Please note that this open letter, which received 777 signatures as of February 11, 2023 at 4 pm EST, is no longer being updated. On February 6, 2023, The Cooper Union announced their decision to reopen Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930 later this spring. The exact date is yet to be announced. You can find the announcement here.

Recent news coverage and statements may be found here: 

 The New York Times, February 7

 ARTNews, February 7

 Curbed, February 6

 The Art Newspaper, February 6

 Artforum, February 6

 PEN America, February 2

 ARTNews, January 30

January 30, 2023

To Laura Sparks (President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) and Hayley Eber (Acting Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture):

We write to express our deep concern and disappointment about the Cooper Union’s last-minute decision to postpone indefinitely the opening of the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930, which was slated for January 25. In a statement, Hayley Eber, Acting Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, wrote that the decision to cancel the show on its opening day grew out of a concern over the appropriateness of the exhibition in the context of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine. We stand in full solidarity with the people of Ukraine and all those who oppose Russia’s unjustified and brutal invasion. To conflate the work of an architectural school based in Moscow a century ago (and shut down after just one decade in a wave of cultural and political suppression) with the actions of the Russian regime today, however, represents both a profound misunderstanding of the history of Vkhutemas and a troubling instance of censorship and historical erasure. 

Vkhutemas, a Soviet art and architecture school established in 1920, was a ground-breaking experiment in art education. Based in Moscow, the capital of the newly established USSR, it sought – as The Cooper Union’s own statement rightly noted – to democratize art pedagogy, with students from all over the Soviet Union attending for free. Its mission of making cutting-edge arts education accessible to all was akin to that of The Cooper Union itself. This is also the spirit of the school that is channeled in the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-garde, 1920-1930, which also features models, drawings, and animations made by the Cooper Union students. Vkhutemas was also a multi-ethnic and multinational space, with its members and affiliates coming from all over the Soviet Union, and beyond. Among its many Ukrainian-born faculty and students were Natan Altman, Iosif Chaikov, Olga Deineko, Daniil Fridman, Kazimir Malevich, Anatol Petrytsky, Isaak Rabinovich, David Shterenberg, Aleksandr Shevchenko, Nikolai Sokolov, and Lydia Zholtkevich, to name just a few. Many of these figures are also prominently featured in Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 (Park Books, 2020), the landmark publication by Anna Bokov, Adjunct Assistant Professor at your institution and the exhibition’s co-curator with Steven Hillyer, Director of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive at The Cooper Union.

We understand that this exhibition was postponed last year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we respect the decision to do so, taken in consultation with the exhibition’s curators. This latest, eleventh-hour postponement is concerning in a different way, as it appears to have been in part fueled by an intellectually questionable article that appeared online last week, written by New York University professor Peder Anker, who is not an expert on Soviet or Ukrainian art and architecture. In his piece, Anker writes that “the Cooper Union should terminate this exhibition and put a pause on its courses on Soviet and Russian architecture.” Such a move would constitute a chilling impingement on academic freedom and education. We urge The Cooper Union to immediately engage in an open and responsible process, including conversations with the community as well as experts in the field, and to establish a timely date for the launch of Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930. This exhibition, which showcases work by former and current Cooper Union students, is an important reminder of the cultural experiments of the interwar years and their lasting legacies that stand in opposition to authoritarianism—both then and now.

Leslie-Fairuz Abad-Neagu, student, Cooper Union

Iyad Abdi, MSc student, Politecnico di Milano

John T Adams MFA

L. Agutu, Yale School of Architecture '22

Sigrid Adorf, Professor for Cultural Analysis in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts

Alena Agafonova, PhD candidate, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Karim Ahmed, Arch '13

Rahel Aima, independent critic

Ania Aizman, Assistant Professor of Slavic, University of Chicago

Suzanne Akbari, Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 

Esra Akcan, Professor, School of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University

Marina Akopyan, student at the Cooper Union

Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Ammon Allred, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toledo

Tim Altenhof, University Assistant, University of Innsbruck, International Fellow KWI Essen

