FACULTY ARTISTS
Skowhegan's Board of Governors, all working artists, invites a new faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists to campus each year to guarantee a diversity of perspectives.
Five Resident Faculty live on campus alongside the participants and an academic staff for the duration of the nine-week program. These artists are highly accomplished and represent a cross-section of the contemporary art world. The structure of Skowhegan's program is provided by one-on-one studio visits with each of the faculty members, and through the series of lectures given by the faculty over the summer.
Six Visiting Faculty complement the Resident Faculty by joining the community for shorter visits throughout the summer. The diversity within the faculty group helps allow discussions to be dynamic and substantive and much of the mentorship takes place outside of the formal studio visit hours. This is what sets Skowhegan apart as an experience.
2024 Resident Faculty
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Nicole Awai (A '97)
Nicole Awai was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and lives and works in New York. Awai’s multimedia, expansive painting and process works have often responded to the social, cultural, and economic interaction and histories of the Americas. Recent works that addressed the history and removal of Confederate and Colonial monuments in the Americas were featured in the New York Times newspaper editorial, Op-Art: Monuments for a New Era, followed by in the High Line Network Initiative’s exhibition, New Monuments for a New Cities, Monument Lab podcast, and the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
There has long been the presence of oozing materiality in Awai’s work that metaphorically is simultaneously the site of generation, destruction and rebirth and materially is the physical abundant resources of the Americas which includes the Black, Brown, and Yellow bodies that labored in its creation. She is currently a faculty member in the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York.
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Daniel Bozhkov (A '90, F '11, '16)
Daniel Bozhkov was born in Bulgaria and he is based in New York City. He is Associate Professor of Art, New Genres at Hunter College, The City University of New York. As an interdisciplinary artist, Bozhkov works across a variety of media and engages with professionals from different fields to activate public space. As a collaborator with reality, Bozhkov reuses mass-produced objects to provoke the powers of the banal, ridiculous and inconsequential. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department megastores and world-famous tourist sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor to produce new strains of meaning in seemingly closed systems.
Bozhkov has been awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; Andy Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been presented at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Queens Museum, and Artists Space in New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art in Los Angeles; Art House in Austin, Texas and Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has participated in international exhibitions such as the 33rd São Paolo Biennial, 6th Liverpool Biennial, 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, 9th Istanbul Biennial, and the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.
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Dana DeGiulio
Dana DeGiulio was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She is a painter and teacher whose practice pits materiality against representation. Her work in painting, drawing, moving image, installation, writing, and in teaching is about edges and touch and history and attention and tries to ask the means of what the ends are. She co-founded and co-operated the artist-run space Julius Caesar in Chicago for 7 years, put out a book of writing and recently a book of photographs, made animations for SFMoMA, shows paintings with Ermes Ermes in Rome and most recently at P.P.O.W. in New York,, and has been a committed itinerant adjunct professor of visual art for the last years. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, next to the window.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela (A '13)
Rodrigo Valenzuela (b.Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant; and Artist trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Recent residencies include: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for contemporary arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.