List of alumni of Cooper Union
Awards received by Cooper Union alumni include one Nobel Prize in Physics, a Pritzker Prize, twelve Rome Prizes, 23 Guggenheim Fellowships, three MacArthur Fellowships, nine Chrysler Design Awards, and three American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture. The school also boasts 34 Fulbright Scholars since 2001, and thirteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships since 2004.[1]
A
- John Alcorn, illustrator
- Stan Allen, former Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
- Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture
- David Attie, photographer
B
- Donald Baechler, painter
- Alex Bag, video artist
- Elizabeth Gowdy Baker, portraitist
- Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture"
- Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs
- Max Becher, artist and educator
- Lily Benson, filmmaker and visual artist
- Dave Berg, cartoon artist and main contributor of Mad magazine illustrations
- Renata Bernal, painter
- Emile Berliner, invented the vinyl record
- Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
- Victor Gustav Bloede, chemist
- Louise Brann, muralist
- Kenneth Bridbord, physician, known for his work in disease prevention (AIDS), global health, and international education[2][3][4][5][6]
- Norman Bridwell, cartoonist and creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Kadar Brock, contemporary abstract artist
- Steve Brodner, cartoonist
- Dik Browne, cartoonist and creator of Hägar the Horrible
C
- Albert Carnesale, former chancellor of UCLA and dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
- Martin Charnin, Tony Award-winning lyricist, writer, and theatre director
- Remy Charlip, choreographer, writer, and illustrator
- Ching Ho Cheng, artist
- John Walter Christie, engineer and inventor
- Seymour Chwast, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
- Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist
- Anna Conway, painter
- Miriam Cooper, actress
- Will Cotton, painter
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the flash-lamp and co-founder of Lionel Corporation
- Amy Cutler, artist
D
- Roy DeCarava, photographer
- William Francis Deegan, architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway
- Bruce Degen, illustrator for The Magic School Bus
- Freda Diamond, industrial designer known for designing mass market home goods
- Elizabeth Diller, with Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Michael Doret, graphic designer, font designer, lettering artist
- Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer art director for CBS
- Eric Drooker, painter
- William Dubilier, inventor of mica capacitor and radio pioneer
E
- John M. Eargle, Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and musician
- Thomas Edison, inventor[7][8]
- Jeffrey Epstein, financial advisor and convicted sex offender
- Mitch Epstein, photographer
F
- Adriana Farmiga, visual artist and Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art
- Robert Feintuch, painter
- Joel H. Ferziger, authority in computational fluid dynamics
- Irving Fierstein, painter, designer
- Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker
- Audrey Flack, pioneer of photorealism
- Max Fleischer, animator
- Laura Ford, sculptor
- Felix Frankfurter, former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Brad Friedmutter, architect
G
- Janet Gardner, filmmaker
- Paul Garrin, filmmaker
- Philip Gips, film poster artist
- Milton Glaser, graphic designer, creator of the I Love New York logo, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
- Minetta Good, muralist, painter and printmaker[9]
- T.J. Gottesdiener, architect and manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
H
- Hans Haacke, artist
- Dimitri Hadzi, sculptor
- William Harnett, painter
- Matthew Harrison, film director
- Sagi Haviv, partner, Chermayeff & Geismar; designer of the Library of Congress and Armani Exchange logos
- John Hejduk, one of New York Five, a group of five New York City architects
- Eva Hesse, sculptor
- Angela Hill, professional mixed martial arts fighter[10]
- Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design
- Kim Holleman, artist, MIT Media Lab Social Computing Group
- Shelby Hughes, artist and designer
- Russell Hulse, 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics[11]
I
- Alexander Isley, graphic designer
J
- Francis Jehl, electrochemist and inventor
- Patty Jenkins, filmmaker
- Sandy Jimenez, comic book artist
- Crockett Johnson, author of Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Willard F. Jones, naval architect, head of National Safety Council's marine section and Vice President of Gulf Oil[12]
K
- Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman[13]
- Michael Kasha, physical chemist and guitar designer
- Alex Katz, figurative artist
- William King, artist
- R.B. Kitaj, painter
- Herman Charles Koenig (1893–1959), book collector, friend of H. P. Lovecraft
- Lee Krasner, painter
