Sanjit Sethi

Sanjit Sethi is the president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[1]

Sanjit Sethi
OccupationArtist
President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Academic background
Alma materAlfred University
University of Georgia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Early life and education

Sethi obtained a BFA in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1994 and an MFA in the same field from Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 1998. In 2002, he graduated with an MSc in Advanced Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2][3]

Career

From 2004 to 2008, Sethi served at the Memphis College of Art, where he was director of the MFA program.

Subsequently, he served as Barclay Simpson chair and assistant professor of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts, where he subsequently also served as Director of the Center for Art and Public Life.[4][5][6]

In 2013, Sethi was appointed as the executive director of the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) and served in this position until 2015.[2][7][8]

In 2015, Sethi then became the first Director of the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University, after the school had been integrated into GWU's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in 2014.[9][10]

In 2018, only one month after Cartoonist Rob Rogers had been fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for cartoons that were critical of President Trump, which caused national criticism and news coverage, Sethi organized an exhibition at Corcoran, titled Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers which featured the 18 cartoons.[11][12][13]

In 2019, Sethi was named the new president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Works

Besides his academic profession, Sethi also works as an artist and has worked on different projects and exhibitions around the world.[2][14][15]

Awards and recognitions

Sethi has been awarded different grants and fellowships, including an Enrichment Travel Fellowship to work on his project "Gypsy Bridge Project" in London, Budapest and Dublin.[15]

References
  1. "About Sanjit Sethi". mcad.edu. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  2. "SFAI Names Sanjit Sethi as Executive Director | Santa Fe Art Institute". Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  3. "User Types Alumni". bit.ly. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  4. "California College of Arts: Sanjit Sethi and Ann Wettrich Appointed Codirectors of the CCA Center for Art and Public Life".
  5. "California College of Arts, National Association of Schools of Art and Design: SELF-STUDY in Custom Format" (PDF).
  6. "75 Reasons to Live: Sanjit Sethi on Augustus William Ericson's Slab of Redwood for a London Dining Table Designed to Seat Forty Guests—Diameter 15 Feet". SFMOMA. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  7. "Alfred University Magazine (2013)" (PDF). aura.alfred.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  8. "Santa Fe Art Institute – Press release" (PDF). sfai.org. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  9. "Washington Post: University names first director of Corcoran School of the Arts and Design".
  10. "Corcoran head focuses on fostering community, setting strategic plan". The GW Hatchet. November 19, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  11. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's spiked anti-Trump cartoons will get a D.C. museum exhibit". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  12. Fang, Marina (July 18, 2018). "Spiked Editorial Cartoons That Led To Rob Rogers' Firing Get A Public Exhibit". HuffPost. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  13. "Washington Post: 'This exhibition should have never happened': The anti-Trump cartoons that got an artist fired go on display".
  14. "Go Tell It on the Mountain". CHARLIE JAMES GALLERY. December 10, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  15. "Awards & Exhibitions". Sanjit Sethi. September 13, 2012. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
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