Chat Travieso is an artist, designer, and researcher, as well as the co-founder of the multidisciplinary collaborative duo Yeju & Chat, with Yeju Choi. His practice encompasses community-centered urban interventions, public art projects, and research initiatives. Incorporating play and a participatory process, Travieso’s work seeks to reinforce social bonds in our public spaces. His past projects have been commissioned by or organized in collaboration with various non-profits, cultural institutions, and civic agencies, including the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, Hester Street, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NYC Parks Department, NYC DOT, the Cleveland Public Library, and the Cambridge Arts Council. He is a past Faculty Fellow for the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School and a Participatory Design Fellow at Design Trust for Public Space. Honors include the United States Artist Fellowship in Architecture & Design and the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design with Yeju Choi. His research has been supported by the Graham Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Columbia GSAPP Anti-Racism Curriculum Development Award, and his writing has been featured in Places Journal, AD (Architectural Design), MAS Context, and Urban Omnibus. Travieso was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture. He has also previously taught at Columbia GSAPP, Parsons School of Design, City College of New York, Queens College, Pratt Institute, and as part of Dark Matter U.

Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts appointment pending Board of Governors approval.

Meet Chat Travieso