Luca Buvoli (born in Italy, lives in New York), Director of the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA, is an artist working with animated film and video, installation, sculpture, painting and drawing.

Luca Buvoli's museum solo shows include the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2001), the M.I.T. List Center, Cambridge (2000), ICA in Philadelphia (2007), and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC (2003), and gallery solo shows the John Weber Gallery (1995, 1997, 1999) and Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2012). Group shows include the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1997), and Greater New York at P.S. 1 (2000). An expanded multi-media installation was shown at the entrance of the Arsenale in the 2007 Venice Biennale, and a large outdoor project was installed at the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin, in conjunction with the exhibition Utopia Matters in 2010. In the same year, a large permanent sculpture, Vector HH, was commissioned and installed in the Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. In 2012, Buvoli was commissioned to design a large-scale public artwork in Seattle, Washington, to be completed in 2021.

His animated films and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Lincoln Center in New York, the ICA in Boston, and the British Library and the ICA in London among other places. Articles on his works have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, Modern Painters, Art on Paper, Frieze, The New Yorker, Flash Art, and others. Clips of his animated video Velocitá Zero have been aired as public service announcements on Italian national television channels (and online) since 2008, with a message from the Italian Aphasic Association promoting awareness of the condition.

A Fulbright Fellow, he has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts. He has given lectures on his work at Harvard, Yale, Brown University, Columbia, M.I.T., Skowhegan, and many other international institutions and museums. Since 2013 he has been the Director of the Mount Royal School of Art, a multi-disciplinary graduate program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Luca Buvoli is a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. His artworks are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, and many other international museums, foundations, and institutions.

Michael Weiss, Interim Director

Michael Weiss is an artist who uses traditional painting and stained glass materials and methods to create contemporary images containing oblique but not opaque content. He has exhibited widely throughout the region and his work is a part of numerous private and corporate collections across the globe. He has received grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund and the Maryland State Arts Council.

Weiss has been a member of MICA’s full-time faculty teaching in the Drawing, General Fine Arts, Painting, and FYE departments since 2003. Working with students across multiple disciplines and having graduated from the Mount Royal School of Art, he is well aware that pathways of inquiry are quite varied and revels in walking them together.

During his time at MICA, he has also undertaken a variety of administrative roles, most recently serving as Associate Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. As an academic leader, he has worked closely with programs to ensure that they serve students with changing needs and interests by developing and refining curricula, introducing and adapting technologies, and ensuring that students can find approaches that support dynamic practices.

Stephanie Barber

Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Many of her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential qualities of language. They ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected oars of play, emotionalism, story, and humor. Many balance several seemingly unrelated concepts––subtly suggesting or brazenly demanding a focused and imaginative reception. Many create gently complex, emotional studies. Others are funny; a sorrowful sort of funny. There are videos of obsessive observing and ambient sounds; small artificial fireworks, animals, and silence. They are tightly wound, dense, and light simultaneously.

Barber's films and videos have has been screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY, The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums and festivals. Her essays, stories and poems have been published in books, magazines and online journals.

Siobhan Liddell

Siobhan Liddell (born in England, lives in New York) is a painter and sculptor whose work has been exhibited in shows including the Whitney Biennial, New York, and the Yokohama Triennial, Japan, and in institutions such as the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX, and others in America, Europe and Japan.   

Fabian Marcaccio

Fabian Marcaccio (1963, Rosario, Argentina, lives in New York) has exhibited internationally his environmental paintings, animations, and "Paintants," that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural form, and three dimensionally painted surfaces. 

Lucio Pozzi

Lucio Pozzi (1935, Milan, Italy, lives in Hudson, NY, and Valeggio s/M, VR, Italy) is a pioneer in working across different media and approaches, often coexisting in the same show. 

Claude Wampler

Working at the intersection of art installation and performance, Claude Wampler (Born 1966 in Pennsylvania, lives in New York City and Charlottesville, VA) engages and experiments with liveness and the art object, concealment and revelation, the performance of the spectator, and the productivity of failure.

Rene Trevino

René Treviño is a gay Mexican-American artist born in Kingsville, Texas. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2003 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005.

Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a will to heal, and an insistence upon freedom.

Baseera Khan

Baseera Khan is a New York-based visual artist working across public art, sculpture, painting, performance, and music. Their practice traces how material and color carry economies of labor, family, religion, and spiritual well-being, moving fluidly between disciplines to do so.