Visiting Artist

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator
Janet Delaney gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. Her color photographs of New York City in the 1980s were...

DJ Lamont

DJ, Founder of Fingersnaps Media Arts
DJ Lamont was a Visiting Artist Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Conference at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

DJ Lamont started playing with records when his mother gifted him a “Close N’ Play” record player for his 5th birthday in 1969 and he has been playing with records, cassettes, CD’s, DJ Software, and DJ Controllers ever since.

Established June 1, 2004, in DJ Lamont’s spare bedroom (on 20th & Folsom Street), hundreds of people over the past 15 years of all ages, genders, cultures, and...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist
Alex Donis gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2020.

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ conventional attitudes, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latino, and Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, photography, video, and works on paper.

He was born in 1964 in Chicago, IL and was educated...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis
Glenda Drew gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015.

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user...

Olya Dubatova

Painter, Filmmaker, Installation Artist
Olya Dubatova was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2016.

Olya Dubatova is a Russian/American artist based in New York, Tbilisi (Georgia), and Yucatan, Mexico. Dubatova’s work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums internationally, including Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum Aldobrandini (Rome) Riddoch Gallery in Mount Gambier, Australia, and the Bookstore Project in Amsterdam. She co-founded and was the director of BlenderLabs at USC (Los Angeles). BlenderLabs...

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk

Dramturg, Professor of Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University
Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within the scope of interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research concerns new dramaturgies, staging of documentary material, Applied theatre, and ethics and artistic research. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she developed the concept 'Theatre-ting', which is a meeting between the possibilities...

Fantastic Negrito

Singer-Songwriter of Blues, R&B, and Roots
Fantastic Negrito was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017.

Part love story, part historical excavation, Fantastic Negrito’s extraordinary new album, White Jesus Black Problems, is an exhilarating ode to the power of family and the enduring resilience of our shared humanity. Inspired by the illegal, interracial romance of his seventh generation grandparents—a white indentured servant and an enslaved Black man—in 1750s Virginia, the collection is bold and thought provoking, grappling with...

Claire Fontaine

Conceptual Artist
Claire Fontaine gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center in May 2013.

Claire Fontaine is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use...

Brennan Gerard

Film Director

Brennan Gerard was born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1978. Gerard received a BA in women’s and gender studies from Yale University, New Haven, in 2001. Gerard completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP) in 2010 and received a MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Art in 2013.

Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly began collaborating in 2003 and employ multiple disciplines—performance, video, and installation—to examine questions of collective and individual memory, gender and sexuality, queer...

Jeffrey Gibson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Jeffrey Gibson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2022.

Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the...