Photography Faculty

  • Photo Lab Tech, Adjunct Faculty, Photography, School of Art, CVPA

    Jorge Bañales is the Photo Lab Tech at George Mason University's School of Art, within the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
  • Stephanie Benassi

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Stephanie Benassi is a conceptual artist working primarily with photography. She uses photographic images and processes to conceptually engage the contradictions, limitations, and material conditions inherent to the photographic medium.
  • Kelly Carr

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Artist, professor, and commercial photographer. I have taught in the D.C. and Virginia area for over 20 years. As an artist, among others, I have shown at the National Museum of American History, IA & A at Hillyer and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
  • J. Carrier

    Assistant Professor, Photography, School of Art, CVPA

    J Carrier (b. Biloxi, Mississippi) spent a decade living and working in Africa and the middle east, and after a five-year stint in Brooklyn, returned home to Washington D.C. where he lives with his family. J. has a BS in Wildlife & Fisheries Science and Forestry from the Pennsylvania State University (1996) and an MFA from the Hartford Art School (2012).
  • Matthew Conboy

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Matthew Conboy has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts from Ohio University, an MFA in Design and Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BS in Architecture from the Catholic University of America.
  • Harry Griffin

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Harry Griffin was born and raised in South Florida. He stumbled into photography in community college after taking a class while a graphic design major. He quickly fell in love with the medium and transferred to California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA.
  • Xang Ho

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Xang Mimi Ho is a fashion photographer in the Virginia area as well as an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Ho received her Bachelor of Fine Art from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia...
  • Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    MFA Photography, 2014 (alumna)

    Rahshia Sawyer is a conceptual photographer based in the Washington DC area. She was the 2012 recipient of the Contemporary Talents award from France’s François Schneider Foundation. Exhibited in the 2012 Inaugural Dublin Biennial...
  • Mary Neuberger

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Drawing on indigenous and self-created rituals, MJ Neuberger’s photographs, installations, sculptural work and social practice explore reconnection with bodies abandoned in intergenerational trauma and colonialism.
  • Clifford Pun

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Clifford Pun is an artist, photographer, and designer. His body of work is about his “Asianicity,” a drag masquerade of staged, self-portraits that explore ideas of persona, identity, sexuality, gender, and race.