- Kathleen Kucka, painter
- Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist, editor and co-founder of Mad
L
- Alfred A. Lama, New York State Assemblyman and co-sponsor of Mitchell-Lama housing legislation[14]
- Thomas W. Lamb, architect and designer of theaters and cinemas
- Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey, 1929–1932[15]
- Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
- Socrates Litsios, public health historian
- Whitfield Lovell, artist
- Herb Lubalin, graphic designer, creative director for publications Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde; designed the typeface ITC Avant Garde
- Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator
- Noah Lyon, artist
M
- Jay Maisel, photographer
- Sylvia Plimack Mangold
- Fred Marcellino, illustrator
- Christian Marclay, artist, composer
- Judith Margolis, artist, essayist, book designer, curator
- Joseph Margulies, artist
- Alexia Massalin, computer scientist and programmer[16]
- Crystal McKenzie, designer
- Abbott Miller, designer
- Laura Miller, production designer, filmmaker
- Mike Mills, filmmaker
- Matthew Monahan, sculptor
- A. Harry Moore, 39th Governor of New Jersey
- Toshiko Mori, architect
- Jacqueline Moss, art historian, educator
- P. Buckley Moss, artist
- Michel Mossessian, architect
- Wangechi Mutu, artist
N
- Roy Nachum (born 1979), Israeli New York-based contemporary artist
- Victor Nellenbogen, architect
- Vera Neumann, artist known for colored linen patterns and scarves signed "Vera" by the Vera Company
O
- Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacher
P
- Victor Papanek, early proponent of ecologically and socially responsible design
- Bruce Pasternack, President and CEO of the Special Olympics
- Eleanore Pettersen, architect
- William Gardner Pfann, known for his development of zone melting
- Ron Pompei, architect and founder of Pompei A.D.
- Charles E. Pont, painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer
- Neal Pozner, artist and designer at DC Comics
Q
R
- Andrea Robbins, artist and educator
- Charles Rosen, engineer and pioneer in artificial intelligence in development of Shakey the Robot
- Reynold Ruffins, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
S
- Amy Sadao, Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor
- Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band Skeleton Key
- Alfred Sarant, engineer and Soviet spy
- Edward Sargent, 19th-century architect
- Richard Sarles, CEO and General Manager of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority[17][18]
- Augusta Savage, sculptor
- Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter
- Sy Schulman, civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993–1997)[19]
- Ricardo Scofidio, with Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Samuel R. Scottron, inventor, grandfather of entertainer Lena Horne
- Georgette Seabrooke, muralist, artist, art therapist and educator
- George Segal, pop art sculptor
- Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), painter, writer, poet, educator
- Redmond Simonsen, graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc.
- Neal Slavin, photographer
- John L. Smith, German-born American chemist, pharmaceutical executive and co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Zak Smith, artist
- Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and Superintendent of School Buildings, New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923
- Edward Sorel, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
- Mark A. Stamaty, cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator
- Edwin King Stodola, chief scientist on Project Diana, which bounced radio waves off the moon for the first time in 1946
- Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director
- Eric E. Sumner, engineer and contributor to the early development of switching systems
T
- Philip Taaffe, painter
- Katharine Lamb Tait, artist
- Maximilian Toch, chemist and early pioneer of art forensics
- TRUE, artist
- Hy Turkin, sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopedia
U
- Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator
V
- Stan Vanderbeek, animator
- Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche designer
- Allyson Vieira, artist
- Jovan Karlo Villalba, painter
W
- Louis Waldman, engineer, labor lawyer, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation
- Edward J. Wasp, engineer and pioneer of slurry pipelines
- Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculptor
- Tom Wesselmann, painter
- Pennerton West, painter
- Alice Wetterlund, comedian
- Jack Whitten, painter
- Christopher Wilmarth, sculptor[20]
- Jerome Witkin, painter
- Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer
- Dan Witz, painter, street artist
- Tobi Wong, designer, artist
- Caroline Woolard, artist
X
Y
- Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, chemical engineer and nanotechnology scientist
Z
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