44 Notable alumni of Maryland Institute College of Art
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Maryland Institute College of Art is ranked #3,442 in the world and #904 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from Maryland Institute College of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Maryland Institute College of Art won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Selma L. Oppenheimer
1898-1988 (aged 90)
painter
artist
Selma Levy Oppenheimer was an artist from Baltimore.
2. Jim Condron
1970-. (aged 56)
painter
sculptor
Jim Condron is an American artist working in painting and sculpture. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Baltimore, MD.
3. Jim Radakovich
painter
sculptor
Jim Radakovich is an American sculptor and painter living and working in New York City. He was a key figure in the East Village art scene in New York from 1982 to 1987 often showing together both Neo-Surrealist paintings and totem-like sculpture. He frequently exhibited with other artists who emerged at the time, including Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, George Condo,...
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4. Joseph Maxwell Miller
1877-1933 (aged 56)
sculptor
Joseph Maxwell Miller was an American sculptor.
5. Juan Logan
1946-. (aged 80)
artist
university teacher
Juan Logan is an American artist from Nashville, Tennessee. His paintings, sculptures, and installations are reflective of his experiences of racial and institutional power structures in the South and prompt viewers to consider social responsibility.
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6. John Ennis
1953-. (aged 73)
painter
John Ennis is an American painter. Ennis is a portrait painter and former book-cover illustrator; his paintings currently hang in over 100 fine art collections worldwide. He has over a thousand published book cover illustrations to his credit.
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7. Leslie Smith III
1985-. (aged 41)
artist
Leslie Smith III is a contemporary African American visual artist. He currently lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin.
8. Larry Poncho Brown
1962-. (aged 64)
artist
Larry "Poncho" Brown is an American artist, who began as a sign painter professionally, and has worked in both painting and sculpture. He has also worked as a curator. His work has been shown in exhibitions, television series, and multi-disciplinary art pieces.
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9. Edward Berge
1876-1924 (aged 48)
sculptor
Edward Henry Berge was an American sculptor. He is mainly known for his bronze monumental works and figures, created in the traditional manner in contrast with the avant-garde work of his contemporaries.
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10. Jeorge Bennett Watson
1965-. (aged 61)
actor
Jeorge Bennett Watson is an American actor. He has appeared in television shows including Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Organized Crime, FBI: Most Wanted, For Life, Luke Cage, Shameless, Justified, The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street. He has also appeared in several indie and short films. He currently resides in New York City.
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11. Janet Werner
1959-. (aged 67)
painter
artist
Janet Werner is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her work is known for its incisive and playful depictions of female figures, raising questions about the nature of the subject in painting.
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12. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
1987-. (aged 39)
painter
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, also known as Olomidara Yaya, is an American artist and author. She was previously an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice. Her work focuses on questions of race, sexuality, and history through a variety of visual and textual mediums. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Notable works include...
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13. Charles Yardley Turner
1850-1918 (aged 68)
painter
Charles Yardley "C. Y." Turner was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. His genre scenes and American historical paintings were popularized through engravings and book illustrations.
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14. Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
1980-. (aged 46)
animator
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is a visual artist. Her practice includes drawing, painting, installation, and animation. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including The Curve Space at The Barbican, The Hague, and the Centre for Fine Arts Bozar.
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15. Gwen Lux
1908-1986 (aged 78)
teacher
sculptor
Gwen Lux Creighton, professionally Gwen Lux, was an American sculptor known for her abstraction and frequently constructed from polyester resin concrete and metals. She was among America's pioneer women sculptors.
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16. Deana Haggag
1987-. (aged 39)
curator
Deana Haggag is an American arts organization leader. She is the Program Director for Arts and Culture at Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Formerly, Haggag was the President and CEO of United States Artists, and was Executive Director of The Contemporary (2013–2017) in Baltimore, Maryland.
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17. Hugh Bolton Jones
1848-1927 (aged 79)
painter
Hugh Bolton Jones was an American landscape painter. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received his early training as an artist. While studying in New York he was strongly influenced by Frederic Edwin Church of the Hudson River School. After spending four years in Europe he settled in New York in 1881, where he shared a studio with...
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18. Andrea Chung
1978-. (aged 48)
artist
Andrea Chung is an American artist born in Newark, NJ and currently works in San Diego, CA. Her work focuses primarily on island nations in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; specifically on how outsiders perceive a fantastic reality in spaces deemed as “paradise”. In conjunction, she explores relationships between these cultures, migration, and labor - all within the...
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19. Carter
1970-. (aged 56)
visual artist
painter
film director
screenwriter
John Carter is an American multidisciplinary, conceptual artist and film director, using the professional name Carter for his artworks. He is based in New York City.
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20. Henry Arthur McArdle
1836-1908 (aged 72)
painter
cartographer
Henry Arthur McArdle was an American painter of French and Irish descent. He was born in Belfast, Ireland on June 9, 1836, and immigrated as a teenager to the U.S. state of Maryland, where he studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the American Civil War he was a cartographer in the service of Robert E. Lee. After...