Arie Amaya-Akkermans, art critic, independent curator

Anthony Anemone, Emeritus Professor, The New School

Jenny Anger, Professor of Art History, Grinnell College

Bill Anthes, Professor, Art Field Group, Pitzer College

Kevin Appel, Professor and Chair, Art Department, UC Irvine

Susan K. Appel, PhD, Professor Emerita, School of Art, Illinois State University

Emily Apter, Chair, Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture, NYU

Mollie Arbuthnot, research fellow, University of Cambridge

Elise Archias, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago

Miriam Arenberg, psychologist (retired)

Ruben Arevshatyan, Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerevan

Patricio Aros, Museum guide

AJ Artemel, Director of Communications, Yale School of Architecture

John Peter Askew, artist

Naby Avcioglu, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Hunter College, CUNY

Yuri Avvakumov, architect and curator

Hicham Awad, Adjunct Instructor, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Nick Axel, Deputy Editor, e-flux Architecture; Head of Architectural Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Diana Ayton-Shenker, CEO, Leonardo

Maja Babic, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Groningen

Victoria Baena, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

George Baker, Professor of the History of Art, UCLA 

Laela Baker, student, Cooper Union

Alexander Bala, PhD student, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Melanie Ball, PhD student, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Marek Bartelik, Honorary President of AICA International

Christina Barton, Director, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Barbora Bartunkova, PhD candidate, Yale University

Basile Baudez, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

Christiane Bauermeister, Writer

Thomas Beard, Director, Light Industry, New York

John Beckmann, Axis Mundi Design, New York

Raffaele Bedarida, Associate Professor of Art History, Cooper Union

Fabien Bellat, Associate Professor, Paris Val de Seine School of Architecture

Juliet Bellow, Associate Professor of Art History, American University

Vladimir Belogolovsky, Founder of Curatorial Project

Elizabet Bereslavskaya, Architect, Designer

Deborah Berke, Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture, Yale School of Architecture

Daniella Berman, Art Historian & Curator

Shannon Bewley, PhD candidate in the History of Art & Architecture, Boston University

Adelita Husni Bey, artist and pedagogue 

Jackson Beyda, Cooper Union alumnus

Claire Bishop, Professor, Art History, CUNY Graduate Center 

Sabine Bitter, artist, Professor Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Clayton Black, Associate Professor of History, Washington College

Roger Black, chair, Type Network

Rosalind Polly Blakesley, Professor of Russian and European Art, University of Cambridge

Sara Blaylock, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth

Patricia Blessing, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

India Block, Deputy Editor of Disegno

Daria Bocharnikova, PhD, Cinquantenaire Campus of Arts and Sciences, Brussels

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Sarah Bojsen, student, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

James Bonacci, Artist

David Bond, independent scholar

Jonathan Bone, Assistant Professor, William Paterson University (retired)

Christianna Bonin, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Art & Design, American University of Sharjah

Jennifer Borland, Professor of Art History, Oklahoma State University

Aleksandar Bošković, Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University

Annie Bourneuf, Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Anna Clara Bova, Professor of Italian Literature, Bari University, Italy

Max Bowens, PhD candidate, Harvard University 

John E. Bowlt, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California

Linda Brady Artist/ Alumni Castleton State College Vermont

Rodrigo Brandao, Director of Comms, The Intercept

David Brandenberger, Professor of History and Global Studies, University of Richmond

Flora Brandl, PhD Student, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Lev Bratishenko, Curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Christopher Bratton, Executive Director, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research

Rachel Braun, artist and designer

Monica Bravo, Assistant Professor of Art History, USC

Jess Brier, Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Michael Brinley, PhD candidate University of Pennsylvania

Adare Brown, Designer

Molly Brunson, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, History of Art, Yale University

Greg Bryda, Asst Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University

Joe Bucciero, PhD candidate, Princeton University

Craig Buckley, Associate Professor, History of Art, Yale University

Marcel Buehler, Artist

William M Burton, assistant professor of French, UC Berkeley

Olga Bush, Visiting Scholar, Vassar College

Hugo H. Busse, Architect, Urban Design, Berlin

Ian Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC-Davis

Jean Campbell, Professor of Art HIstory, Emory University

Elizabeth Caris, PhD candidate, Emory University

Caroline Carlsmith, Mellon Foundation Fellow in Time-based Media Art Conservation, the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Gregory Cartelli, PhD candidate, Princeton University School of Architecture 

