Past Kennedy Family Artists and Scholars in Residence
Jessica Segall (2017, Fall)
Jessica Segall is a multidisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. Her work is exhibited internationally, including at the Havana Bienal, The National Gallery of Indonesia, The Queens Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum, The Inside Out Museum, Art In General, The International Symposium on Electronic Art and The National Modern Art Gallery of Mongolia.
She received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, Art Matters, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Leighton International Artist Exchange Program, an Arts / Science Initiative from Chicago University and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Jessica attended residencies at Skowhegan, The MacDowell Colony, Art OMI, Bemis, SOMA, The Van Eyck Academie and The Sharpe Walentas Space Program.
Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, Mousse Magazine and Sculpture Magazine, and her writing has appeared in Cabinet Magazine. Jessica is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and The the 91社区. She is a graduate of Bard College and received her MFA in 2010 from Columbia University.
I帽igo Cabo (2016, Fall)
Artist, theorist and independent curator, I帽igo Cabo has exhibited in international
Art Museums, Art Centres and Galleries in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland,
Denmark, Czech, Ecuador and the U.S.
He has participated in the XV Biennale de Paris, the IX Bienal of Young Artists of
Europe and Mediterranean; among other events. Cabo has published critical works as
Nueva Objetividad (ESPAIS Foundation Critic Prize 2001) and organized large situational
open projects, in order to generate cross-disciplinary platforms of collective and
free production. He has received the support from institutions like Basque Government,
Foundation La Caixa (Barcelona) and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst-DAAD (Berlin).
Anthony G. Tasset (2015, Fall)
Tony Tasset has worked in a variety of styles and mediums including sculpture, photography,
video and film. In the last few years, he has created several large-scale permanent
outdoor sculptures. His work deals with universal themes and emotions through common
pictorial languages. To this end, he employs familiarity, humor, craft, sentiment,
confession and shock. He makes iconic images about the current cultural moment from
an individual perspective. Tasset received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and his BFA from The Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Tasset is currently a University Scholar at The University of Illinois at Chicago;
was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; and received The Louis Comfort Tiffany
Award. Tasset鈥檚 most recent exhibitions include 鈥淎ll Things Must Pass,鈥� at The Laumeier
Art Museum and Sculpture Park, St Louis; 鈥淪ympathy for the Devil, Art and Rock and
Roll since 1967,鈥� at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and 鈥淚nto Me/ Out of
Me,鈥� at MACRO, Rome. His work has been reviewed in The L Magazine and in Artforum.
Rashawn Griffin (2015, Spring)
Rashawn Griffin was born in Los Angeles and is now based out of New York City. He;
received his undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his
MFA from Yale University. The artist鈥檚 eclectic artworks have been exhibited in more
than 40 venues in the past eight years. These include the Whitney Biennial in 2008,
as well as solo shows at Gasser and Grunert Gallery in New York and multiple solo
and group exhibitions in Germany. Other group exhibitions include the Studio Museum
in Harlem, Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, and the Queens Museum of Art also
in New York 鈥� plus galleries in Miami and Detroit. There have been international exhibitions
in Switzerland, France, Denmark and China.
The exhibitions and works have been critically reviewed or otherwise written about
in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Frieze art journal, Art Review,
Art in America and Saatchi Gallery online. His artwork has been acquired for the permanent
collection by the Saatchi Gallery in London. In 2007, Rashawn Griffin was the recipient
of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture and was
a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2006.
During his Kennedy Residency at USF, the artist taught an undergraduate studio course
and worked with our Master of Fine Arts students. In April, as his Community Project,
our guest spent the day with the students of H. W. Blake High School of the Arts in
downtown Tampa.
Alix Lambert (2013, Fall)
Alix Lambert is a graduate of the School of the Visual Arts in New York and attended
the Royal College of Art in London. Our USF Kennedy Artist in Residence directed and
produced the award-winning film, "The Mark of Cain." She also directed and produced
(with David McMahon) the feature documentary "Bayou Blue," 鈥� a film that chronicles
the arrest, trial and conviction of a serial killer near New Orleans between 1997
and 2006.
