Notable Former Faculty
- Kathy Acker.
- Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945.
- Roy Ascott, Dean 1975-1978.
- Blixa Bargeld, musician (2008).
- Charles Boone, composer.
- Stan Brakhage, filmmaker.
- John Collier (anthropologist), visual anthropologist
- Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer.
- Angela Davis (1976).
- Howard Fried, installation, performance, video artist, founded the New Genres department.
- Doug Hall.
- Wally Hedrick.
- Pirkle Jones, photographer.
- Pat Klein, painter.
- George Kuchar (1972–2011), filmmaker.
- Dorothea Lange, photographer.
- Leo Lentelli, sculptor.
- Janis Crystal Lipzin, film/photo artist.
- Lydia Lunch.
- Arthur Frank Mathews, muralist, painter.
- Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907).
- Bruce Nauman, Process & Conceptual Art.
- Suzanne Olmsted, artist, photographer, printmaker.
- Charlemagne Palestine.
- Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947).
- John Rapko, philosopher of art.
- Mark Rothko, painter (1947).
- Richard Shaw, ceramic sculptor.
- Hassel Smith, painter.
- Ralph Stackpole, sculptor, painter.
- Clyfford Still, painter (1946).
- Larry Sultan, photographer
- Minor White, photographer.
- Al Wong, filmmaker.
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