Image Text Faculty and Visiting Artists
The department's Image Text faculty brings a wide variety of creative and critical practices to the program. Working contemporary artists who publish and exhibit their work in national and international contexts, our faculty and visiting artists are dedicated to innovative approaches to pedagogy and ways of making and knowing that value psychologically, culturally, and politically engaged work.
Andres Gonzalez
Visiting Artist 2025
Andres Gonzalez is a visual artist based in Vallejo, California. He has published three books, Some(W)Here (self-published, 2012), American Origami (Fw:Books, 2019), which won the Light Work Photo Book Award and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture Book Awards, and I'll Let You Be In My Dreams If I Can Be In Yours (MACK, 2024), a collaborative work with longtime partner Carolyn Drake.
His work has been profiled in The Guardian, the British Journal of Photography, TIME magazine, and NPR, and has received recognition from the Pulitzer Center and the Alexia Foundation. He is a Fulbright Fellow, and his work has also been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen in Berlin, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, where he collaborated with the Columbia College theater department and members from Tectonic Theater Project on a theatrical adaption of American Origami.
Michael Ashkin, Stephanie Barber, Veronica Gerber Bicecci, Lucas Blalock, Nydia Blas, Dannielle Bowman, Bruno Ceschel, Matthew Connors, Mónica De La Torre, Shannon Ebner, Charlie Engman, Tonya Foster, Jason Fulford, Renee Gladman, David Hartt, Whitney Hubbs, Erica Hunt, Lucy Ives, John Keene, Dawn Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Laura Letinsky, Lesley A. Martin, Mark Armijo McKnight, Shala Miller, Mark Nowak, Ahndraya Parlato, Kanthy Peng, Res, Claudia Rankine, Mariela Sancari, Drew Sawyer, Keisha Scarville, Elana Schlenker, Paul Soulellis, Elvia Wilk, Carmen Winant, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and others.