Alexandra Casasco-Lucarelli, Student, The Cooper Union

Anton Cebalo, Writer

Antonella Cecconi, Founder/Art writer of Nomade Culturale

Elise Chagas, PhD Candidate, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

Swagato Chakravorty, PhD candidate, History of Art, Yale University / Daniel W. Dietrich II Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Carson Chan, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Cindy Chang, museum exhibition designer

Jiawen Chen, thesis student, cooper union

Sally S Chen, MArch II, Cooper Union ‘21, Yale ‘23

Irina Chernyakova, PhD candidate, Columbia University

Dr. Donna Chirico, Professor and Faculty Caucus Leader, York College, CUNY

Peter Christensen, Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities and Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, University of Rochester

Jennifer Chuong, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows

Jason Cieply, Assistant Professor, Hamilton College

Joseph L. Clarke, Associate Professor of Architectural History, University of Toronto 

Catarina Coelho, Staff, Adjunct and Graduate faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 

Yve Laris Cohen, Artist and Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union School of Art

Beatriz Colomina, Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architecture, Princeton University

Nikki Columbus, writer

Rebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

Elena Comay del Junco, Assistant professor of philosophy, University of Connecticut

Maureen Connor, Artist and Emerita Professor, Queens College, CUNY 

Pier Luigi Consagra, Artist, Associate Adjunct, Pratt Institute School of The Arts

J. English Cook, PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Adriana Amelia Cordovi, Artist, Student and former Trustee of the Cooper Union

Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University

Michael Corris, Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University 

Sarah Cowan, Assistant Professor, DePauw University

David Cowlard, Programme Leader — Photography & Media Arts, Whitecliffe

Robert Crane, PhD, Independent Scholar

Christina E. Crawford, Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History & Associate Professor of Architectural History, Emory University

Todd Cronan, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Emory University

Olivia Crough, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute 

Mikolaj Czerwinski, PhD candidate, Art History, University of Illinois

Catherine Quan Damman, Linda Nochlin Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 

Jackson Davidow, Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art Museums

Cynthia Davidson, Editor, Log

Lawrence Davis, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University

Deo Deiparine, Adjunct Instructor, Cooper Union

Zhenia Dementyeva, Cooper Union AR '21

TJ Demos, Professor, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz

Alexandra Dennett, PhD candidate, History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

Dylan DeWald, B. Arch 2020, Cooper Union

Dov Diamond, Student, The Cooper Union

David Diao, artist

Eva Díaz, Associate Professor, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute

Michael (Dekel) Dickel, David Yellin Academic College of Education

William Diebold, Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College (emeritus)

Justin Diles, Associate Professor of Architecture, The Ohio State University

Elias Dills, Student and Acting Board Member, The Cooper Union

Edward Dimendberg, Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine

Mitesh Dixit, Founder DOMAIN Office / Department of Architecture & Design I Politecnico di Torino

Rossen Djagalov, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University

Brigid Doherty, Associate Professor of German and Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Florian Dombois, Artist and Professor of Experimental Systems in Transdisciplinarity, Zurich University of the Arts

Claire Donato, Assistant Chairperson of Writing, Pratt Institute

Angie Door

Maeve K. Doyle, Assistant Professor of Art History, Eastern Connecticut State University

Vesna Dragojevic, social designer

Erica Drennan, Associate Director, Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College

Megan Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Richmond

Cindy Duan, student, The Cooper Union

Sara Duell, MFA student, Yale University School of Art

Ha Duong, Associate Editor at BOMB Magazine

Nicolay Duque-Robayo, PhD student, Columbia University

Lisabeth During, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pratt Institute of Art and Design

