People

Mark T. Duffy

MFA '27

Mark T. Duffy is an artist living in Oakland, Ca. His work expresses an interest in understanding how power structures affect society, and is informed by research in philosophy, post-humanities theory, and critical pedagogy. He uses chance, improvisation, and an unconscious mode of thinking to subvert language and contend with the impossibility of news forms. He has exhibited at SFMOMA Library, 500 Capp Street, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, and Slash, in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. In 2024 he completed a residency at Yaddo in New York. He is currently working on an Art Practice MFA at...

Bhavani Srinivas

MFA '27
Bhavani Srinivas engages poetic double meanings and contradictory symbolisms to construct installations that shift between the registers of personal narrative, pop culture, spirituality, and history. Bhavani holds a BA in Art Practice from Princeton University. They are a worker-owner of March April Studio, a community art and writing studio in Los Angeles, and they co-run Corners cutoff, a small press publishing multi-lingual projects. Website: bhavanisrinivas.com

Jaebin Lee

MFA '27

Jaebin Lee (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from Seoul, Korea. Her practice emerges from her complex relationship with faith, shaped by a devout Catholic upbringing. Working across installation, video, sculpture, performance, and AI imaging, she reimagines religion’s physical and symbolic structures as dynamic and fluid constructs to explore their layered meanings and other possibilities. By leveraging the evocative power of sacred symbols and narratives, she creates subversive imagery that challenges outdated constructs and proposes multidimensional ways of understanding...

Lorain Khalil Rihan

MFA '27

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Ronald Rael

Professor
Architecture

Ronald Rael is a designer, architectural researcher, author, entrepreneur, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (University of California Press 2017), an illustrated biography and protest of the wall dividing the U.S. from Mexico (featured in a TED talk by Rael), and Earth Architecture (Princeton Architectural...

Students

Current Graduate Students

Our two-year Master of Fine Arts program offers individual studios, a broad range of courses, access to fabrication workshops and labs, and close mentorship from Art Practice and campus-wide faculty.

Visiting Scholars

Applications for Visiting Scholars

Art Practice invites artists and creative researchers to apply to be a resident Art Practice Fellow under the University of California’s Visiting Researcher Scholar and Postdoctoral Affairs (VSPA) program.

Prospective candidates should initiate contact with possible faculty hosts at least five months before the date they would wish to start at UC Berkeley. Once candidates have confirmed a faculty sponsor, they must fill in this...

Faculty & Staff

We show up every day to support our students and the practice of art in its many forms. Our faculty conduct research and create art, as well as teach studio, seminar, and lecture courses. Our staff manage the art office, research areas, labs, and work spaces. Together, we celebrate the arts through practice.