Art
Art
Rodney McMillian, Department Chair
Rodney McMillian, Department Chair

The top-ranked university studio-art program nationally, the UCLA Department of Art empowers students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity. Committed to equity and inclusion in art, it attracts diverse, highly motivated students who are encouraged to engage society's challenges and envision change. Students work with a faculty of internationally recognized artists in rigorous studio courses, developing skills in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, New Genres, and Interdisciplinary Studio. Intensive making is augmented by courses in art history, critical theory, and a broad exposure to art in one of the world's leading cultural centers.
Master of Fine Arts

Misty EunJoo Choi is a LA-based artist exploring displacement and resistance through sculptural gestures that challenge norms with humor, dysfunction, and embodied tension.

I explore both the landscape and the body’s refusal to be mastered. I’m interested in fleeting things— secrets, a feeling in the body, temporary solutions, migration, decay.

D.A. Gonzales (b. 1995 Bakersfield, CA) is a photographer working in Los Angeles, his work focuses on the history of post-Mestizo whiteness in the context of California.
Bachelor of Arts
I paint to translate emotion and identity, blending Afghan heritage with gesture, color, and rhythm. Creating a personal language where words often fail me.
Latin Honors Candidate

I aim to make work and engage in constructive critique around transness, gender expression, my mixed identity, activism and how these relate to institutions and forces around me.

My art is a self-reflexive process of feeling, introspection, and transformation. I hope to create critical, compassionate, and sensitive dialogue through material transformation.


Across my work, I am interested in gathering marginal knowledge. Through performance, video, and photo, I play with time and chronology to disrupt stereotypes.

My work consists of paintings and sculptures. I work mainly in oil and plaster. My work explores themes of dream-like scenery and depicts light and airy colors.

Dolores, A.K.A. Ficklemore, is an agent of the grotesque. Her critiques of the food and wellness industries challenge our damage-control approach to the global rise of illness.
Latin Honors Candidate

Holland Fox is a painter and photographer whose practice explores the intersections of gender identity and sexual politics through self-portraiture and biography.

A big part of my art practice has been exploring my Haitian identity and navigating the cultural disconnection through different art forms, like painting and ceramics.

My work revolves around my relationship with my own queerness and grappling with the propaganda I was faced with growing up in Fort Worth, Texas.

Helena Gomez (b. 2004, Los Angeles) is a first-gen Chicana artist exploring identity, culture, and code-switching in multidisciplinary art and teaching practice.

Multidisciplinary artist exploring tech, spirit, and self—creating immersive work that confronts perception and the need for healing.
Through a bold cartoon style that uses humor, crudity, and exaggeration; I reflect on themes like gender violence, colonization, religious trauma, and self-identity.

My work focuses on structures as material bearers of experience and memory. I consider the human failures of containing and freezing time, space and experience.
Latin Honors Candidate

I explore the intersections of ecofeminism, memory, and materiality through sculpture, video, and textiles to examine the body's entanglement with nature and power.

Interdisciplinary artist exploring memory, identity, and sensory experience through film, photography, and installation rooted in everyday life and cultural reflection.

From Lawrenceville, Georgia, Nkosi is an artist who utilizes a critical eye to expose, contradict, or collapse social inventions/expectations through visual narratives.

I am an interdisciplinary artist born in Hawaii, working with oil paint, charcoal, and archival video to produce layers of figurative representation.
Yulong Pan explores displacement, fragmented identity, and surveillance through layered compositions and experimental materials across painting and installation.

I create images across mediums to explore how color evokes emotion—using visual storytelling to spark meaningful conversations about what we feel and why.
Cum Laude

Working in painting and ceramics to explore topics of the garden and COVID-consciousness


Using mostly photography & sculpture, my practice explores Black identity through culture & family & investigates the definition & visual language of Blackness & ideas of belonging

My work aims to capture my subjects essence as well as the environment to transport the viewer to that moment.
My work translates research into photos, sculptures, and writing that express poetics of the self through the language of measuring tools, technical images, and the landscape.

Latin Honors Candidate
