Notable Alumni
Andy Warhol
At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting. Works created in this decade include Mao's, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos and Shadows and many commissioned portraits. Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, Warhol exhibited his work extensively in museums and galleries around the world.
The artist began the 1980s with the publication of POPism: The Warhol '60s and with exhibitions of Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century and the Retrospectives and Reversal series. He also created two cable television shows, "Andy Warhol's TV" in 1982 and "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" for MTV in 1986. His paintings from the 1980s include The Last Suppers, Rorschach's and, in a return to his first great theme of Pop, a series called Ads. Warhol also engaged in a series of collaborations with younger artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring. In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had a major retrospective of his works.
Following routine gall bladder surgery, Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987. After his burial in Pittsburgh, friends and associates organized a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York that was attended by more than 2,000 people.
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.
Philip Pearlstein (BFA 1949)
Philip Pearlstein was born in 1924 to a Pittsburgh surgeon, attended Taylor Allderdice High School, and was drafted in the spring of 1943 after one year at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University). By then, he was already something of a serious artist, with paintings winning awards from Scholastic magazine and being published in Life. During his World War II army service, he made many sketches and paintings of the Italian landscape. In 1949, he graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he was a classmate and roommate of Andy Warhol. He obtained a masters degree in art history in 1956 at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts and mounted his first solo exhibition at the Tananger Gallery. In 1958, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study a year in Rome. His work has been included in ten Whitney Museum of American Art exhibitions between 1956 and 1973. The Milwaukee Art Museum honored him with a retrospective exhibition in 1983 and accompanied the exhibition with a monograph on his complete paintings.
During the 1950s Pearlstein concentrated on landscape paintings of rocks and eroded cliffs, aiming for abstract patterns in the New York Abstract Expressionist style. In the 60s, he began to focus more on realist nudes that still strive for abstractly designed and assertive images. He is considered among the leading American realist painters of the second half of the 20th century. Pearlstein retrieves the complexity of the nude by emphasizing the physical peculiarities of his models while posing them as abstract compositions. Combined with the large format and painstaking detail, Pearlstein's nudes have a monumental strength and richness not seen since Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, combined with the hard edged, cool factuality of Pop Art and Minimalism.
His works are in major museum collections around the world including: Appleton Museum of Art, FL; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hunter Museum of American Art, TN; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO; National Academy of Design, NY; Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism at Duke University Museum of Art, NC; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska; and Turman Gallery at Indiana State University.
Pearlstein was an art instructor at the Pratt Institute (1959-63), a visiting critic at Yale University from 1962-63, and a distinguished professor of fine arts at Brooklyn College (1963-87). He continues to paint and exhibit and is represented by Robert Miller Gallery in NYC.
His portrait of former Carnegie Mellon President Richard Cyert hangs in Cyert Hall. Pearlstein has served as a member of the School of Art Advisory Board.
Antisentimental, antihumanist, antierotic, hostile to uncertainty, indifferent to the "psychology" of Expressionist figure painting and the existentialist doubt of AbEx: Pearlstein's work is unlike anything seen in American realism since Thomas Eakins.
- Robert Hughes, American Visions
Raymond Saunders (BFA 1960)
Raymond Saunders was born in Pittsburgh in 1934. His work has often dealt with imagery associated with the Black urban experience, which he incorporates into rich, mixed-media paintings. His art works are viewed in major museum collections throughout the world, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Saunders studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, earning a BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts degree) at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1960. In 1961, he received an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
Saunders has had solo exhibitions at The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Seattle Art Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA and at Hunter College in New York City. In addition, he has received such awards as the Prix de Rome, 1964-1966, and National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1977 and 1984, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976.
In the catalogue that accompanied Saunders' 1993 exhibition at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, the celebrated writer Toni Morrison wrote: "From an environment of the lost, the discarded, Saunders creates another wholly inscribed world of found things in which chalk and metal and paint and wallpaper and toys and insignia combine to destabilize and soothe us—then to change us altogether like a tropical medicine belt."