Jonathan Duval, Assistant Curator of Architecture & Design, MIT Museum 

Thierry de Duve, Professor, Hunter College, New York

Janna Dyk, freelance curator, writer, artist, Hunter College 2015

Megan Eardley, PhD candidate, Princeton University

Martha Easton, Associate Professor of Art History, Saint Joseph’s University

Anastasia Eccles, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

Andrew Economos Miller, Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow, Kent State University

Caryl Emerson, Professor Emeritus in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History, Yale University

Charles Eppley, Assistant Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance, Arizona State University

Firat Erdim, Associate Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University

Dan Erdman, Senior Archivist, Media Burn Archive 

Nikolay Erofeev, Postdoctoral Fellow, History and Theory of Architecture, University of Kassel

Mario Espliego, visual artist, Spain

Emily Everhart, Assistant Professor of Art History, Art Academy of Cincinnati

Margaret Ewing, Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery

Marko Faber, graduate student, Central European University (Vienna)

Michelle Facos, Professor of Art History, Indiana University-Bloomington

Qianhe Fan, Cooper Union Arch 2022

Teresa Fankhänel, Associate Curator, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles

Farnoosh Farmer, Designer, MArch.II 18

Grigori Fateyev, principal Art Forms Architecture, alumni Arch 98

Neil Flanagan, Scholar-in-Residence, Heurich House Museum, Washington DC

Fabrizio Fenghi, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown University

Francesca Ferrari, PhD candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Joanna Fiduccia, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University

Diana Flatto, PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh

Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design

Iuliia Fomina, architect/designer

Meghan Forbes, freelance writer, curator, translator

Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Professor of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University 

Ethan Fraenkel, PhD student, Germanic Languages, Columbia University

Deborah Frizzell, William Paterson University of New Jersey (retired)  

xintong fu, student, The Cooper Union

Elvis Fuentes, PhD candidate, Art History, Rutgers University

Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister, Apl. Prof., Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte & LMU Munich

Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

Susanne Fusso, Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages, Wesleyan University

Kay Gabriel, Instructor, NYU-Gallatin

Chase Galis, PhD candidate, ETH Zürich gta

Gregory Gan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin

Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski

Gary Garvin, writer, retired college English instructor

Marie Gasper-Hulvat, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History, Kent State University at Stark

Alex Gendler, writer/editor and educator

Foivos Geralis, PhD Student, School of Architecture, Princeton University; Cooper Union Alumnus

Aglaya Glebova, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

Moritz Gleich, Director gta Verlag, ETH Zurich

Oleksiy Godz AR '22

Polina Godz, Brown/RISD '16, Type@Cooper '21

Baris Gokturk, Columbia University

Romy Golan, Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY

Luba Golburt, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

Nathan Goldberg, PhD Student, Emory University

Aaron Goldstein, Architect, Cornell B.Arch 2015

Alexey Golubev, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston

Emerson Goo, Writer, BLA Landscape Architecture '23, Cal Poly SLO

Bradley A Gorski, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University

Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University

Oxana Gourinovitch, Architectural Historian, RWTH Aachen

Charlotte Grace, Royal College of Art

James Graham, Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts

Frida Grahn, PhD candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana

Lindsay Grant Gil, PhD (UPenn ‘20), instructional designer/independent scholar

Jaiya A. Gray, PhD candidate, Art History & Visual Studies, University of Victoria

Christopher T. Green, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Professor, History of Art, University of California Berkeley

Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union

Vanessa Grossman, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology

Christiane Gruber, Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan

Lionel G.S., Student, Cooper Union

Chong Gu, AR 20’ Cooper Union

Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernandez, Art History, Kalamazoo College

Sean Guillory, REEES, University of Pittsburgh, SRB Podcast

Ksenya Gurshtein, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University 

Venya Gushchin, PhD student, Columbia University

Kai Gutschow, Associate Head, Carnegie Mellon, School of Architecture

Andrea Gyorody, Director, Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University

Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Rochester

Chelsea Haines, Assistant Teaching Professor, Art History, Arizona State University

Sarah Hamill, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sarah Lawrence College

Eugene Han, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Lehigh University

Lauren Hanson, Independent Curator

Owen Hatherley, Writer and Editor

Natilee Harren, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Houston School of Art

