Art Studio Faculty

Faculty Profile

Shiva Ahmadi
Professor of Art

Painting and DrawingM.F.A. Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2005M.F.A. Drawing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2003B.F.A. Painting, Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 1998Appointed 2015
(530) 754-2916
Room 332, Art Building
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Faculty Profile

Cassils
Associate Professor of Art
Endowed Chair in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program

M.F.A., 2002, Art and Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Los AngelesBFA, 1997, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada1996, L'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, FranceAppointed 2026

Cassils is a Canadian transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances.

Cassils’ art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle, and empowerment. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.

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Beatriz Cortez
Professor of Art

SculptureM.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, 2015Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1999Appointed 2023

Beatriz Cortez (b. San Salvador, El Salvador) is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar. Her work explores simultaneity, multiple temporalities, speculative visions, and imaginaries of the future.

Room 326, Art Building
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Fidencio Fifield-Perez
Assistant Professor of Art

Painting and DrawingM.F.A. Painting and Drawing, Secondary Printmaking, The University of Iowa, 2015M.A. Painting and Drawing, Secondary Sculpture, The University of Iowa, 2014B.A. Memphis College of Art, 2013Appointed 2024

Fifield-Perez is an artist whose current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self-documents discarded after having fulfilled their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and painting are ways to visualize and connect mental landscapes of past and present.

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Faculty Profile

Robin Hill
Professor of Art

SculptureB.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute, 1977Appointed 2001
(530) 754-2592
Room 326, Art Building
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Darrin Martin
Co-Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Professor of Art

Video and Media ArtsM.F.A. University of California, San Diego, 2000B.F.A. NYSC, Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY, 1992Appointed 2005
(530) 754-2594
Room 304, Art Building
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Annabeth Rosen
Distinguished Professor of Art
Robert Arneson Endowed Chair

Ceramic SculptureM.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1981B.F.A. NYSC, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1978Appointed 1997
(530) 752-1794
TB 9
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Young Suh
Professor of Art

PhotographyM.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2001B.F.A. Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1998Appointed 2006
(530) 752-2704
Room 334, Art Building
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