May 19, 2025
New Haven
United States
The Yale School of Art celebrates its graduating class of 2025 with a commencement address by theorist and artist Eva Hayward.
The 2025 candidates for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts:
Graphic Design: Fatima Al-Kuwari, Aylin Alakbarli, Jaamal Benjamin, Chuye Chen (JUICE), Dydanni Jiaqian Dai, Shiyun Deng, Theo France-Haggins, Saskia Seraphima Globig, Tomáš Hlava, Kate Johnson, Jeewon Kim, Wendy Li, Youngjin Park, Yixiao (Yi) Song, Tom Tang, Allison Yoon, Chaewon You, Coco Shiya Yuan.
Painting/Printmaking: Ana Cláudia Almeida, Bix Archer, Rosa Bozhkov, Claire (Won Jeong) Chey, Taína Cruz, Anietié Ekanem, Lauren Flaaen, Flores, Erol Scott Harris, Diego León, Rayer Ma, Rose McBurney, Paulina Moncada, Z.T. Nguyen, Hafsa Nouman, Haejin Park, Purvai Rai, Jam Yoo, Nadia Younes.
Photography: Vani Bhushan, David Billet, Bella Convertino, Olivia Crumm, Christopher Desanges, Luis Díaz, Jeremy Grier, Leor Miller, Aliaksandra Tucha, Yumeng Zhu.
Sculpture: Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Brenda Barrios, Helen Liene Dreifelds, Sam Frésquez, Alice Gong Xiaowen, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Andrew Luk, Gozié Ojini, Alix Vernet, Omer Wasim.
The 2025 School of Art Commencement begins with Yale’s University-wide commencement exercises on Old Campus in New Haven on Monday, May 19. This event will be followed by the Yale School of Art Diploma Ceremony and Reception in the Sculpture Garden at the Yale University Art Gallery.
With their families and friends in attendance, graduates will hear addresses from Yale School of Art Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Kymberly Pinder and invited commencement speaker Eva Hayward.
About commencement speaker Eva Hayward
Commencement speaker Eva Hayward is a theorist and artist who currently teaches at the University of New Mexico. Trained in the History of Consciousness tradition (UCSC, 2008), her scholarship focuses on science studies and visual culture with an emphasis on psychoanalytic semiotics. Hayward is a Fulbright Scholar (University of Graz, Austria) with postdoctoral fellowships at Duke University and Uppsala University (Sweden). She has taught at the University of California, University of Cincinnati, University of Arizona, and Utrecht University (Netherlands). While also publishing in feminist science studies (such as the journals Cultural Anthropology, differences, Parallax, and Angelaki), Hayward’s most recent art writings on “trans as sexuality” have been published in e-Flux, Porn Studies, Texte Zur Kunst, as well as in museum catalogues, including the Whitney Museum (NY), the Institute for Contemporary Art (LA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), and the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein (Vienna, AT). Hayward is currently finishing a book titled She Want that offers a theory of trans want, particularly the wanting of womanhood.
About Yale School of Art
The Yale School of Art provides students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. A full-time faculty of working artists in conjunction with a diverse cross-section of accomplished visiting artists collaborate to design a program and foster an environment where the unique talents and perspectives of individual students can emerge and flourish.
The school currently offers graduate degrees, and undergraduate-level art courses to Yale College students, in the areas of graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.
