Staff
Mark Gens
Assistant Chairperson of Fine Arts
Mark Gens is a multimedia artist whose work includes collage, installation, video, e-literature, sculpture, and critical writing. He lives, works, and writes in Brooklyn. Recently, Mark’s work was exhibited at Kraftwerk Bille (2022) and Galerie Postel (2021) in Hamburg, Germany. Mark was a Keyholder resident at The Lower East Side Printshop, NYC (2020-21). He has exhibited in many group exhibitions throughout the US. His paper A Critical Analysis of Art in the Post-Internet Era was published in Gnovis Journal (Spring 2017) A peer-reviewed journal from the Graduate Communication, Culture & Technology Department at Georgetown University. Additional work has been published in Caustic Frolic, a journal published by NYUs XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. In addition to his prolific studio practice, Mark has worked on community-building projects with NY City youth, prepared and presented LGBTQ+ materials and events at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, implemented art education workshops for incarcerated people at Rikers Island, and curated exhibits.
- MFA Pratt Institute, 2016, Fine Arts
- BFA Otis College of Art, 2014, Sculpture/New Genres
Jane South
Chair of Fine Arts
Born in Manchester, UK, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Switch Back (2020), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Shifting Structures: Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2013), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN and Shifting Structures: Stacks (2010), the New York Public Library, NY. Selected group exhibitions include the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NY, SLASH: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), NY; Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria; The Drawing Center, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. South’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, NY Arts Magazine, and The New Yorker. She is a contributor to the book “The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” (editor: Sharon Louden). Grants and residencies include Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009); Dora Maar House, Menérbes, France (2010); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008); New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018 South was elected to the National Academy of Design. South was awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Faculty
Michael Brennan
Cassils
Grayson Cox
Gaby Collins Fernandez
Gregory Drasler
Kelly Driscoll
Andrew Freiband
Joseph Fyfe
Langdon Graves
Yasunari Izaki
Catherine Le Cleire Wright
Steve Locke
Jennifer Mazza
Nat Meade
John Monti
Donna Moran
Carlos Motta
Matt Nolan
Caitlin Riordan
Jean Shin
Steven Sergiovanni
Laurel Sparks
Alex Strada
Adrienne Tarver
Christopher Verstegen
Cullen Washington Jr.
Lipika Bhargava
AICAD Fellow 2022-24
Lipika Bhargava (b.1993, New Delhi) is a multi-media artist working across ceramics, painting, textile, and performance. She is currently an AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow at Pratt Institute and Artist Fellow at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). She completed her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York on a full President’s Scholarship. Her practice is process-oriented and performative in mark-making drawing from her background in dance (Indian classical and contemporary).