Suzanne Bloom, Professor
BFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts & University of Pennsylvania
MFA, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Bloom came to the University of Houston in 1976 following six years of teaching at Smith College. She is the recipient of two NEA Artist's Fellowship Grants - one for Video in 1976 and one for Photography in 1978.
Since 1974 Bloom and Professor Emeritus Ed Hill have exhibited collaboratively as MANUAL (Ed Hill/Suzanne Bloom). Exhibitions including their digital photographs, videos, audio and programmed animations, and mixed media installations have been seen in 42 solo and over 200 group shows held in 14 countries, 30 states, and 90 cities. Their recent work includes a commission from the Hood Museum of Art to create time-based artwork in response to the Museum's collection. As a result, "Archive Fever," a database of 113 animated sequences ranging from 1 to 40 minutes, and "Opus CXXV," an hour long HD video, are now in their permanent collection.
MANUAL (Ed Hill/Suzanne Bloom) has been awarded an NEA/Rockerfeller Interdisciplinary Arts fellowship, an NEA Visual Artists Forum Grant, an NEA Artists Fellowship in Photography, and commissions from FotoFeis and the Scottish Arts Council, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County.
Stephan Hillerbrand,
Assistant Professor & Area Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Studies, Munich Art Academy
BFA, Southern Methodist Univeristy
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Ah Installation
C&M
Valve
The collaborative husband/wife team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand has been working together over the past several years after meeting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Their work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Their work has recently been in group exhibitions at LA Freewaves Film and Video Festival, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. They were awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Residency in New York City at The Woolworth Building, a residency at the Experimental Television Center and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award.
Stephan Hillerbrand's exhibitions include Nexus Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Artspace in New Haven and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Hillerbrand is a National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters Grant recipient and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He was a Fulbright Fellow for the German Technology and Education seminar and has been awarded a second Fulbright Fellowship to study at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
David L. Jacobs, Professor Art History and Photography/Digital Media
BA, University of Cincinnati
MA, University of Texas, Austin
PhD, University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Jacobs came to the University of Houston after serving in tenured positions at Wayne State University and the University of Texas, Arlington. From 1990 to 1996 he chaired the UH Art Department. He served as the editor of exposure, the quarterly journal of the Society for Photographic Education, from 1984-88. He is the recipient of several awards, including a grant for critical writing in the arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant for research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Senior Fulbright Award for research in Chinese photography and teaching at National Taiwan University in Taipei (2003-04).
With Barbara Tannenbaum, Dr. Jacobs curated Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary, an exhibition which traveled to six major museums in the early 1990s. The catalog (Rizzoli International, New York) for this exhibition included his essay "Seeing the Unseen, Saying the Unsayable: On Ralph Eugene Meatyard". More recently, he curated the first exhibition of graduate photography to be shown in the Peoples Republic of China at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2003, which included advanced student work from the University of Houston, the University of New Mexico, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has published dozens of essays, monographs, and reviews in Afterimage, exposure, New Art Examiner, The Archive, the History of Photography, Spot, and other periodicals. The forthcoming Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 2007) will include his essays on O.G. Rejlander, John Thomson, and 19th c. Photographic Self-portraits. He recently published his first novel, Green Gator Blues (2006) and is currently making photographs after a hiatus of many years. His photographic work was included in a juried international exhibition of current and former Fulbright artists that was held in Marrakech, Morocco in November, 2006.
Delilah Montoya, Associate Professor
Associate Degree, Metropolitan Technical College
BA, University of New Mexico
MA, University of New Mexico
MFA, University of New Mexico
Jackie
Lupano
Pink
Professor Montoya came to the University of Houston 2001 after teaching at both Smith College and Hampshire College for three years. Her work is grounded in the experiences of the Southwest and brings together a multiplicity of syncretic forms and practices from those of Aztec, Mexico and Spain, to cross-border vernacular traditions, all of which are shaded by contemporary American customs and values.
Montoya's numerous projects investigate cultural phenomena, always addressing and often confronting viewers' assumptions. Women Boxers: The New Warriors, a book project featuring a collection of portraits is such a project. Funded in part by the University of Houston Small Grants Program and Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County and was published though Arte Publico Press. The work was first exhibited during Fotofest 2006 at Project Row House, and later it traveled to Los Angeles, Santa Fe and Dallas where Charles Dee Mitchell reviewed it for Art in America.
Montoya's work has traveled with the International Center for Photography exhibition "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self" and "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum." Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her gallery affiliations are Andrew Smith Gallery, Patricia Correia Gallery, Photographs Do Not Bend and Redbud Gallery.
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