DPI ALUM PANEL & HONORING PROFESSOR LORIE NOVAK’S RETIREMENT
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging and the contributions of Professor Lorie Novak, we invite you to join us for a panel with seven of our many distinguished alums. This event will take place on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, from 6-8:30 pm, in the Riese Lounge at 721 Broadway and live-streamed on Zoom. There will be a reception to follow.
Featured Alumni:
Zalika Azim (BFA 2014) is a New York based artist and educator with ancestral roots in Aiken, South Carolina and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Framed through disciplines of photography, the archive, and her deep research into the practices and histories of black movement, Azim's multidisciplinary approach explores the tensions between personal and collective narratives, both known and indecipherable in order to explore possibility. Azim’s work has been presented with the Milwaukee Art Museum, Gagosian, Welancora Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, ICP, Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York, and The African American Museum in Philadelphia. Azim served as co-curator for the inaugural exhibition Countermythologies at NXTHVN, a new national arts model and multidisciplinary incubator cultivating local communities and professional careers in the arts. She is currently completing her MFA in Photography at the University of California Los Angeles.
Sam Contis (BFA 2004) received her MFA from Yale University in 2008 Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MoMA, NY, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Contis’s work is in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the LA County Museum of Art; MoMA; the V&A, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. She is the author of Deep Springs (2017) and Day Sleeper (2020). Her new monograph, Overpass, was recently published by Aperture.
Rose DeSiano (BFA 2001) brings together photography and sculpture into a public art practice. Her artwork examines cultural symbolism, the collective consciousness, and is interested in bringing to the surface lost or undiscussed topics of history. Commissioned by multiple cities, her photo-sculptures have appeared in New York City, San Diego, Delaware, and Cleveland and have received awards, including the Uniqlo Parks Grant and FLOW.17 Public Art Award. DeSiano received her MFA from Art Center (2005), LA. Her gallery artwork has been exhibited in solo shows in the US and Europe, featured in several group museum exhibitions; Bronx Art Museum, Allentown Museum of Art, Heritage Museum of Málaga, and has been included in international art fairs; Photoville, FOTOFOCUS, and Orange Changsha Photo, China. A native Brooklynite, she currently lives in NYC and is a Professor of Art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
Diane Meyer (BFA 1999) received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Professor of Photography at Loyola Marymount University. Exhibitions include those at Klompching Gallery, NYC; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts; 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; AIR Gallery, NYC, the Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal George Eastman Museum, Rochester; The Hood Museum, NH; Diffusion International Photography Festival, Cardiff, Wales; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; The Curve, Berlin; Marshall Contemporary, Los Angeles and Flowers Gallery, London. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; Clarinda Carnegie Museum, the Hood Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Alice Proujansky (BFA 2002) is a documentary photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She has received support from The International Women's Media Foundation, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Solutions Journalism Network. She is now working on Hard Times are Fighting Times, an archival and documentary photobook about her family legacy of radical activism; photo essays about culturally-responsive birth work; and visual literacy workshops. Alice has taught photography since 2002 and was the lead curriculum writer for On Sight, Aperture’s photography, and visual literacy curriculum. Her first book, Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids was published by Aperture in 2016. A member of Women Photograph, Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA, and lives in Brooklyn.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (BFA 2004) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and Associate Professor in Media Arts and MFA Program Director at UC San Diego. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2016. His work is in the collections of the Getty Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, LACMA, MoMA, SFMoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum, the Stedelijk, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum and among others. Recent exhibitions include solos at Vielmetter in Los Angeles and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, and he will present concurrent June 2023 exhibitions at Galerie Peter Kilchmann locations in Paris and Zurich.
Hank Willis Thomas (BFA 1998) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including ICP, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), The Writing on the Wall, and For Freedoms. In 2017, For Freedoms was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, The Guggenheim Fellowship, AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize, Soros Equality Fellowship, Aperture West Book Prize, Renew Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. In January 2023, Thomas unveiled The Embrace on Boston Common, a monument to Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. He holds a M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004). Photo by Jeff Vespa.
Lorie Novak began teaching at Tisch as an adjunct professor in 1985 and joined the full-time faculty in the Fall of 1991. She was chair of the department from 1999-2007. She is the founding director of DPI’s Future Imagemakers program. Her photo-based works explore issues of memory and transmission, presence and absence, shifting meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships among other awards. Her photographs are in many museum permanent collections, and her Internet projects include www.migraineregister.net, and her collaborative collectedvisions.net, 1996-present, exploring how family photographs shape our memory, was one of the earliest interactive storytelling sites. She will be retiring at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
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