Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

The Yale School of Art celebrates its graduating class of 2026 with a commencement address by artist Anna Tsouhlarakis.

Faculty Marshal: Sandra Burns, Senior Critic, Sculpture

Student Marshal: Christopher Cole, Graphic Design MFA

Banner Bearer: Chen Xiangyun, Photography MFA

Class Speaker: Faye Wei Wei, Painting/Printmaking MFA

Graphic Design

Izza Alyssa

Gabriella N. Baez

Denzel Boyd

Rebecca Cheng

Christopher Cole

Ellen Fabini

Amy Fang

Camille J. Gwise

Hana Jelovšek

David Wonsik Jung

Hasti Kasraei

Heejae Kim

Cierra Peters

Michael Stevens

Priscilla Young

Xiwen Zhang

Hongting Zhu

Painting/Printmaking

Aru Apaza

Amy Chasse

Yuna Cho

Ian Faden

Mar Figueroa

Kimberly Heard

Inkpa Mani

Ambrose Murray

Hazal Özgür

Vernando Reuben

Kiki Serna

Sok Song

Leyla Tonak

Yuwei Tu

Alixe Turner

Faye Wei Wei

Wenqing Zhai

Photography

Christian Badach

Chen Xiangyun

Jasmine Clarke

Faith Couch

Atefe Moeini

Christopher Postlewaite

Olivia Reavey

John Shen

Em Wall

Andrew Warner

Sculpture

Taisha Carrington

Cameron Patricia Downey

Amanda Atria

Joy Li

Nabla Mohammad Yahya

Josh Rabineau

Rachel Rosheger

Bendy Sohn

Amy Wang

Shellie Zhang

The 2026 School of Art Commencement began with Yale’s University-wide commencement exercises on Old Campus in New Haven on Monday, May 18. This event was followed by the Yale School of Art Diploma Ceremony and Reception at the Yale University Art Gallery.

With their families and friends in attendance, graduates heard addresses from Yale School of Art Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Kymberly Pinder and invited commencement speaker Anna Tsouhlarakis.

Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; the National Portrait Gallery; the Ford Foundation Gallery; and a solo exhibition at MCA Denver. She is currently part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial in New York. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, MacDowell, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant in 2021, received a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, was a 2025 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and in the summer of 2025, she returned to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as Resident Faculty. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the recipient of this year’s Reparative Faculty Fellowship to Address Settler Colonialism. This spring semester she is the Artist-in-Residence at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Tsouhlarakis is of Greek descent and an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation.