San Francisco Art Institute
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Notable current faculty
- Linda Connor, large-format photographer
- Trisha Donnelly
- Okwui Enwezor
- Sharon Grace
- Renee Green
- Hou Hanru
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Reagan Louie
- George Kuchar, filmmaker
- Tony Labat, performance artist
- Jane McGonigal, game theorist
- John Roloff
- Henry Wessel, Jr., one of the New Topography photographers
- Griff Williams
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Notable former faculty
- Kathy Acker
- Ansel Adams, landscape photographer, founded the photography department in 1945
- Imogen Cunningham, portrait photographer
- Angela Davis (joined 1976)
- Drew Daniel, member of Matmos
- Dorothea Lange, influential documentary photographer, "Migrant Mother"
- Lydia Lunch
- Frederick Meyer, founder of the California College of the Arts (1907)
- Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope (1880)
- Charlemagne Palestine
- Sidney Peterson, film director, initiated first film courses at SFAI (1947)
- M.C. Schmidt, member of Matmos
- Richard Shaw,ceramic sculptor
- Clyfford Still, Abstract expressionist, Color field painter (1946)
- Dean Roy Ascott (1975-78) pioneer [1] of art involving cybernetics and telematics, and founder of the Planetary Collegium
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Notable Alumni and Former Students
- Lance Acord, cinematographer (2003)
- Michael Arcega (1999)
- Devendra Banhart, musician
- Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore (1927)
- Joan Brown, painter
- Kathryn Bigelow, film director
- Emily Carr, painter
- Enrique Chagoya, printmaker
- Nate Conrad
- Michael Cotten (1971)
- Ronald Davis, painter
- Richard Diebenkorn, American abstract and figurative artist (1946/7)
- John Duff, sculptor
- Karen Finley, performance artist
- Fritz Fox, filmmaker, lead singer and songwriter of The Mutants
- Jerry Garcia, member of the Grateful Dead
- Robert Graham (sculptor)
- Percy Gray, painter
- Don Ed Hardy, tattoo artist
- Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
- Mike Henderson, painter, blues musician
- Penelope Houston, musician, lead singer and songwriter of The Avengers
- Grace Carpenter Hudson, painter of Pomo people
- Robert H. Hudson, sculptor
- David Ireland
- Rea Irvin, art editor of The New Yorker
- Sargent Johnson, sculptor (1919-1923)
- Alex Kahn, pageant performance artist, chief designer for New York's Village Halloween Parade
- Molly Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
- Eduardo Kingman, master Latin American painter
- Greg Kulz tattoo artist
- Laura Kipnis, author, media critic, professor at Northwestern University
- Henry Kiyama published The Four Immigrants Manga, the first graphic novel published in the U.S. (1931)
- Asya Komarova, photographer
- Ronnie Landfield, painter
- Courtney Love, actress and rock musician <ref>Entertainment Weekly, 1994: The Power of Love</ref>
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer (1973)
- Brendan Lott, painter (2001)
- Arthur Frank Mathews, painter
- Paul McCarthy (1968)
- Darrell McClure cartoonist
- Barry McGee (aka TWIST) painter/graffiti artist (1991)
- Frosty Myers, sculptor
- Errol Morris Documentary Filmmaker - attended in 1973
- Manuel Neri, sculptor (1958)
- Win Ng, co-founder of Taylor & Ng (1971)
- Catherine Opie, photographer
- Mark Pauline, founder and director of Survival Research Labs
- Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
- Peter Reginato, sculptor
- Jason Rhoades, sculptor
- Sally Rosenbaum, painter
- Katherine Sherwood, Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
- Jeremy Arlo Simmons, painter (2003)
- Gary Stephan, painter
- James Swinnerton, cartoonist
- Stephanie Syjuco, (1991)
- Christopher Vena, painter (2002)
- Carlos Villa, painter
- Leo Valledor, painter
- William T. Wiley, Guggenheim Fellow
- Griff Williams, painter, founder of Gallery 16 and Urban Digital Color
- Robin Winters, sculptor, painter
- Jonathan Yegge, performance artist, Catholic theologian (expelled 2000)
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- Marc Horowitz artist/writer/filmmaker/comic
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