Visiting Artist

Cara Romero

Contemporary Fine Art Photographer
Cara Romero gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2023.

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective...

Martha Rosler

Conceptual Artist
Martha Rosler was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012.

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women.

Rosler has for many years produced works on war and the national security climate, connecting life at home with the conduct of war abroad, in which her photomontage series...

Rude Mechs

Multi-Disciplinary Collective of Theater Artists
Rude Mechs gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Since 1996, Rude Mechs has been crafting a genre-defying slate of original theatrical productions infused with big ideas, humor, and stunning spectacle. Their work is characterized by the use of play in performance, theaters as gathering spaces for audiences and artists, and humor as a tool for intellectual exploration. Rude Mechs tours these performances nationally and internationally, operates CRASHBOX, a versatile space for rehearsal, performance, and workshops, maintains a...

Mario Santamaría

Postdigital Artist
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024.

The artistic practice of Mario Santamaría (Burgos, Spain, 1985) studies the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention to two processes, the representational practices and the machines vision or mediation. Using different tactics such as appropiation, remake or assembly, his work involves different fields like the conflict, the memory, the virtuality or the surveillance. He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2015),...

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

Rolla Selbak

Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Storyteller
Rolla Selbak gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV, with TV projects most recently in development at 20th Century Fox and Sony.She imprints her fresh point of view as a Palestinian American, having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially topical issues that unite audiences....

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Artist, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata Sengupta gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is co-founder, along with Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi, of the Raqs Media Collective. Since its inception in 1992, the members of the Collective have worked in a wide range of forms and formats. In their words, “they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces,...

Tiffany Shlain

Filmmaker, Artist, and Author
Tiffany Shlain gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,bestselling author...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of...

Daniel Leeman Smith

Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer, and Program Manager of NYU's Creative Career Hub
Daniel Leeman Smith gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar/Director Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 10, 2024. Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud two-spirit citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is a New York City based director, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and theatre educator whose work is positioned at the intersection of art, education, community, and activism, focusing on Native joy.

Recent credits include Stories of the Land (Dramaturg, Long Wharf Theatre), Chicago: Pigeon (Dramaturg, New Native Play Festival, Yale Indigenous Performing...