Mel Bochner (BFA 1962)
Mel Bochner grew up in Pittsburgh and is now considered a pioneer of Post-Minimal and Conceptual art. His work engages in a dialogue between practice (physical work) and theory (the pure idea). He has defined his subject as "the contradiction between physical space and mental space." Known for his paintings, sculptures, installations and drawings, he is a writer as well.
Bochner studied painting at Carnegie Mellon. After graduating, he traveled to Mexico and California before moving to New York City where his first conceptual art exhibition, Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art, opened in 1966 at the School of Visual Arts and was highly praised.
Refusing to accept the conventions of art history, he set out to eliminate the "object" in art, experimenting with word-drawings and number systems. For his Measurement series in the late 1960s, he used atypical art materials of black tape and Letraset to create line drawings accompanied by measurements directly onto walls, effectively making large-scale diagrams of the rooms in which they were installed. Bochner continued his installational line drawings into the 1970s and 1980s, but in 1983, he began painting again, producing irregular-shaped canvases that could be interpreted as meditations on drawing and the interrelation between the mind, eye and hand. In the 1990s, he investigated visual and perceptual systems of perspective.
In 2002, Bochner exhibited at Akira Ikeda Gallery in Berlin and Harvard's Sackler Museum, which organized an exhibit of photographs taken between 1966 and 1969, now reproduced in a book published by Yale University Press. This exhibit traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. He has exhibited at the Sonnabend Gallery for 30 years, and has had solo shows at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Ohio's Butler Institute of American Art and Carnegie Mellon.
Bochner's works can be found in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fogg Museum, Tate Gallery in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Several books have been written about him, including those published by the University of Rhode Island, Toselli, and the David Nolan Gallery. His numerous honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Skowhegan Medal for Mixed Media and the America Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. He received the College Art Association (CAA) Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work (1997) and was a resident at the American Academy in Rome (1992).
The mark, measure and merit of his work have made a considerable impact on the path of contemporary art. In November 2002, he received an Alumni Merit Award from Carnegie Mellon. He is currently a professor at Yale University and lives and works in New York City.
Nancy Hagin (BFA 1962)
Nancy Hagin received her M.F.A from Yale University in 1964 and has exhibited as a realist painter at: Alpha Gallery, Boston; Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York; J. Walter Thompson, New York; Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, PA; Allen Frumkin, New York; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Cambridge; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK. She is represented by Fischbach Gallery in New York City where she has had ten solo exhibits since 1981.
Hagin has won grants and awards from Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The National Academy of Design as well as a Fulbright Grant and the Emil and Dines Carlsen Award. She is a National Academician at the National Academy and Museum in New York City.
Publications including her work include: Color in Contemporary Painting, by Charles Leclair, and numerous reviews in Art News , The New York Times, Art in America, Arts, and American Artist.
Jonathan Borofsky (BFA 1964)
Jonathan Borofsky is a noted 20th century conceptual artist who currently produces public sculptures. From the early 1970s his central concern was to diminish the boundaries between life and art. From 1973 he made use of dreams, in drawings, paintings, sculptures, projected images, prints, and combinations of these in multi-media installations. Borofsky first exhibited at the Artists' Space, New York (1973), showing Counting (1969-), a serial project consisting of a stack of sheets of graph paper on which numbers from 1 to 1,800,000 were written in pencil and ink. An ongoing project, it continued to reappear in later shows under a custom-made plexiglass box; by September 1993 the numbers reached 3,200,000 and the stack was 1.28 m high. Borofsky taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, 1969-1977, and at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, 1977-1980. In the 80s, his video documentary, Prisoners, toured with his traveling show to major U.S. museums, Germany and Japan and now resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. During the 1990s, he completed over 20 public art installations, including a 100' tall version of Molecule Man for the Allianz insurance company in Berlin. In 2001, he finished an installation of flying people at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His 100 foot tall sculpture, Walking to the Sky, was temporarily installed at Rockefeller Center in New York City in September/October, 2004.