Steven E. Harris, Professor of Modern Russian and European History, University of Mary Washington

Andrew Hartwell, Communications Manager, The Wende Museum

Andrei Harwell, Senior Critic, Yale School of Architecture

Charlotte Healy, Senior Research Associate in Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago

Ekaterina Heath, Research Associate, The University of Sydney 

Lorenz Hegel, PhD candidate, Film & Media Studies, Yale University

Joseph Henry, PhD candidate, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

Andrew Hebert, Student, The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Class of 2024

Genevieve Hendricks, Associate Professor of Art History, Hollins University

Zachary Hicks, PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California Berkeley

Sonja Hildebrand, Professor and Prorector for Research in the Humanities and Equal Opportunities, Università della Svizzera italiana

Rika Hiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Scripps College

Yung Ho Chang, FAIA Professor Emeritus MIT

Michelle Hobart, Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities & Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, NY.

Alison Hokanson, Associate Curator, 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jake Hokanson AR01 Architect

Steven Holl, FAIA

John North Hopkins, Associate Professor, NYU Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts

Daniel Horn, FU Berlin

Maria Hristova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Lewis and Clark College

Lucy Hunter, PhD candidate, Yale University

Mikhail Iampolski, Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University

Milica Ilicic, Independent Scholar

Margaret Innes, Assistant Professor of Art History, Syracuse University

Kristy Ironside, Assistant Professor of History, McGill University

Brad Isnard

Alfredo Jaar, Artist

Dr. Ladislav Jackson, Vice Dean for International Relations, Assistant Professor of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

Matthew Jesse Jackson, Professor of Art History, Chair of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago

Ishita Jain, Certificate Student, The New Centre for Research & Practice

Paul B. Jaskot, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University

Rebecca John, Student, The Cooper Union

Josie Johnson, Curatorial Fellow, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Samuel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Syracuse University

Timothy Johnson, History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Rebecca Johnston, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT-Austin Institute for Historical Studies

Daniel Jonas-Roche, Adjunct Architecture Professor

Haley Jones, PhD candidate in Art History, Emory University

David Joselit, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor and Chair, Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University

Flavin Judd, Judd Foundation

Tom Junes, Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences

Hyun-Tae Jung, Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology

Jacqueline Jung, Professor of History of Art, Yale University

Lewis Kachur, Professor of Art History, Kean University

Daniel Kaiser, Professor of History Emeritus, Grinnell College

Antony Kalashnikov, postdoctoral fellow, University of Alberta

Liisa Kaljula, PhD, Tallinn University, Art Museum of Estonia

Lydia Kallipoliti, Associate Professor, The Cooper Union

Georgy Kantor, Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford

Özge Karagöz, PhD candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

Farrah Karapetian, artist and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, University of San Diego

Damir Karbić

Pepe Karmel, Professor, Department of Art History, NYU

Anna Kats, PhD Student, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Susan Katz, Program Director, CEC ArtsLink

Catriona Kelly FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge

Matthew Kendall, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Illinois, Chicago

Devin Kenny, Artist, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford

Karen Kettering, Principal, Kettering Associates

Christiane Ketteler

Evgeniy Khain, Associate Professor of Physics, Oakland University

Pavel Khazanov, Assistant Professor, German Russian & East European Lang. & Lit., Rutgers University

Mark Khidekel and Regina Khidekel, Lazar Khidekel Society, New York

Marina Khrustaleva, architectural historian

Christina Kiaer, The Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

Dara Kiese, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute

Saekyung Kim, 5th year architecture student, Cooper Union

Seyun Kim, Engineering, The Cooper Union

Yulia Kim, PhD candidate, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University

Anastasia Kinigopoulo, Cooper Union, Art 2010

Katie Kirkland, PhD candidate Film/Comparative Literature, Yale University 

Defne Kirmizi, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Boston University

Alyona Kirtsova, artist

Chloë Kitzinger, Assistant Professor of Russian, Rutgers University

Nadieszda Kizenko, Professor of History, SUNY Albany

Tim Klähn, Reference Librarian, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Julia Klaniczay, cofounder, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest

