Julian Nykolak is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History. He received his PhD from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and his BA from Wesleyan University. His research illuminates the significance of collective artistic formations to rethink theories of the avant-garde and histories of identity, difference, and relationality in twentieth-century art.
Oli Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist working in filmmaking, video, photography, performance and writing. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at California State University, Los Angeles. His projects conceptually intersect within notions of subversive desire, passing, visualizing the performativity of gender, explorations in appropriation, performative interactions with the public as collaborator and a commitment to referencing historical movements in gender, racial and feminist histories.
Zachary Zezima is an animation director based in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work frequently includes elements of psychology, the body, interpersonal relationships, science-fiction, and autobiography.
In progress, Ph.D. Leadership Studies University of San Diego
M.F.A. Studio Arts, California State University, Los Angeles
MA, Art History, focus on Pre-Columbian and Chicana/o/x Art, California State University, Los Angeles
B.A. Studio Arts, California State University, Los Angeles
A.A. Liberal Studies, East Los Angeles College
I joined Cal State LA in 2015 as part of the Geography program faculty. Previously I worked for Wright State University, University of South Florida, Esri, Inc., and the Center for Urban Transportation Research. My areas of teaching focus include urban geography, urban transportation, political geography, geographic thought, and GIS (spatial analysis and mobile GIS); my research focuses on uneven geographical development within the urban space.
Tim Ebner attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, and received a BFA and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982. He has regularly exhibited in Los Angeles galleries since 1982, and has been showing with the Rosamund Felsen Gallery since 1991. He has taught at CalArts, Otis College of Art and Design, Occidental College, Claremont College, UCLA, Art Center College of Art & Design, and is currently a professor at California State University, Los Angeles.
Came to CSULA in 1990, after 8 years in the textile fiber industry working in new product development and marketing, .
Teaches a wide variety of courses in Fashion, Fiber and Materials in the Department of Art.
Interested in issues of textiles and fashion related to personal and societal consumption and sustainability.
Jim Ovelmen is a mixed media artist, painter, and animator. His work often combines painting, sculpture, animation, and musical performance. His work continues to be shown internationally. He has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Barcelona, Taipei, Tokyo, Nagoya, and elsewhere.