For a spring 2002 interview of Borofsky by Ann Curran, former editor of Carnegie Mellon Magazine, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/02spring/borofsky.html
Joyce Kozloff (BFA 1964)
Joyce Kozloff has been exhibiting in prestigious venues for four decades. She is featured in nearly every survey of late 20th century art or of women artists including Whitney Chadwick's Women, Art and Society, Daniel Wheeler's Art Since Mid-Century: 1945-Present, and Irving Sandler's Art of the Postmodern Era. Ms. Kozloff’s work is included in the one of the most prevalent modern art history textbooks, H.H. Arnason’s History of Modern Art (New York: Abrams, 1986) and in newer survey texts such as Shunichi Kurokawa’s New History of World Art (1996).
Her paintings are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum of Modern Art, and the Library of Congress. She exhibited recently with her husband, Max Kozloff in Crossed Purposes: Cultural Maps and Urban Streetscapes that originated at the Butler Museum of American Art and traveled to the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, NYC and The Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico in 2004. Kozloff's work is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York City, where she had a solo exhibit in 2003, reviewed in Art in America in 2004.
Joyce Kozloff has completed numerous public art commissions over the last two decades including: Dreaming: The Passage of Time for the United States Consulate, in Istanbul, 2003; the Chubu Cultural Center and Pear Museum in Kurayoshi, Japan, 2001; the floor of the National Airport, Washington, DC, 1996; Around the World on the 44th Parallel, Memorial Library, Mankato State University, Minnesota, 1995; The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles, Los Angeles Metro’s Seventh and Flower Station, California, 1993; Pasadena, the City of Roses, Plaza las Fuentes, Pasadena, California, 1990; and Underwater Landscapes, Home Savings of America Atrium, Irwindale, California, 1989.
Between 1992 and 1998, Ms Kozloff served as a member of the School of Art Advisory Board.
Deborah Kass (BFA 1974)
Deborah Kass remembers her undergraduate days at Carnegie Mellon as typical of the times, "insane and crazy." As part of a "contentious freshman class of merry pranksters", she hopped into a van with twelve other students on a cross-country trip to see Alan Kaprow in California, foregoing winter break with her family. According to Kass, the department was in transition and reflected the zeitgeist, with many new (and short-lived) faculty hires in an environment that was very "hippie and butch." One of her most memorable class assignments was taking part in a hitch-hiking race to Lexington, KY, (to which one of the aforementioned short-lived hires had relocated), documenting the experience with a video camera. Such experiences, coupled with intense immersion in the Carnegie Museum of Art where she was drawn to Cezanne and David Smith alike, convinced Kass that she "had the best art education in the world", despite the fact that no one appeared to go to class. It didn"t hurt that she lived in "an unbelievable loft of 3000 square feet over Streba's Garage with two walls of windows for $100 a month." Kass also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and now has work in major collections at MOMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
As an adolescent, Deborah Kass identified with Barbra Streisand and recalls the exhilarating moment of identification with "powerfulness, talent with being yourself and being different at the same time." Streisand became one of her favorite subjects, a key figure in her appropriation and revision of the pop culture of Andy Warhol (another Carnegie alumnus) and his successors. In her Jewish Jackie series, Kass displaced Warhol's favored celebrities, Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, with her own personal and cultural heroes, replacing Chairman Mao with Gertrude Stein and Warhol's enigmatic self-portrait with her own. Kass' The Warhol Project was begun in 1992, part homage, but more a potent commentary on pop culture's disregard for gender, ethnicity and sexual identity, a portrayal of the "other" America. An exhibition of this project was curated by Professor Michael Plante for the Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University and toured nationally under the auspices of Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management in New York. Other venues included University of Santa Barbara, University of Houston's Blaffer Gallery and University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Weatherspoon Art Gallery. With the conclusion of The Warhol Project, Kass commented wistfully, "Dissolving my partnership with Andy Warhol is a little tough." She is currently on a major hiatus and recharging herself for new projects.
Over the last decade, Kass has exhibited internationally at: the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum in NYC; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City; New Orleans Contemporary Art Center; Milwaukee Art Museum, Aspen Museum; Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; University Art Museum at University of California at Berkeley; and the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Not bad for someone who doesn't remember going to class!