Alix Lambert television credits include a Writer鈥檚 Guild of America nomination for
HBO鈥檚 鈥淒eadwood,鈥� and she was a writer and associate producer for HBO鈥檚, 鈥淛ohn from
Cincinnati.鈥� In addition to producing numerous short films and videos, the artist
has written for Artforum, LA Weekly and Filmmaker magazine. She is the author of four
books 鈥� as well as for the video game, 鈥淪yndicate.鈥� For theatre, in addition to being
the co-founder of 鈥淭he Brooklyn International Theatre Company,鈥� she has written and
directed works in New York, Hartford and Australia.
Lambert鈥檚 artworks have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the
Venice Biennale, and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, to name a few. She has
received fellowships or residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment
for the Arts and the New York Foundation for The Arts. She is represented by the Anna
Kustera Gallery in New York.
In addition to working with USF students in the classroom and studio 鈥� Lambert linked
up the class with research into the world of crime in Tampa 鈥� often riding in a sheriff鈥檚
patrol car and accompanying deputies into homes through the dark nights.
Kate Bussard (2013, Spring)
Kate Bussard is a Professor of the History of Photography at Princeton University
and author of the exhibition catalogue, 鈥淪o the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney,
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan.鈥� While Aassociate
Curator of Photography at The Art Institute of Chicago (2004-2013), Dr. Bussard curated
a biennial series for the Art Institute on emerging photographers. Prior to joining
the Art Institute, she worked for the J. Paul Getty Museum and Clark Art Institute.
Bussard completed her doctoral dissertation on street photography at the City University
of New York, and contributed a related essay to the exhibition catalogue Street Art,
Street Life: From the 1950s to Now. She is co-curating a traveling exhibition on the
history of American color photography.
Photographing the City: A history and an exhibition
The course examined the history of urban photography since the mid-1800s, with an
emphasis on American images. A basic premise of this course was that such photographs
captured cities as ideas, as geographic entities, in ways that document and perhaps
even alter American cities in transition. Urban photographs have been integral to
shaping the image of cities. This has been true for Gold Rush boom towns as much as
for postwar urban flight to the suburbs. By the latter half of the Twentieth 20th
century, not only the futures but also the pasts of cities increasingly gained critical
and photographic attention with the founding of historic preservation organizations
in many metropolitan areas. Jane Jacobs鈥� 鈥淭he Death and Life of Great American Cities鈥�
(1961) was a pivotal text for this period up to the present.
Knowledge gained in seminar furthered by special sessions held at the St. Petersburg
Museum of Fine Art, where the course was a practicum in curatorial studies. Research
and assignments were centered on historic urban photographs in their collection鈥攎any
dating to before World War I鈥攁nd was culminated in an exhibition that illuminated,
the social, political, and economic concerns of urban photography.
Sussan Babaie (2011, Spring)
The Kennedy Scholar in Residence, Spring 2011, Dr. Babaie received her PhD from New
York University in 1994. She was a Fulbright Regional Scholar in Egypt (American University
in Cairo and Cairo University) and Syria (Ministry of Culture) in 2010.
Babaie鈥檚 awards have included a Fellowship from the Getty Research Institute (Los
Angeles,) Soudavar Foundation (New York, London, Geneva,) and several grants from
the University of Michigan, where she served on the faculty from 2001-2008. She was
the guest organizer for a major exhibition of artworks at the Sackler Museum at Harvard
University held this year: 2010in 2010.
Dr. Babaie鈥檚 publications have been through the University of Edinburgh Press (Scotland),
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York,) and the British Museum (London).
Sussan Babaie developed an ambitious graduate- level seminar while at USF, including
a week-long visit by all students to the Persian collections at the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, DC.
On several occasions, Dr. Babaie met with the members of the Tampa Bay Persian-American
Society and lectured to the organization.
Siebren Versteeg (2009, Fall)
In Fall semester 2009, USF鈥檚 first Tom and Patricia Kennedy Artist in Residence was the internationally known Siebren Versteeg.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, now living in New York City, Versteeg received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Exhibitions and projects have been in New York (multiple), Chicago (multiple), Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Miami, Washington DC, Baltimore, Boston, Italy, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria, China and Canada.
Reviews and articles about exhibitions and projects have been published in Art in
America, ArtForum, New Art Examiner, Chicago Tribune and New York Magazine. Artworks
are in the collections of, among others, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum,
and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
Versteeg taught a course focusing on the use of the internet as a creative input-output
tool. His dynamic project with Community Stepping Stones resulted in digital information
kiosks in Sulphur Springs, one of Tampa鈥檚 most underserved communities.