Visiting Artist

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Educator,
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

Their practice is grounded in...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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),...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist
Alex Donis gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Claire Fontaine

Conceptual Artist
Claire Fontaine gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center in May 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...