(Reprinted from the 2001 School of Art Newsletter.)
Renee Stout (BFA 1980)
Renee Stout is a painter, sculptor and multi-media artist. She has received grants and awards from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, and she received an artists residency at Northeastern University in Boston through the Afro-American Artists in Residence Program. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, among others. In 2000, she had a solo exhibit and lectured at Maryland College Institute of Art. Her work has also been part of many group exhibitions including: American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in American Art, National Museum of American Art; Gather Visions: Selected Works of African-American Women Artists, Anacosta Museum of the Smithsonian Institution; and Art on the Edge: Metaphysical Metaphors, The High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Among the creative stimuli that lie behind Stout's art are the ritual objects of Africa and the empowering and healing agents of different spiritual systems. Her work is rich in both its physical texture and in its implications for human society.
John Currin (BFA 1984)
John Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he earned his M.F.A. in 1986 from Yale University. He had his first show in 1989 in New York at White Columns and is now represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery. His work has been included in the 1993 Venice Biennale and the 1999/2000 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.
John Currin's paintings have been shown widely in group and solo exhibitions since 1989. Group shows have included Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1995); Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts, Escondido (1996); Projects 60: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Heart, Body, Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990s and The Tate Gallery Selects: American Realities:Views from Abroad at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1997); Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Young Americans 2: New American Art, Saatchi Gallery, London (1998); John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999). Solo exhibitions of Currin's paintings have been presented at: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York since 1992; Fonds Regional d"Art Contemporain du Limousin, Limoges (1995); and Regen Projects, Los Angeles (1996, 1999). Recent exhibits that have featured his works include: Painting at the Edge of the World at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Drawing Now: Eight Propositions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Abrams will publish a monograph on his paintings and Taka Ishii Gallery will release of book of his drawings. He is married to sculptor Rachel Feinstein and works from a studio overlooking West 14th Street in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
In 2003, a mid-career retrospective of his work opened at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and traveled to Serpentine Gallery in England and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The following text is from the MCA's website: One of the most important artists to emerge in the last decade and one of several figurative painters to receive attention in the 1990s, John Currin fuses historical and contemporary styles and source materials to create strange and challenging images that examine the tradition of painting and the meaning of representational painting today. His influences range from Italian and Northern Renaissance painters and the genre scenes of Courbet to popular illustrations from the first half of the 20th century and the pages of current fashion magazines. Difficult to pin down, Currin's ambiguous works are as compelling as they are frustrating. His detached yet somewhat-sympathetic individual portrayals as well as his unsettling scenarios foster a psychological investigation of representation and desire. This survey, which will tour in the US and Europe, comprises 40 paintings from 1991 to the present and will be Currin's first one-person museum exhibition in the United States. John Currin in is co-organized by the MCA, Chicago, and the Serpentine Gallery, London, and is co-curated by MCA Associate Curator Staci Boris and Serpentine Chief Curator Rochelle Steiner.
Katharine Kuharic(BFA 1984)
Katharine was born in South Bend, Indiana. She studied further after Carnegie Mellon at the School of Visual Art in New York City in 1985. She currently lives in New York and in St. Louis, MO, where she is on the painting faculty at Washington University. For two years, in 2003 and 2004, she was the recipient of a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. In 1999, 1990 and 1988 she was the recipient of awards from the Penny McCall Foundation, Art Matters, Inc., and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation respectively. Kuharic has been exhibiting her paintings in galleries nationally since 1983 and recently had her third solo exhibition at P·P·O·W in New York City.
Rob Rogers (MFA 1984)
Rob Rogers' parents recognized their son's unique talent at an early age. Unfortunately, his talent was sticking Cheerios up his nose, which limited his career options. His parents were worried. Eventually, he became bored with breakfast cereals and traded them in for crayons.
Born in Philadelphia, Rogers took advantage of big city culture. He copied his favorite characters out of the Philadelphia Inquirer's comic pages and enrolled in Saturday art classes at the museum. It soon became evident that he had a talent for art, which also limited his career options.
