Michelle M. Vara’s work is visually diverse, structurally intriguing and tactilely rich.
Judith is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed media, film, photography and words.
Stephanie Reid is an interdisciplinary artist whose focus on fine art and photography lead into film making, video, animation / effects, and sound as mediums for more complex storytelling.
Josephine Turalba, born in Manila, Philippines is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates intersecting layers of different media: performance, sculpture, video, sound, photography.
Primarily a representational painter, Mains uses art objects to initiate dialogue and experiences.
KP Pradeepkumar is an artist whose works revolve around memoirs in an extensive logic of narrative in which paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture are fuse with visual testimony as an ongoing process of deceptive self-representation in order to reconstruct the past and an artist myths in present.
Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist who has resided and maintained her art practise in Victoria, Canada since 2004. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Louis Laberge-Côté is a Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director. An acclaimed performer, he has danced nationally and internationally with over 20 companies, and has been a full-time member of Toronto Dance Theatre (1999-2007) and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009-2011).
Derek Owens is a professor of English at St. John's University, New York, where I direct the Institute for Writing Studies.
Anne Labovitz (born 1965) is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound.
Daniel Arnaldo-Roman, a Puerto Rico-based media artist, works in code technology and experimental media and also designs responsive web environments and social print based projects.
Syowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader
Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.
Abi Tariq
Communications Director
Abi Tariq is an artist and cultural worker born in Karachi and based in Paris. Tariq holds a Masters of Fine Art from Transart Institute (Berlin/NY), a Bachelor of Fine Art from Parsons Paris (now Paris College of Art), and a Pakistani passport! Since 2023 they've taken on the role of Communications Director at Transart Institute.
Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, of German Jamaican Parentage, was brought up in England, China and Cyprus, and thus has an international range of cultural influences. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations and the Transart Institute (MFA) Sonia has shown her work at the NGBK Berlin, the OCCA California, the Format Follow Contemporary in Milan, The Museum of the Sea in Italy and the National Gallery in Jamaica.
Renee Brown is a multidisciplinary artist that is driven by direction given to her in her dream life. Over the last two decades Renee’s art praxis has been informed by her investigation into metaphoric dream analysis methodology. She delves into the metaphoric meaning of dream elements through research meditation and revelation. Currently she responds to her nocturnal life through dream journals, spontaneous drawings, abstract paintings, sculpture and video installation. A commitment to ritual, reception and direction from her personal dreamlife drives her practice.
Christopher Danowski (PhD) is a theatre and performance artist. He has written over fifty plays, directed, and performed in living rooms, galleries, and unusual spaces (sometimes in theaters). He was artistic director of Theater in My Basement from 1999-2013, and now serves as a founding member of Howl Theatre Project. He is based in Phoenix and his work has been shown locally, in New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Yucatán, Mexico City, Dublin, Laval, Vienna, Berlin, and Kraków.
Leah Decter is an inter-media artist and scholar based in Winnipeg; Treaty 1 territory. Her artwork, research and writing focus on contested spaces, largely contending with histories and contemporary conditions of settler colonialism and systems of white dominance from a critical white-settler perspective. Her current artistic/research-creation projects address social-spatial dynamics of settler colonial contexts and consider the ethics of being-in-relation in spaces of Indigenous sovereignty. Her current research and writing focus on arts-based critical white settler methodologies that aim to contribute to the goals of decolonial, non-colonial and anti-racist movements.
David Dunn is a composer and artist who primarily engages in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. Dunn is internationally known for his articulation of frameworks that combine the arts and sciences towards practical environmental activism and problem solving.
Sarah Jane Eaton is an artist who works with portraiture, costuming, collage, and performance. She received her undergraduate degree of Fine Art from Utah State University in 2011 and began her MFA with Transart Institute in 2018. Her artistic practice explores the relationships she finds with her family, her models, the materials and herself. She lives and practices in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Allison Geremia is a current professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts and also a practicing jeweler. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Plymouth through Transart Institute. Her dissertation examined contemporary jewelry of the United States and its sociological implications. She received her Masters at Parsons in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Khaled Hafez is born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the Cairo fine arts in the eighties. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992, he gave up medical practices in the early nineties for a career in the arts.
Victoria Hindley practices publishing as artistic practice. She is the Acquisitions Editor for Visual Culture and Design at the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and London, England). Her art practice includes internationally exhibited and featured artists' books, installations, and collaborative interventions.
Anne Livingston, a painter, writer, culinarian, and educator, holds a BA in Comparative Literature from University of Washington, a Master in Teaching from Seattle University, and an AAS in Culinary Arts from Seattle Culinary Academy. She’s an alumna of The Modern Color Atelier for painting at Gage Academy of Art.
Vanessa Lustig is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, textile art, and interactive textiles. Her work explores changing psychological, cultural, and natural contexts and situations, investigating themes of human identity & culture not as separate from nature, but as interacting elements of nature. She focuses on highlighting the smaller, subtle movements of natural, cultural, and human worlds, creating works that capture these delicate yet enduring fragilities by using both delicate & sturdy materials, technologically advanced techniques & craft techniques that result in minimal, delicate, quiet, yet immersive works.
Sheila Lynch is a Chicago-based inter-media artist who explores energy in the body and other landscapes through the porosity of their edges. Pieces are an expression of interactions with these internal and external energies. Her work includes drawing, painting, assemblage, photography, video and digitally manipulated drawings and photography.
