Iowa's photography program pushes disciplinary boundaries in every form of photography, from digital to print black-and-white.
Our faculty exhibit work nationally and internationally—including in biennial faculty art exhibitions on the University of Iowa campus—and are in demand as visiting teachers and speakers.
Visiting artists in photography
- 2024
Pao Houa Her
Tommy Kha - 2023
Carmen Winant, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Catherine Zuromskis, Associate Professor, RIT - 2022
Rodrigo Valenzuela, Assistant Professor of Art, UCLA
Ariel Pate, Curator of Photography, Milwaukee Museum of Art
Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths, A Yellow Rose Project
Nelson Chan - 2021
Kelli Connell
Mary Virginia Swanson
Laura Burkhalter, Curator, Des Moines Arts Center - 2020
Kevin Miyazaki
Mark McKnight - 2019
Laura Letinsky
April Watson, Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - 2018
Dana Fritz
- 2015
Ken Josephson
John Reuter - 2014
Brian Ulrich
Public lectures by candidates for Assistant Professor in Digital Photography:
2013Peter Nelson
Jeff Rich
Christine Shank"Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream"
2012Lecture by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
"Interior Identities and Exterior Worlds"
2011Lecture by Christine Shank
- 2010
John F. Simon Jr.
Alexis Pike, "Claimed Landscapes" lecture
Kelli Connell, lecture on award-winning "Double Life" - 2009
Terri Warpinski
Photography faculty
Stephanie Brunia
Rachel Cox
Thalassa Raasch