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21. Shinique Smith
1971-. (aged 55)
painter
artist
installation artist
sculptor
textile artist
Shinique Smith is an American visual artist, known for her colorful installation art and paintings that incorporate found textiles and collage materials. She is based in Los Angeles, California.
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22. Heather Day
1989-. (aged 37)
painter
Heather Day is an American artist based in California.
23. Juan Fernando Bastos
1958-. (aged 68)
painter
Juan Bastos is an Venezuela-American portrait artist of Bolivian descent who also creates other representational art, including pieces that utilize mythology and symbolism. He works primarily in painting and drawing and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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24. Betty Cooke
1924-2024 (aged 100)
jewelry designer
interior designer
Catherine Elizabeth Cooke was an American designer principally known for her jewelry. She has been called "an icon within the tradition of modernist jewelry" and "a seminal figure in American Modernist studio jewelry". Her pieces have been shown nationally and internationally and are included in a number of museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York....
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25. James Kochalka
1967-. (aged 59)
comics creator
comics artist
penciller
James Kochalka is an American comic book artist, writer, animator, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In...
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26. Wucius Wong
1936-. (aged 90)
painter
poet
draftsperson
Wucius Wong is a Hong Kong Chinese ink painter and lead figure of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement. He has worked to bring attention to Hong Kong's efforts in Chinese contemporary art, and was one of the first artists to bring modernism to the region.
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27. William Henry Rinehart
1825-1874 (aged 49)
artist
sculptor
William Henry Rinehart was a noted American sculptor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style."
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28. Frances Quinlan
1986-. (aged 40)
singer
Christine Frances Quinlan is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist best known for fronting Philadelphia indie rock band Hop Along.
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29. Susan Lowe
1948-. (aged 78)
actor
film actor
Susan Lowe is an American actress, educator and painter. She has appeared almost exclusively in the works of John Waters for most of her career, starring in ten of his films.
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30. Jen Stark
1983-. (aged 43)
artist
sculptor
Jen Stark is a multi-media American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Stark is best known for creating optical art using psychedelic colors in patterns and drips that mimic intricate motifs found in nature. On March 26, 2021, Stark became a notable NFT maker when Farzin Fardin Fard (3fmusic) won a bid to buy her piece Multiverse...
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31. Yumi Hogan
1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher
politician
artist
Yumi Hogan is a Korean–American artist. She served as the first lady of Maryland as wife of Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2023, and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state and the first Asian American first lady in the history of Maryland.
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32. Frank Cho
1971-. (aged 55)
screenwriter
comics artist
writer
Frank Cho is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. Cho is noted for his figure drawing, precise lines, and depictions of curvaceous women.
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33. Sarah Andersen
1992-. (aged 34)
visual artist
illustrator
cartoonist
Sarah C. Andersen is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the webcomics Sarah's Scribbles and Fangs. Currently based in Portland, Oregon, she has collaborated with artists and writers like Andy Weir over the course of her career, and has been recently noted for her public opposition to the rise of text-to-image models and generative AI illustrations.
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34. Jeff Koons
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
sculptor
jewelry designer
painter
collagist
Jeffrey Lynn Koons is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices...
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35. N.D. Stevenson
1991-. (aged 35)
comics writer
television producer
screenwriter
illustrator
voice actor
Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson, known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer. He is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which ran from 2018 to 2020. He is also known for the science fantasy graphic novel Nimona, as co-writer of the comic series Lumberjanes, and...
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36. Abbi Jacobson
1984-. (aged 42)
film actor
podcaster
film director
television actor
actor
Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name. She is a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022), in which she also stars as Carson Shaw,...
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37. Joyce J. Scott
1948-. (aged 78)
teacher
beadworker
jewelry designer
decorative artist
artist
Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass...
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38. Ellen Lupton
1963-. (aged 63)
writer
graphic designer
curator
museum professional
Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30...
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39. Pat Ward Williams
1948-. (aged 78)
installation artist
photographer
university teacher
Pat Ward Williams is an African-American photographer whose work often engages with the complexities of race, gender, and history. In addition to her smaller-scale photographs and installations, she has designed three public artworks in Los Angeles.
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40. Cheryl D. Miller
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
designer
Cheryl D. Holmes Miller is an American graphic designer, Christian minister, writer, artist, theologian, and decolonizing historian. She is known for her contributions to racial and gender equality in the graphic design field, and establishing one of the first black-women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984.
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41. Dorothy Gillespie
1920-2012 (aged 92)
artist
sculptor
Dorothy Gillespie was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. She was artist in residence at the Women's Interart Center in New York City. A pioneer for women in the arts, she had a career spanning over 70 years as an activist, lecturer and mentor to creative women throughout the world....
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42. Mina Cheon
1973-. (aged 53)
artist
Mina Cheon is a Korean American new media artist and scholar, producer and curator of cultural projects. Since 1997, she has lived between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. MJ Standup Korean is the comedic stage name of Mina Cheon, a prominent Korean-American "Polipop" (Political Pop) artist, professor, and scholar based in New York.
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43. Takeshi Yamada
1960-. (aged 66)
artist
Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist.
44. Tom Smith
1984-. (aged 42)
painter
television producer
Thomas Michael Henry Smith (born 29 April 1981) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, songwriter, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Editors.
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