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.
John Alcorn, illustrator
Stan Allen, former Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture
Alex Bag, video artist
Elizabeth Gowdy Baker, portraitist
Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture"
Donald Baechler, painter
Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs
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
Kadar Brock, contemporary abstract artist
Steve Brodner, cartoonist
Dik Browne, cartoonist and creator of Hägar the Horrible
Norman Bridwell, cartoonist and creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog
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
Seymour Chwast, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
John Walter Christie, engineer and inventor
Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist
Miriam Cooper, actress
Will Cotton, painter
Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the flash-lamp
Amy Cutler, artist
William Francis Deegan, architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway
Roy DeCarava, photographer
Bruce Degen, illustrator for The Magic School Bus
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
John M. Eargle, Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and musician
Thomas Edison, inventor
Jeffrey Epstein, investor
Mitch Epstein, photographer
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
Robert Florczak, artist, illustrator, author, composer
Laura Ford, sculptor
Felix Frankfurter, former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Brad Friedmutter, architect
Janet Gardner, filmmaker
Paul Garrin, filmmaker
Milton Glaser, graphic designer, creator of the I Love New York logo, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
T.J. Gottesdiener, architect and manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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
Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design.
Kim Holleman, artist, MIT Media Lab Social Computing Group
Russell Hulse, 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Alexander Isley, graphic designer
Patty Jenkins, filmmaker
Sandy Jimenez, comic book artist
Crockett Johnson, author of Harold and the Purple Crayon
Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman
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
Alfred A. Lama, New York State Assemblyman and co-sponsor of Mitchell-Lama housing legislation
Thomas W. Lamb, architect and designer of theaters and cinemas
Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey from 1929–1932.
Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
Whitfield Lovell, artist
Herb Lubalin, graphic designer, creative director for publications: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, designed a typeface ITC Avant Garde.
Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator
Noah Lyon, artist
Jay Maisel, photographer
Fred Marcellino, illustrator
Christian Marclay artist, composer
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Joseph Margulies, artist
Alexia Massalin, computer scientist and programmer
Abbott Miller, designer
Mike Mills, filmmaker
Matthew Monahan, sculptor
Toshiko Mori, architect
A. Harry Moore, 39th Governor of New Jersey
Jacqueline Moss, art historian, educator
Michel Mossessian, architect
Wangechi Mutu, artist
Victor Nellenbogen, architect
Albert Nerken, chemical engineer, industrialist and philanthropist
Vera Neumann, artist known for colored linen patterns and scarves signed "Vera" by The Vera Company
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
Reynold Ruffins, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, artists and educators
Charles Rosen, engineer and pioneer in artificial intelligence in development of Shakey the Robot
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
Augusta Savage, sculptor
Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter
Sy Schulman, civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993-1997)
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
Redmond Simonsen, graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc.
Neal Slavin, photographer
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
Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director
Eric E. Sumner, engineer and contributor to the early development of switching systems
Philip Taaffe, painter
TRUE, artist
Hy Turkin, sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopedia
Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator
Stan Vanderbeek, animator
Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche designer
Allyson Vieira, artist
Jovan Karlo Villalba, painter
Louis Waldman, engineer and a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation
Edward J. Wasp, engineer and pioneer of slurry pipelines
Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculptor
Tom Wesselmann, painter
Alice Wetterlund, comedian
Jack Whitten, painter
Christopher Wilmarth, American sculptor
Jerome Witkin, painter
Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer
Dan Witz, painter, street artist
Tobi Wong, designer, artist
Caroline Woolard, artist
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