanding a unique but enigmatic class of conical art objects found across the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
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WARREN WOODFINUndergraduate Deputy ChairByzantine and Medieval ArtWarren T. Woodfinis a specialist in the arts of Byzantium and its neighbors in the medieval world. His specific areas of interest include the ritual and ideological uses of objects and images; textiles and clothing; artistic agency; hierarchies of media; cross-cultural reception and appropriation of artistic motifs; and historical memory, amnesia, and reinvention in the Middle Ages. He is author of The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford, 2012) and co-editor of Clothing the Sacred: Medieval Textiles as Fabric, Form, and Metaphor (Edition Imorde, 2015) with Mateusz Kapustka. He curated the exhibition From the Desert to the City: The Journey of Late Ancient Textiles at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College as well as the 2015 Met Museum installation Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World. His articles have appeared in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Gesta, Ars Orientalis, The Art Bulletin, and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, among other journals. He is currently working on a monograph exploring the ways in which actual liturgy enacted by the Orthodox clergy interacted with artistic representations of the “heavenly” liturgy in the 11th to 15th centuries. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and his research has been supported by fellowships at the Met Museum, the University of Zürich, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. He has also been the recipient of a Collaborative Research Grant from the Getty Foundation to publish the finds from a 13th century nomadic burial in southern Ukraine with Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania), Yuriy Rassamakin (Institute of Archaeology, Kyiv), and Oleksandr Halenko (Institute of History, Kyiv).
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Adjunct Faculty
| Antoniou, Maria | Maria.Antoniou@qc.cuny.edu |
| Hartel, Herbert | Herbert.Hartel@qc.cuny.edu |
| Lorenzo Loureiro, Alejandro | alejandro.loureirolorenzo@qc.cuny.edu |
| Peredo, Roberto | Roberto.Peredo@qc.cuny.edu |
| Fikrig, Michelle | Michelle.Fikrig@qc.cuny.edu |
| Jones, Jennifer | Jennifer.Jones@qc.cuny.edu |
Full-Time Faculty
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KRISTY CALDWELL
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ANDREW DEROSAAndrew DeRosa is a communication designer living and working in New York City. His work balances studio practice, design education, and research. DeRosa teaches at Queens College and Pratt Institute. He is the co-editor of Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives. Professionally, DeRosa has over 20 years of experience as a designer, which includes innovation consulting at IDEO, collaborating with Jerry Seinfeld, and creating numerous wine labels with Brazos Wine. DeRosa also has a body of experimental design that has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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AMY FORTUNATOAmy 김선혜 Fortunato is an Assistant Professor of Design in the Art Department at Queens College in New York. She received a MFA in Visual Communication Design from Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea, and a BFA in Communication Arts from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. She is a Korean American design educator with a global design practice that spans from the arts and cultural sector to non-profit organizations, and has been an associate of Green Dragon Office designing books with Lorraine Wild for over a decade. Her research interests focus on narratives found in the visualization of cultural identity, multilingual typography, and intersectional methodology.
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DUSTIN GRELLADustyStudio.com
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DANNE WOODeputy ChairDanne Woo, an innovator at the intersection of design, technology, and academia, is an Assistant Professor in the Design BFA program at Queens College, CUNY, where he brings his extensive background in data visualization, interaction design, and artificial intelligence to the classroom. Woo’s career, spanning over two decades, is defined by his pioneering approach to integrating data-driven design and emerging technologies. He is the founder and CEO of Datavisual, a globally utilized data visualization platform that seamlessly combines statistical analysis with dynamic storytelling. His entrepreneurial ventures also include BigPlay, which broke new ground with its Guinness World Record-winning project, Splat!, showcased in partnership with AT&T and VICE Media at SXSW. Woo’s professional achievements extend to the realm of social justice through his ongoing work as a Creative Technologist Fellow and consultant for Color Of Change. This multi-year partnership has driven significant growth and impact for the organization, increasing membership by millions and advancing fundraising efforts. His work has been featured in prominent media such as Fast Company, The Guardian, and Make Magazine, underscoring his influence on both technology and society. At Queens College, Woo has developed courses like Creative Coding, Physical Computing, and Data Visualization, which reflect his commitment to equipping students with a solid foundation in design and technology. Woo’s leadership role as Education Director on the Board of Directors for the Data Visualization Society further highlights his dedication to advancing design and technology education on a global scale.
