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Work from our MFA in Photography & Integrated Media

Get to know the people of our MFA in Photography & Integrated Media program by perusing their work.

Explore your potential by meeting our renowned artists and scholars through their work. Every semester, a new all-star visiting artist comes to our program full-time to share their visions with you. Our alumni go on to create trailblazing strides in visual culture. Here, take a look at the community you'll be joining and imagine what you could accomplish.

Student and Alumni Work

Faculty Work

Visiting Artist/Scholar Work

 

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Elinor Carucci

Elinor Carucci was a visiting artist / scholar in 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2021. Carucci's work has included solo shows with Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery, London; and group shows including The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago, and The Photographers' Gallery, London. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Houston Museum of Fine Art and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and ARTnews.

Carucci was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and NYFA in 2010. She has published four monographs to date: Closer, Diary of a Dancer, MOTHER, and Midlife. Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Related Media at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

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Lyle Rexer

Lyle Rexer was a visiting artist / scholar in 2013, 2017, and 2021. 

He is the author of several books, including The Critical Eye: 15 Pictures to Understand Photography (2019); The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009); and Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes (2002). In addition to his book projects, Lyle Rexer has published many catalogue essays dealing with contemporary artists and collections and contributes articles on art, architecture, photography, and culture to a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, Harper's, Aperture, Raw Vision and the Brooklyn Rail.

As a curator, he has organized exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Lyle Rexer teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has been involved with the MFA Photography and Integrated Media program since inception.

Read Lyle Rexer's review of the Judd exhibition.

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Deborah Copaken

Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including ShutterbabeThe Red Book, and Between Here and April. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she is also a Golden Globe–nominated TV writer (Emily in Paris), a performer (The Moth, etc.), and a former Emmy Award–winning news producer and photojournalist.

Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Slate, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Paris Match, among others. Her column “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist” was adapted for the Modern Love streaming series. Her next book, Ladyparts, will be published by Random House on August 3, 2021.