Teresa Hubbard
William and Bettye Nowlin Professor in Photography
Area Head, Photography & Media
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 have been collaborating as an artist team since 1990. Their lens-based practice aims to inspire sensorial interactions and explore connections between social life, history and memory. Hubbard / Birchler often seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist, archeologist or historian. They represented Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial. Hubbard / Birchler’s video installation, Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come, (2024) commissioned by Waterloo Greenway, is currently on view nightly at the Moody Amphitheater, Austin, through 2029.
Hubbard / Birchler have presented their work in many of the most prominent art institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA; National Portrait Gallery, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin; Kunstmuseum Basel; Reina Sofia Museum Madrid; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the 48th + 57th Venice Biennials.
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teresahubbard@utexas.edu
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Eli Durst
Associate Professor of Practice
Department Assistant Chair for Studio Art
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.
Will Wilson
Associate Professor
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.
Melissa Nuñez
Photography & Media Lab Manager
Lecturer
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 created 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.