At the age of thirteen, his family threw the mattress on top of the Buick and moved to Oklahoma. His parents figured if they moved to a state without a decent newspaper or museum he might give up his silly hobby. He continued to draw in high school and became an art major in college. His interest in "political" cartooning was cultivated at Oklahoma State University.
Desperate for a city with decent newspapers and museums, Rob returned to Pennsylvania to attend graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. After graduating in 1984 with an MFA in painting, Rob was hired by the Pittsburgh Press . Rogers joined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette when it acquired the Press in January 1993.
A syndicated cartoonist with United Feature Syndicate, Rogers' cartoons appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer , Newsweek, and USA Today, among others. His "How the Gingrich Stole Christmas" graced the cover of Newsweek's 1994 year-end issue. Rogers and his cartoons have also appeared on NBC's "Today," and CBS's "Face the Nation."
National journalistic organizations have recognized Rogers' provocative work. He received the 1995 National Headliner Award, the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award and has won seven Golden Quill Awards. In 1999, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
He currently lives in the city with his dog Mojo where he enjoys museums, newspapers and the occasional bowl of Cheerios.
Rebecca Smith (BFA 1996)
Rebecca Smith received her MFA from Yale in 1998 and won residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Skowhegan, and The Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown where she had a solo exhibit, Be Mine in 1999 at Hudson D. Walker Gallery. That same year, she co-founded Bellwether Gallery with Matt Keegan ('98) in Brooklyn which she now owns and directs. Reviews of Bellwether exhibits have appeared in the New York Times. She has exhibited her own work in group shows at Kravets/Wheby, KRS, Silverstein and Lombard Freid Fine Arts galleries, all in New York City. In September, 2000, she was featured in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article, How to Become an Instant Art Star. In November 2002, she hosted a young New York alumni exhibit, ProFRESH as part of the Carnegie Mellon, College of Fine Arts New York Series.
Paul Vanouse (MFA 1996)
Paul Vanouse received his BFA in painting from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1990 and MFA from Carnegie Mellon. His work addresses questions and concerns about the impact of contemporary culture on aspects of subjectivity.
Vanouse has exhibited his individual and collaborative projects around the world, including Cuba, New Zealand and Ireland. He premiered Terminal Time, which deals with recounting the history of the Millennium as an interactive experience – a pseudo-documentary which responds to the values and biases of each audience – at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 1999. Terminal Time also appeared at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh; the Annual Conference of the Society for Media Religion and Culture at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) fall symposium on Narrative Intelligence, Cape Cod, MA; and in Sonic Circuits, Walker Art Center at the Landmark Theater, Saint Paul, MN. In 1998, Consensual Fantasy Engine II was presented at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN while in 1999, Cult of the New Eve was presented at Intercore, Saint Clara Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Net_Condition, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Vanouse has also exhibited in SIGGRAPH 98: Touchware, Orlando, FL; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands; Ars Interruptus, Navarra's Video Festival, Pamplona, Spain; Beyond Interface, (www exhibit) Museums and the Web Conference, Toronto, Canada; Flaming Creatures, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Consensual Fantasy Engine II, SAGAs Writing Interactive Fiction, Munich Film and Television School, Munich, Germany; Consensual Fantasy Engine II, University of Metz, Metz, France, 1998; International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums 97, The Louvre, Paris; Re-Inventing the Box, Betty Rymer Gallery and International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA97), both at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Copenhagen Film+Video Workshop Festival 96, Subversive & Alive program, Denmark; and International Film Festival Rotterdam, Exploding Cinema program, V2 Organisatie Gallery and NightTown Theater, Netherlands.
He has received five awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and grants from the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Howard Heinz Endowment, and the National Science Foundation. He received a Carnegie Mellon University Minority Student Grant, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society and won a Lord Rumsey Scholarship in 1989.
Since 1996, he has been a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry. He was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at University of California San Diego in 1997 and is on the art faculty at University at Buffalo. Vanouse is a current member of the School of Art Advisory Board.
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