Photography Faculty & Department Administrators
At MassArt, we approach photography as an opportunity for conversation-–a way to express our evolving perspectives on a changing world. Through critique, collaboration, creation, and critical thinking, students strive, together with accomplished faculty, to explore the potent and versatile language of photography. Situated in Boston’s thriving artistic community, the MassArt Photography department offers students boundless resources and opportunities for artistic growth, community, and professional development.
As a MassArt student, I was fortunate to be surrounded by faculty who served as exceptional role models of how to effectively balance life as an artist-educator.Robert Knight ’06 MFA Photography
The Photography program brings accomplished speakers to campus each semester, including artists, historians, editors, and curators.
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Photography students have access to a range of analog and digital equipment, labs, and studios in a collaborative work environment.
Learn MoreRyan Arthurs is a visual artist living in Buffalo, New York. He received his M.F.A. in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a B.F.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College. Ryan was a visiting professor at Carleton College, and was a photography teaching assistant at Harvard University. He was a printmaking Artist-In-Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado and The Bothy Project, Isle of Eigg in Scotland.
Growing up queer in Xiamen, China, Chen found roundabout ways to explore his identity.
At an opera, “I was amazed by a performer who is actually biological female,” he said. “She would dress up like a male character and sing boldly and powerfully on stage.”
Then, “I was obsessed with video games . . . because I can change my character to female. I can also change my character to a male,” he said. “I can change my character to a non-human creature. It just gave me a lot of freedom.”
At MassArt, photography has been Chen’s platform to integrate childhood influences and perform his true, evolving self. In his series “The Factory of Desire,” he said, “I’m trying to bring the unseen desire to the stage.”
