Charlie White | |
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Born |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
July 21, 1972
Residence | Pittsburgh, PA |
Alma mater | School of Visual Arts (BFA), and Art Center College of Design (MFA) |
Occupation | Artist, Academic |
Years active | 1996–present |
Charlie White (born 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist and academic
White received his BFA in 1994 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and received his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, in 1998. He held the position of professor at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 2003-2016. Since mid-2016 White has held the position of professor and Head of School at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
White grew up in Philadelphia. He was educated at Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. While a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he worked as an assistant to artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham and studied with Marilyn Minter.
White moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to attend the Art Center College of Design, where he studied with artists Stephen Prina, Mike Kelley and Christopher Williams, and received his MFA in 1998. While a student, White created the project Femalien, which was published in CHERI magazine. The magazine was sold at an exhibition at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in November/December of 1996.