School of Visual Arts - Notable Instructors

Notable Instructors

Animation

• Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez – musician, animator, author and artist

Art history

• Donald Kuspit – author of numerous books, including The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist; The Dialectic of Decadence
• Robert C. Morgan – art critic
• Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
• Jerry Saltz – former head art critic, Village Voice, currently writes for New York

Cartooning

• Jessica Abel – graphic novelist, La Perdida
• Sal Amendola – comic book artist primarily associated with DC Comics
• Will Eisner – comics legend whose SVA courses led to his famous books Comics & Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative
• Tom Hart – cartoonist/writer, Hutch Owen
• Carmine Infantino – writer and editor during the silver age of comic books
• Phil Jimenez – illustrator on Wonder Woman, New Xmen, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, JLA-Titans, Planetary/Authority
• Klaus Janson – a veteran of several Batman comics, including The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Black and White, and Batman: Gothic
• Harvey Kurtzman – cartoonist, editor, and founding editor of Mad magazine
• Matt Madden – cartoonist/writer known for works such as Odds Off
• Jack Markow - cartoonist, originator of the course in magazine cartooning
• Rick Marschall – writer-editor, Nemo, the Classic Comics Library
• David Mazzucchelli – illustrator of such works as Batman: Year One and creator of Asterios Polyp
• Joe Orlando – artist-editor, vice president of DC Comics, associate publisher of Mad
• Gary Panter – cartoonist/writer, Jimbo in Purgatory
• Walter Simonson – worked on Thor and X-Men-related comics
• Art Spiegelman – comics artist, editor and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus
• Bhob Stewart – comics for The Realist, Charlton, DC, Marvel and Warren Publishing
• Sam Viviano – contributor and art director at Mad magazine

Fine arts

• Richard Artschwager – sculptor and designer
• Alice Aycock – creator of large, architectural sculptures; solo exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art.
• Lynda Benglis – innovator of materials in the 1970s; feminist icon.
• Robert Beauchamp - painter
• John Button - painter
• Dan Christensen – painter
• Michael Goldberg – painter
• Eva Hesse – sculptor
• Joseph Kosuth – conceptual artist
• Ronnie Landfield – painter
• Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt – artist
• Michael Loew – painter
• Robert Mangold – painter
• Brice Marden – painter
• Keith Milow – artist
• Marilyn Minter – exhibitions include Salon 94 (NY), Whitney Biennial 2006.
• Elizabeth Murray (artist) – painter
• Joseph Nechvatal – digital art and theories of virtual reality.
• Joel Shapiro – sculptor
• Carolee Schneemann – artist
• Barbara Schwartz – artist
• Marjorie Strider – sculptor
• Jack Whitten – painter
• Neil Williams – painter
• Larry Zox – painter

Graphic design

• Edward Benguiat – calligrapher and type designer who created over 600 typeface fonts, such as Barcelona and Bookman, and who has designed the logos for periodicals such as The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, teaches typography.
• Milton Glaser – designer who created the famous "I love NY" logo.
• Steven Heller - co-founder of the school's MFA "Designer as Author" program.
• Debbie Millman – partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands
• Stefan Sagmeister – award-winning graphic designer based in NYC
• Paula Scher – graphic designer and principal at the Pentagram design consultancy. Created redesigns of the Citibank and Tiffany brands; her work is featured in the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• James Victore – independent graphic designer
• KAWS – graffiti artist, limited-edition clothing and toy designer

Illustration

• Ray DiPalma – poet and visual artist
• James McMullan – illustrator and designer
• John Sheridan – poster artist and magazine cover illustrator
• Robert Weaver – pioneering American illustrator from the '50s
• George Woodbridge – American illustrator known for his exhaustive research and historical accuracy, with exacting expertise in drawing military uniforms

Photography

• Guy Aroch – photographer, BFA photography department professor
• Marco Breuer – photographer
• Elinor Carucci – photographer, BFA photography department professor
• Laurel Nakadate – video artist, photographer, BFA photography department professor
• Stan Shaffer – photographer
• Amy Stein – photographer
• Amy Taubin – film critic, former curator of video and film at The Kitchen, MFA Photography Video and Related Media department.
• Jerry Yulsman – photographer (Playboy, Collier's, Look) and novelist (Elleander Morning)

Filmmaking

• Roy Frumkes – screenwriter and independent filmmaker
• Bob Giraldi - director and independent filmmaker
• Chris Newman – sound engineer, three-time Academy Award winner and five-time nominee, sound mixer/director. Film credits include The Godfather, Amadeus, The Exorcist, The Silence of the Lambs, and The English Patient
• Lew Schwartz, founder of film department and former Batman artist and Emmy Award winning film-maker
• Amy Taubin – curator, film critic and filmmaker (Film Comment, Millennium Film Journal, Artforum, Premiere, L.A. Weekly, Sight and Sound, The Village Voice)

MFA Computer Art

• Lillian Schwartz – Visiting Scholar