Teresa Hubbard
William and Bettye Nowlin Professor in Photography
MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
BFA, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Birchler
Professor of Practice
Fellow, John D. Murchinson Professorship in Art
MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
BFA, Academy of Art and Design, Basel
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler are the Co-Area Heads of Photography & Media. They have been working collaboratively since 1992. Their lens-based practice interweaves hybrid forms of storytelling using reconstruction, reenactment and documentary. In 2017 Hubbard / Birchler were awarded honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in recognition of their contributions to art and culture.
Their work is widely exhibited and includes venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Museum Liverpool; Mori Museum Tokyo; Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Hubbard / Birchler represented Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Their work is held in numerous public collections including LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C.; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; National Museum of Art Osaka and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
hubbardbirchler.net
teresahubbard@utexas.edu
alexanderbirchler@utexas.edu
Eli Durst
Assistant Professor of Practice
MFA, Yale University School of Art
BFA, Wesleyan University
Born and raised in Austin, Durst studied American literature and history at Wesleyan University before receiving his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2016. His work blends the languages of conceptual and documentary photography, creating open-ended and ambiguous narratives. Durst received the Aperture Portfolio Prize for his series In Asmara, which examines the postcolonial legacy of Eritrea’s capital city, and a 2017 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant. The Community, Durst’s first monograph, was published in 2020. His editorial work can be seen in various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, The Atlantic, and Texas Monthly.
elidurst.com
eli.durst@utexas.edu
Helen Jones
Lecturer
MFA, University of Texas at Austin
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art
Helen Jones is a photographer who explores interactions between people and places, examining everyday sediments: things built up unintentionally and imprints left behind. Since 2011, she has run Incandescent, a bi-annual publication showcasing emerging photographers working with color analog film. Her work has been featured online on sites such as Lenscratch, Nowhere Diary, F-stop, and Float Magazine; and in print in Subjectively, Objective’s Monthly Monograph Magazine. She has exhibited in group shows at UnSmoke Art Systems (Braddock, Pennsylvania), the Visual Art Center (Austin, Texas), the Vermont Center for Photography (Brattleboro, Vermont), and the Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon).
helenjonesphotography.com
Helenjones@utexas.edu
Melissa Nuñez
Photography & Media Lab Manager
MFA, University of Florida
BFA, New World School of the Arts
Nuñez’s work focuses on how American industries have altered landscapes, degraded environments, and creating ruins. Nuñez photographs American industrial ruins and uses hazardous waste found in these spaces to create a new structure arising from these degraded environments. Recent exhibitions include Alternative Processes at Soho Photo Gallery, New York; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL, and Air Gallery, Manchester, England.
