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Documentation of the 2024 Yale School of Art commencement, showing students standing and cheering from their seats in the YUAG courtyard.Documentation of the 2024 Yale School of Art commencement, showing students standing and cheering from their seats in the YUAG courtyard.
Yale School of Art’s 2024 commencement exercises. Photo: Adrian Martinez Chavez, Photography MFA ‘23.

The Yale School of Art celebrates its graduating class of 2025 with a commencement address by theorist and artist Eva Hayward.

Faculty Marshal: John Pilson, Senior Critic, Photography

Student Marshal: Helen Liene Dreifelds, Sculpture MFA

Banner Bearer: Brenda Barrios, Sculpture MFA

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Graphic Design

Fatima Al-Kuwari

Aylin Alakbarli

Jaamal Benjamin

Chuye Chen (JUICE)

Jiaqian Dai

Shiyun Deng

Theo France-Haggins

Saskia Seraphima Globig

Tomáš Hlava

Katie Johnson

Jeewon Kim

Wendy Li

Youngjin Park

Yixiao (Yi) Song

Tom Tang

Allison Yoon

Chaewon You

Coco Shiya Yuan

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Painting/Printmaking

Ana Cláudia Almeida

Bix Archer

Rosa Bozhkov

Claire (Won Jeong) Chey

Taína Cruz

Anietié Ekanem

Lauren Flaaen

Flores

Erol Scott Harris

Diego León

Rayer Ma

Rose McBurney

Paulina Moncada

Z.T. Nguyen

Hafsa Nouman

Haejin Park

Purvai Rai

Jam Yoo

Nadia Younes

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Photography

Vani Bhushan

David Billet

Bella Convertino

Olivia Crumm

Christopher Desanges

Luis Manuel Díaz

Jeremy Grier

Leor Miller

Aliaksandra Tucha

Yumeng Zhu

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Sculpture

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

Brenda Barrios

Helen Liene Dreifelds

Sam Frésquez

Alice Gong Xiaowen

Jesús Hilario-Reyes

Andrew Luk

Gozié Ojini

Alix Vernet

Omer Wasim

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The 2025 School of Art Commencement begins with Yale’s University-wide commencement exercises on Old Campus in New Haven on Monday, May 19. This event will be followed by the Yale School of Art Diploma Ceremony and Reception in the Sculpture Garden at the Yale University Art Gallery.

With their families and friends in attendance, graduates will hear addresses from Yale School of Art Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Kymberly Pinder and invited commencement speaker Eva Hayward.

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Blue and green abstract artwork image by Eva Hayward.Blue and green abstract artwork image by Eva Hayward.
Eva Hayward, “I am sick.”
Commencement speaker Eva Hayward is a theorist and artist who currently teaches at the University of New Mexico. Trained in the History of Consciousness tradition (UCSC, 2008), her scholarship focuses on science studies and visual culture with an emphasis on psychoanalytic semiotics. Hayward is a Fulbright Scholar (University of Graz, Austria) with postdoctoral fellowships at Duke University and Uppsala University (Sweden). She has taught at the University of California, University of Cincinnati, University of Arizona, and Utrecht University (Netherlands). While also publishing in feminist science studies (such as the journals Cultural Anthropology, differences, Parallax, and Angelaki), Hayward’s most recent art writings on “trans as sexuality” have been published in e-Flux, Porn Studies, Texte Zur Kunst, as well as in museum catalogues, including the Whitney Museum (NY), the Institute for Contemporary Art (LA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), and the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein (Vienna, AT). Hayward is currently finishing a book titled She Want that offers a theory of trans want, particularly the wanting of womanhood.

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