Low-Residency MFA: Alumni

Featured Alumni

Betelhem Makonnen (MFA 2019)

Notable Awards Received: Tito's Prize 2020; Austin Critics Table Award 2018, Best Gallery Exhibition, yo soy aqui / i am here; New Artist Society Merit Scholarship 2016, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist Website

Nyugen E. Smith (MFA 2016)

Notable Awards Received: 2020 Dr. Doris Derby Award (Dashboard); 2019 Visual Artist of the Year, Jersey City Arts Council; 2018 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant; 2018 Franklin Furnace Award; 2016 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship for the Performing and Visual Arts. 

Artist Website

Zsuzsanna Szegedi (MFA 2017)

Notable Awards Received: Modem Studio Residency Award, Hungary; Stella Jerome Prager Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Fellowship; Blanche E. Colman Award, Blanche E. Colman Foundation; Puffin Foundation Grant Award

Artist Website

Kioto Aoki (MFA 2017)

Isidore Bethel (MFA 2017)

Jenny Chernansky (MFA 2019)

Mark Dorf (MFA 2019)

Jane Foley (MFA 2020)

Assal (Priya) Gheysari (MFA 2020)

Jenna Grotelueschen (MFA 2020)

Jason Isolini (MFA 2021)

Ayo Jackson (MFA 2018)

Adam Kinner (MFA 2020)

Alison Kudlow (MFA 2019)

Lesley Bodzy (MFA 2021)

Jessica Mueller (MFA 2018)

Claire Pope (MFA 2017)

Sandrine Schaefer (MFA 2016)

Guadalupe Rosales (MFA 2016)

Galina Shevchenko (MFA 2018)

Katie Meservy Strader (MFA 2020)
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