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Art

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

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Portrait of student: Misty EunJoo Choi

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

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Portrait of student: Ayla Kala Gizlice

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.

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Portrait of student: Dylan Anthony Gonzales

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.

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Bachelor of Arts

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I paint to translate emotion and identity, blending Afghan heritage with gesture, color, and rhythm. Creating a personal language where words often fail me.

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Portrait of student: Kit Bradley

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.

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Portrait of student: Toby Kyle Britton

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

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Portrait of student: Sophia Suh-Whee Choi
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Portrait of student: Avery Nia Eliza Collins-Byrd

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

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Portrait of student: Tyra	Hanna Dios

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.

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Portrait of student: Dolores Tonantzin Flores

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.

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Portrait of student: Holland Fox

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

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Portrait of student: Macdalah Frederic Fry

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.

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Portrait of student: Colby Wade Golightly

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.

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Portrait of student: Helena Emerita Gomez

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

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Portrait of student: Olivia Rose Greer

Multidisciplinary artist exploring tech, spirit, and self—creating immersive work that confronts perception and the need for healing.

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Through a bold cartoon style that uses humor, crudity, and exaggeration; I reflect on themes like gender violence, colonization, religious trauma, and self-identity.

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Portrait of student: Sophie Ava Lattu

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.

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Portrait of student: Shiyu Liu

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

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Portrait of student: Yue Long

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

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Portrait of student: Nkosi Jelani Nesmith-Nelson

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

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Portrait of student: Daeton Abalos Oclaray

I am an interdisciplinary artist born in Hawaii, working with oil paint, charcoal, and archival video to produce layers of figurative representation.

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Yulong Pan explores displacement, fragmented identity, and surveillance through layered compositions and experimental materials across painting and installation.

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Portrait of student: Haven Park

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

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Portrait of student: Maya Rose Porche

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

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Portrait of student: Milo Jaye Ryder
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Portrait of student: Taylor Renee Sanders

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

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Portrait of student: Darlene Sanzon

My work aims to capture my subjects essence as well as the environment to transport the viewer to that moment.

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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.

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Portrait of student: Sarah Evangeline Sutherland-Field
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