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
Will Wilson
Associate Professor of Photography
MFA, University of New Mexico
BA, Oberlin College
Will Wilson’s projects foster the continuation and transformation of customary Indigenous cultural practice. He is a Diné photographer and trans-customary artist. Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and art history at Oberlin College and the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002). He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography, and the Native Arts and Culture Foundation SHIFT fellowship. Wilson has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, University of Arizona and Santa Fe Community College. In 2020, he was Doran Artist in Residence at Yale University Art Gallery, and recently co-curated Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
willwilson.photoshelter.com
william.wilson@austin.utexas.edu
Hayley Austin
Lecturer
MFA, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
BFA, University of Texas at Austin
Hayley Austin is a Texas-born photographer based in Hamburg, Germany.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Plan II Bachelor of Liberal Arts from The University of Texas at Austin. In 2009, she moved to Berlin and later earned a Master of Arts in photography from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. A fascination with people and their relationship to their environment, culture and one another lies at the heart of her work.
Her first monograph, The Springs, was published by Kris Graves Projects in 2020. The series was shortlisted for the Grand Prix at Fotofestiwal Łódź and the PH Museum Women Photographers Grant in 2019; it was selected for the LUMIX Festival of Young Visual Journalism in 2020. Recent editorial clients include Greenpeace magazine, High Country News, The New York Times, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel.
hayleyaustin.com
hayley.austin@austin.utexas.edu
Melissa Nuñez
Lecturer/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.
