Outstanding Alumni

Creativity is Serious Business (interviews with 21 successful alumni)

Otis' alumni include professional artists and designers who have made outstanding contributions to the creative culture for more than nine decades. They demonstrate the spirit of experimentation that Otis has imbued in its students. In today's innovation-driven economy, in which careers are flexible, adaptable paths into the unknown rather than strictly mapped routes, Otis alumni grasp the big picture, find inventive solutions to complex problems, and express their own voices through various media. Some work in disciplines related to their area of study, expanding the boundaries of their creative practice; others leap imaginatively across vocational borders. From museum and exhibition design to the Hollywood screen, from the clothes we wear to the toys with which our children play, alumni shape the world. Otis graduates span the globe, pursuing unprecedented opportunities in our increasingly multicultural society.

We Went to Otis (video interviews)




1920s Harwell Hamilton Harris John Hench Wilfred Jackson Paul Landacre Tom McKimson Benji Okubo George Maitland Stanley Milford Zornes	1930s Hideo Date Dorothy Jeakins Tyrus Wong	1940s John Altoon George Chann Joseph Mugnaini




1950s Billy Al Bengston Robert Irwin William Major John Mason Ken Price Paul Soldner Tom Van Sant Dean Tavoularis	1960s Bas Jan Ader Barry Le Va Richard Pettibone Masami Teraoka Norman Zammitt	1970s Carlos Almaraz Suzanne Caporael Alonzo Davis Roberto Gil de Montes Judithe Hernandez Bryan Hunt Kerry James Marshall Coleen Sterritt Kent Twitchell Bruce Yonemoto




1980s Sandow Birk Tim Biskup Eleana Del Rio Kristopher Enuke Diane Gamboa Lawrence Gipe Steven Learner David Le Vey Eduardo Lucero Amy McFarland Rick Owens Sarah Perry Steve Roden Jim Rygiel Alison Saar Patssi Valdez Jeffrey Vallance Mark Dean Veca Darren Waterston Wanda Weller	1990s Juan Capistran Gajin Fujita Camille Rose Garcia Chevon Hicks Sandeep Mukherjee Ruben Ochoa Ellen Hee-Jung Jin Over Marco Rios Eduardo Sarabia Hideko Takahashi Derek Thompson Khoi Vinh Scott Williams Mario Ybarra Jr. Raymond Zibach	2000s Robert Dobbie Blaine Fontana Ben and Dennis Go Meleina Mayhew Kris Paulson David Orkand Danny Phillips/Kim Karlsrud Timothy Tompkins