Visual Arts Lecture Series: Sunil Bald

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Sunil Bald has taught design studios, visualization courses, and theory seminars at Yale School of Architecture since 2006, serving as Associate Dean from 2017-2024.

Previously, he taught design and theory at Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and Parsons. Sunil co-found the New York-based Studio SUMO, which was featured as one of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices. In 2015, SUMO was awarded the Annual Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. SUMO’s work ranges in scale, type, and site from installations and exhibitions to institutional buildings in the United States and Asia and has been exhibited in institutions including the National Building Museum, MoMA, the Venice Biennale, the Field Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, and Tokyo’s GA Gallery, and the Urban Center.

Sunil’s research into architecture and culture in both Brazil and Japan has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Graham Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and the New York Fellowship for the Arts.