Class of 2020

The Yale School of Art celebrates and applauds its graduating class of 2020. While this year’s in-person commencement exercises have been postponed, the School of Art wishes to commemorate the conferral of degrees to the class of 2020.

For our students who wish to participate, along with your friends and family, we extend an invitation to join an online day of recognition featuring speaker Gregg Bordowitz and a performance by Alicia Hall Moran.

The event was broadcast on this page on Monday May 18 at 1PM.

Graphic Design

Kyla Birgitta Arsadjaja

Maria Laura Candanoza Hurtado

Jinwoo Hong

Zhiyan Huang

Laura M. Huaranga

Cindy Yuan Hwang

Dawoon Jeon

Jeong Woo Kim

Tuan Quoc Pham

Steven Francisco Allen Rodriguez

Julia Laura Schäfer

Yuanbo Wang

Bryant David Wells

Nicholas Stratton Weltyk

Samuel Douglas Wood

Orysia Zabeida

Wenwen Zhang

Painting/Printmaking

Edd Ravn Arnold

Hangama Atiqullo Amiri

James Bartolacci

Timothy Gustin Brawner

Kevin I. Brisco, Jr.

Mariel Joan Capanna

Jose David Chavez-Verduzco

Taylor L. Clough

Krystal Elisa DiFronzo

Sara Emsaki

Trevon L. Latin

Naomi Loubna Lisiki

Victoria Martinez

Aryana Minai

Africanus Okokon

Jose de Jesus Rodriguez Jauregui

María de los Àngeles Rodríguez Jiménez

Kern Samuel

Carly Sheehan

Rebecca Elliot Shippee

Kathia L. St. Hilaire

Chiffon Chanel Thomas

Ye Qin Zhu

Photography

Angela Chen

Deangelo Mortez Christian

Robert Andy Coombs

Rory William Hummingbird Hamovit

Elizabeth Ann Meredith Hibbard

Dawoon Dawn Kim

Morgan Rachel Levy

Jane Lowe

Allison Teresa Minto

Jiajun Wang

Sculpture

Genevieve Katherine Fondaras Goffman

Lauren Jeyoon Lee

Efrat Rachel Lipkin

Randi Renate Margarete Mabry

Brianna Alvina Miller

Peyton Peyton

David Alexander Roy

Samuel Kent Shoemaker

Karinne Victoria Smith

Anne Wu

Alexander Zak

Gregg Bordowitz is an award-winning artist, writer, and activist. His work is the subject of a traveling retrospective spanning thirty years of activity: I Wanna Be Well, organized by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, and presented at MoMA PS1 and the Art Institute of Chicago. His films including Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993); A Cloud in Trousers (1995); The Suicide (1996); Habit (2001); Gimme Danger (2018) and Only Idiots Smile (2018) have shown internationally in screenings and exhibitions at museums. Bordowitz is the author of many books, including: The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003, (MIT 2006); Glenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man) (Afterall 2018); General Idea Imagevirus (Afterall 2010); Volition (Printed Matter 2013); and Tenement (MoMA PS1 2016). In addition, Bordowitz has published numerous catalog and journal essays on art, literature, AIDS, and their intersections.

Bordowitz was a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP, and a founding member of the 1980’s video/film collectives Testing the Limits and Diva TV. In 2006, Bordowitz received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art journalism from the College Art Association, and he is also the recipient of a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. A long-time faculty member of the Independent Study Program (ISP) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Bordowitz is the Director of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mezzo-soprano/composer Alicia Hall Moran conjures a sonic world where classical and contemporary culture bind. Praised by The New York Times for “imaginative recontextualization of classical singing,” her Broadway debut was the Tony-winning revival Porgy and Bess, starring as ‘Bess’ for the 20-city tour. The LA Times wrote, “She finds the truth of the character in her magnificent voice.” Fellowships and residencies include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum residency, MASSMoCA, National Sawdust, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Ford Foundation/Art For Change, Hayden Visiting Artist/Yale Art Gallery, Creative Associates at The Juilliard School, and a new appointment as Artist Faculty at New England Conservatory. With two albums (Here Today, and Heavy Blue) released to high praise, her performance works include Black Wall Street, (inspired by the Wall Street career of her father and Tulsa Massacre of 1921) and Breaking Ice (about figure skating and opera). Her setting of Motown as opera, first commissioned by The Kitchen in 2009, will be presented by Holland Festival this summer.

Past collaborators include: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, curator Okwui Enwezor, Carrie Mae Weems, Adam Pendleton, Ragnar Kjartansson, Suzanne Bocanegra, Joan Jonas, Whitfield Lovell, Xaviera Simmons, Rashida Bumbray, Simone Leigh, Liz Magic Laser. Past commissions include Museum of Modern Art, Art Public for Miami Art Basel, Histories Remixed for Art Institute Chicago, Poetry Society of America, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus. In collaboration with husband, pianist Jason Moran, she’s co-produced works for Carnegie Hall (Two Wings: The Migration of Black Music in America), Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Walker Art Center, and Philadelphia Museum of Art