- Lance Acord, cinematographer
- William Anthony, painter
- Aziz + Cucher, artists
- Addie L. Ballou, artist and poet
- Ruth-Marion Baruch, photographer
- Devendra Banhart, musician and illustrator
- Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mount Rushmore (1927)
- Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
- Joan Brown, painter
- Kathryn Bigelow, film director
- Sarah Cain, artist
- Emily Carr, painter
- Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
- Christopher Coppola, film director
- Rinaldo Cuneo, painter
- Ronald Davis, painter
- Tullio DeSantis, American Contemporary Artist and Writer (1977)
- Richard Diebenkorn, American abstract and figurative artist (1946/7)
- Elizabeth Falkner, Accomplished Restaurateur & Author, Citizen Cake (Executive Pastry Chef) and Orson co-owner (Executive chef) (1989)
- Karen Finley, performance artist
- Jeremy Fish, illustrator
- Peter Forakis, painter, sculptor
- Jerry Garcia, member of the Grateful Dead
- Gerald Gillum, Composer, Music Producer, Performer: G-EAZY
- Charles Ginnever, sculptor
- Jim Goldberg, photographer (1979)
- Allan Graham, visual artist
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- Robert Graham (sculptor)
- Percy Gray, painter
- Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
- Gale Harold, actor
- Wally Hedrick
- Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
- Marc Horowitz, artist/writer/filmmaker/comic
- Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
- Grace Carpenter Hudson, painter of Pomo people
- Robert H. Hudson, sculptor
- Philip Hyde (photographer)
- David Ireland
- Rea Irvin, art editor of The New Yorker
- Debora Iyall, lead singer of Romeo Void
- Emil Janel, Swedish-born, American artist
- Spike Jonze, film director
- Sargent Johnson, sculptor (1919–1923)
- Alex Kahn, pageant performance artist, chief designer for New York's Village Halloween Parade
- Molly Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
- Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
- Greg Kulz tattoo artist
- Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
- Ronnie Landfield, painter
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
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- Clayton Lewis, painter and sculptor
- Courtney Love, musician
- Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter
- C. Cameron Macauley, photographer and filmmaker
- Luis Mandoki, film director
- Bill Martin, visionary artist
- Paul McCarthy (1968)
- Darrell McClure cartoonist
- Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
- Frank Moore, performance artist, painter, poet, essayist and 2008 presidential candidate
- Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973
- Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
- Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
- Catherine Opie, photographer
- Guy Overfelt, conceptual / performance / new genres
- Mark Pauline, founder and director of Survival Research Labs
- Ernest Peixotto, muralist and travel writer
- Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
- Peter Reginato, sculptor
- Jason Rhoades, sculptor
- Jimmy Swinnerton, cartoonist
- Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
- Leo Valledor, painter
- William T. Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow
- Griff Williams, painter, founder of Gallery 16 and Urban Digital Color
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