Alex Klein, Yale School of Architecture, Master of Environmental Design 2022

Elias Kleinbock, PhD candidate, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Cynthia Klima, Associate Professor of German, SUNY Geneseo

Karen Koehler, Chair, Art and the History of Art, Amherst College

Ken R. Koense NCARB, Architect

Tom Kohut, Writer and Critic

Rem Koolhaas, architect

Randall Korman, Emeritus Professor, Syracuse (AR '72) University 

Anna Korneeva, March 2 Student, Yale School of Architecture

Katerina Korola, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University

Vera Koshkina, Independent Scholar

Juliet Koss, Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Professor of the History of Architecture & Art; Chair, Department of Art History, Scripps College

Max Koss, Research Associate, Provenance Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

James Kostaras, architect and urban planner

Anastasia Kostina, Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Yale University

Shiv Kotecha, writer

Sotirios Kotoulas, Artist-In-Residence, Dartmouth College

Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Michael Kowalsky, designer, PCF-P

Rosalind Krauss, University Professor, Columbia University

Olga Kravets, School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London

Dr. Sabine Kriebel, History of Art, University College Cork, Ireland

Harish Krishnamoorthy, Rice '23

Benjamin Krishnar-Haslam, B. Arch student, The Cooper Union

Dejan Kršić, graphic designer / Professor, Department of Visual Communications, UMAS, Split, Croatia

Ekaterina Kulinicheva, PhD student, Art History, Northwestern University

Julia Kulon, PhD student, Slavic Studies, University of Chicago

Michael Kunichika, Associate Professor of Russian; Director, Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College

David Kurkovskiy, PhD student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California Berkeley

Marta Kuzma, Professor of Art, Yale School of Art

Sanjana Lahiri, Cooper Union Alum

Thomas Lahusen, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Maya Lantsova, artist and teacher

Chung-Wei Lee, March II ‘13

Eunji Lee, Assistant Professor of Art Education, Kyungnam University

Lisa Lee, Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University

Yelena Lembersky, Author and project director at the Uniterra Foundation

Allison Leigh, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Ana María León, Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard University

Inga Leonova, Vice President, CannonDesign

Madeline Leung Coleman, Culture Features Editor, New York Magazine

Dan Levenson, artist

Pavle Levi, Professor, Stanford University

Lawrence Eric Levine, Cooper Union Arch '69

Sura Levine, Emerita Professor of Art History, Hampshire College

Yuri Leving, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Sam Lewitt, Artist

Deborah Lewittes, Associate Professor of Art History, City University of New York, Bronx Community College

Sophia Li, PhD candidate, Princeton University

Caleb Lightfoot 

Parker Limón, Cooper Union AR ‘19

Jamie Lindsey, M.Arch II Cooper Union ‘21

Pam Lins, Acting Director, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University

Mark Lipovetsky, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University 

Jingqi Kay Liu, M.S.Arch 24, Cooper Union

Thomas Locher, artist

Christina Lodder, art historian, Honorary Professor, University ofYork, UK

Carolyn Loeb, Associate Professor Emerita, RCAH, Michigan State University

Kevin Loftus, Architect

Karen Lohrmann, Coordinator MS Design of Cities, Southern California Institute of Architecture

Christopher Long, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Pamela O. Long, Independent Historian

Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The City University of New York

Alice Lovejoy, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Moving Image, Media, and Sound, University of Minnesota

James Lowder, Assistant Professor, Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union

Angelina Lucento, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Ulrich Ludat, independent artist, Germany

Megan R. Luke, Associate Professor, University of Southern California

Alan Lundgard, Alum

Daniel Luo, 2nd year architecture, Cooper Union

Yudi Luo, Undergraduate Student, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Deidre Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature, Harvard University

Jon Maass, Assistant Professor Adjunct, The Cooper Union (Cooper Union, 1997)

John MacKay, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor and DGS of Film and Media Studies, Yale University

Michael Mackenzie, Professor of Art History, Grinnell College

Namik Mackic, History & Theory Faculty & Research Program Manager, SCI-Arc

Deliana Simeonova, artist