Josephine Pryde is an artist, writer, and Professor for Contemporary Art and Photography at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Her solo exhibitions, Lapses in Thinking by the Person I Am, at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2015), and These Are Just Things I Say, They Are Not My Opinions, for Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2014), were recently brought together in a 2018 book co-published by ICA Philadelphia and Sternberg Press. The recipient of the 2016 Turner Prize, Pryde has exhibited in exhibitions including the Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016), and New Photography, MoMA, New York (2013), and her work is held in the collections of MoMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. She is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and the Simon Lee Gallery, London, where she recently opened an exhibit of photography and 3D prints entitled In Case My Mind Is Changing.

Pryde’s writing appears in the journal Texte zur Kunst, where her Men of the Left, a reconsideration of the relationship between leftwing and feminist politics was published in the March 2018 issue.

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ArtCenter’s Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.