Image Text Faculty and Visiting Artists

Andres Gonzalez

Visiting Artist 2025

Andres Gonzalez is a visual artist based in Vallejo, California. He has published three books, Some(W)Here (self-published, 2012), American Origami (Fw:Books, 2019), which won the Light Work Photo Book Award and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture Book Awards, and I'll Let You Be In My Dreams If I Can Be In Yours (MACK, 2024), a collaborative work with longtime partner Carolyn Drake.

His work has been profiled in The Guardian, the British Journal of Photography, TIME magazine, and NPR, and has received recognition from the Pulitzer Center and the Alexia Foundation. He is a Fulbright Fellow, and his work has also been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen in Berlin, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, where he collaborated with the Columbia College theater department and members from Tectonic Theater Project on a theatrical adaption of American Origami. 

Terence Nance

Visiting Artist 2025

Terence Etc. (also known as Terence Nance) is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Nance's work exists on the thresholds between artistic forms, yielding an extensive multidisciplinary practice.

In 2020, Nance released his first EP, Things I Never Had, followed in 2022 by his first album, V O R T E X (released via Brainfeeder). The music is transcendent, ornate, and playful, and tells interdimensional love stories from the early 21st century.

In the world of cinema, Nance has directed music videos for André 3000, Solange, and Earl Sweatshirt. He also wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. He created two seasons of his Peabody Award-winning HBO series Random Acts of Flyness in 2018 and 2022; The New Yorker described the second season as "a work of music-like Afrofuturism, the closest thing I've seen to a cinematic reflection of the tones and moods of the music of Sun Ra, complete with the mythopoetic dimension."

Most recently, Nance completed his first feature-length score for Tayarisha Poe's The Young Wife. He also directed the visual component to André 3000's Grammy-nominated album New Blue Sun, a 90-minute film that complements the album's themes titled Listening to the Sun, and opened his first solo exhibition titled SWARM at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The exhibition was accompanied by a live performance of V O R T E X, which was released in January 2025. Nance is now working on his next album and a yet-to-be-titled feature film.