Visiting Artist

Plinio Hernandez

Founder of Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
Plinio Hernandez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the ART/CITY Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2012.

Plinio Hernandez is a graduate from UC Berkeley were he received his MFA in Art Practice, he also has a BFA in photography from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. While at UC Berkeley Plinio focused on his studio practice but also became interested in how contemporary social media tools affect politics, education and identity. At UCB he taught classes both in the New Media Department as well as Art Practice Department....

EJ Hill

Contemporary American Artist

EJ Hill is an artist born, raised, and based in South Central, Los Angeles. Hill’s practice focuses largely on challenging the social aspects and systems that construct a body. He is not only interested in how bodies and subjectivities are formed, understood, and valued within different social and cultural contexts, but also how they redefine the parameters that govern which of them are allowed to exist freely.

Hill received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013 and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. His work has...

Megan Hoetger

Performance Researcher, Curator, and Historian
Megan Hoetger gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016.

Megan Hoetger is a performance historian, curator, and hard femme. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley where she was mostly hanging out with activists, community organisers, and interdisciplinary circles of folks from dance studies and theatre-making, art practice and art history, geography, critical theory and ethnic studies, comparative literature, architecture and design, urban planning, film and media studies, gender and women’s...

Yen-Ting Hsu

Sound artist and Composer
Yenting Hsu was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art...

Shih Chieh Huang

Sculpture and Installation Artist
Shih Chieh Huang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Shih Chieh Huang was born in 1975 in Taiwan and lives and works in New York. Fascinated with science and biology, his work is characterized by playful installations composed of everyday objects that are transformed into ethereal sculptures, conjuring up magical realms. He received his BFA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001. From...

Identity X

UC Berkeley Competitive Dance Team
Identity X gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Identity X is a UC Berkeley competitive dance team created in Fall 2013.

Kurt Johannessen

Artist in Performance, Video, Books, and Installations
Kurt Johannessen was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Born 1960 in Norway, Kurt Johannessen works within performance artist's books video and installations since the early eighties. His work is minimalist and poetic, and at times with a touch of humour. He is his own publisher and has produced more than 50 books, many of them translated into English. The books vary from just one sentence to short stories or just pictures. He has created more than 150 different performances and has...

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to intimate drawings, performances and videos. Through his practice he seeks to challenge...

Terry Jones

Producer, Screenwriter, and Director
Terry Jones gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 5, 2022.

Haudenosaunee filmmaker Terry Jones is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, who are located in western New York State. Terry has a passion for sharing his Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history and culture through his film works. He strives to find a balance between entertaining and educating his audiences. Terry is currently pursuing his MFA in film ptoduction at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Terry’s short films, many co-directed with Indian filmmaker...

Sean San José

Writer, Director, Performer, and Co-Founder of Campo Santo
Sean San José was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Chavez Ravine Conference and Performances at the Arts Research Center on March 4, 2016.

Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performance group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color centered new audiences and has premiered over 100 new pieces. For 15 years, he was the Program Director of Performance under Deborah Cullinan, alongside Kevin B. Chen & Rebeka...