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Adjunct Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
TONY GANZALEZTony Gonzalez is an artist currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Gonzalez has taught photography for over 30 years including at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and New York University. Since 2002, Gonzalez has been teaching full-time at Queens College, CUNY and is currently a Tenured Professor and the Deputy Chair of the Photography & Imaging BFA Program. Gonzalez is a contributing author for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition and Third Edition by Christopher James, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson and is featured most recently in the Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner’s Guide 1st Edition by Morgan Post. In 2016, “NAIADS” was featured in the Arezzo & Fotografia Biennial for photography in Arezzo, Italy and most recently in June 2024 Gonzalez had a solo exhibit titled “Little Red” in Queens, NY. His work was also featured in groups shows at Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in June 2024 and at SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC in October 2024.
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MATTHEW GRECOMatt Greco is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn NY. He is an Assistant Professor of Photography & Imaging at Queens College CUNY, a co-principal investigator on MakeSTEAM Q (an NSF-HSI funded project) and Co-founder and Faculty Supervisor of The Klapper Digital Imaging Lab and Digital Fabrication Lab at Queens College. Greco received his BFA from Armstrong Atlantic University and his MFA from Queens College CUNY. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally including The Museum of Art & Design (NY), Apexart (NY), The NY Studio Gallery (NY), Amos Eno Gallery (NY), The Telfair Museum of Art (GA), Gallery 126 (Ireland), The Beacon Gallery (CA), and The Baron Gallery (OH). Greco’s work varies in subject and medium and of late has explored the innovative ways people problem solve in their everyday lives. Matt Greco is one half of the public art collaboration Damfino which focuses on public art with a concern for traditional construction methods and reclaimed building materials.
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GREGORY SHOLETTEDr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2013-2021). Sholette holds a PhD in History and Memory Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017), he is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory (1996), Graduate of University of California San Diego (1995), The Cooper Union School of Art (1979), and Bucks County Community College (AAS 1976). He is active with Gulf Labor Coalition and was a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000) and is the curator of Imaginary Archive: a peripatetic collection of documents speculating on a past whose future never arrived with iterations in Kyiv Ukraine, ICA Philadelphia, Galway, Ireland and Zeppelin University in Germany. His art and research theorize and document issues of collective cultural labor, activist art, and counter-historical representations that because of their ephemerality, politics, and marketplace resistance typically remain invisible. He has contributed to such journals as FIELD, Eflux, Artforum, Frieze, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, Afterimage, CAA Art Journal and Manifesta Journal among other publications. His most recent books include: The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art from Lund Humphries (Fall 2022). Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017); Art As Social Action (with Chloë Bass: 2018); Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2011) currently being translated into Portuguese and Spanish editions. Sholette’s blog: Welcome To Our Bare Art World: https://gregsholette.tumblr.com/
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Adjunct Faculty
| Diaz, Marisol | marisol.diaz@qc.cuny.edu |
| Dodson, Laura | Laura.Dodson@qc.cuny.edu |
| Harris, Steven | Steven.Harris@qc.cuny.edu |
| Mesa-Pelly, Deborah | deborah.mesapelly@qc.cuny.edu |
| Minielli, Gina | gina.minielli@qc.cuny.edu |
| Quintana, Maria | maria.quinata@qc.cuny.edu |
Full-Time Faculty
| Bass, Chloe | chloe.bass@qc.cuny.edu |
| Ho, Sin-Ying | sinying.ho@qc.cuny.edu |
| Goldberg, Glenn | Glenn.Goldberg@qc.cuny.edu |
| Kauper, Kurt | Kurt.Kauper@qc.cuny.edu |
Adjunct Faculty
| Ahn, Seongmin | seongmin.park@qc.cuny.edu |
| Cannon, Jessica | jessica.cannon@qc.cuny.edu |
| Ebner, Rosanne | rosanne.ebner@qc.cuny.edu |
| Esposito, Christopher | christopher.esposito@qc.cuny.edu |
| Grullon, Alicia | alicia.grullon@qc.cuny.edu |
| Kristensen, Anna | anna.kristensen@qc.cuny.edu |
| Lieb, Nathaniel | nathaniel.lieb@qc.cuny.edu |
| Mackie,Lisa | lisa.mackie@qc.cuny.edu |
| Marino-Jones, Mary | MMarinojones@qcc.cuny.edu |
| Mittal, Puneeta | Puneeta.Mittal@qc.cuny.edu |
| Mulford, Anne | Anne.Mulford@qc.cuny.edu |
| Powhida, William | William.Powhida@qc.cuny.edu |
| Smith, Krista-Louise | kristalouise.smith@qc.cuny.edu |
| Sullivan, Jennifer | jennifer@jennifersullivan.org |
** On Sabbatical **