School of Visual Arts (SVA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Suzanne Anker as chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department, effective immediately. Anker has served as chair of the Art History Department since 2000. She will assume the role of chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department from Jeanne Siegel, who has held the position for 29 years and who will continue to be associated with the College as chair emeritus.

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theoretician working with genetic imagery. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, The Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She has recently lectured at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, The Royal Society in London and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. She has also given talks at the Institute for the Humanities and Medicine, the Department of the History of Science and the School of Art and Architecture, all at Yale University.

Anker's studio practice incorporates both traditional mediums and new technologies, ranging from drawing and silkscreen printing to computer-assisted three-dimensional modeling and installation. She is a leading voice in a growing group of artists in the field of sci-art, an emerging movement that blurs the boundaries between art and science.

Anker has been a guest curator at the New York Academy of Sciences several times. Her exhibitions there highlight, through visual art, controversial questions with regard to biotechnology and its applications. Reproductive technologies, the commodification of living material and regenerative medicine have been themes in her curatorial practice. She is currently host of The Bio-Blurb Show, an Internet radio program sponsored by WPS1 (www.wps1.org) and the Museum of Modern Art.

Her writings have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Art Journal, Nature Reviews Genetics and Seed magazine. She is the co-author, with the late Dorothy Nelkin, of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2004). This richly illustrated text intersects visual art, art history and the genetic sciences.

In her tenure as chair of SVA's Art History Department, Anker has played a contributing role in establishing the Honors program, an interdisciplinary educational forum for exceptional students. She has also been a faculty member at SVA since 1993, teaching Modern Art Through Pop and Ideas in Art on the undergraduate level, and has been part of the MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media's graduate faculty. Prior to coming to SVA, Anker taught at New York University, The Cooper Union and Washington University in St. Louis. She received her BA in art at Brooklyn College and her MFA at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

School of Visual Arts (SVA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Tom Huhn as chair of the Art History Department, effective immediately. He will assume the role of chair from Suzanne Anker, who has just been appointed as chair of SVA's BFA Fine Arts Department.

Huhn, a writer and philosopher, received a PhD in philosophy from Boston University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Germany, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and a recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His book publications include: Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth and Kant (Penn State Press, 2004); The Cambridge Companion to Adorno (Cambridge University Press, 2004); The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press, 1997); and The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy and the Ends of Taste (Gordon & Breach, 1998). Huhn's essays have appeared in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Art & Text, Art Criticism, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Constellations, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Oxford Art Journal, New German Critique and Telos.

Huhn has had teaching appointments at Wesleyan University, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University and Wabash College. He has also taught in SVA's undergraduate honors program. His current research is focused on the history of aesthetic pleasure.

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