Visiting Curator

Tina Kukielski

Director and Chief Curator at Art21
Tina Kukielski was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tina Kukielski joined Art21 after more than thirteen years as a contemporary art curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries. During her...

Thomas Jean Lax

Writer and Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA
Thomas Jean Lax was a Visiting Curator/Moderator at the Visual Activism Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 12, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Thomas Jean Lax is a curator and writer specializing in black art, queer study and performance. At the Museum of Modern Art, they organized the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022) about the gallery, founded by ...

Constance Lewallen

Former Adjunct Curator at University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Constance Lewallen gave a Visiting Curator Tour and Talk at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Constance Lewallen (1939–2022) was an American curator. She was known for her support of Conceptual art and West Coast artists. Lewallen was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MA from California State University, San Diego. She was an adjunct curator at the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive...

Víctor Albarracín Llanos

Writer, Curator, Visual Artist
Víctor Albarracín Llanos was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.] If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Víctor Albarracín Llanos is a writer, curator and visual artist, with an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. He is currently Artistic Director of Lugar A Dudas. He advanced film and television studies that he has never put into practice. To survive he has been a bookseller (Exopotamia, in Bogotá), an artist without...

Leigh Markopoulos

Curator, Art Writer, and Former Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts
Leigh Markopoulos was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Leigh Markopoulos (1968-2017) was a writer, editor, curator, arts manager, the Director of the Steven Leiber Trust, a significant collection of artist's books, ephemera, and works, and the chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco since 2008. Markopoulos came to San Francisco...

Angela Mattox

Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital
Angela Mattox was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

For over two decades, Angela Mattox has dedicated her career to supporting and championing contemporary artists as a multi-disciplinary funder and presenter. From 2020-2024, she served as Creative Capital’s Senior Manager of Awardee Engagement. In that role, she worked closely with Creative Capital awardees to support the development of their...

Mihnea Mircan

Curator and Writer
Mihnea Mircan was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant/Speaker at the Location/Translation Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mihnea Mircan is a curator based in Leuven, Belgium. As artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp between 2011-15, he curated, among others, ‘A Slowdown at the Museum’, ‘The Corner Show’ (with Wouter Davidts and Philip Metten), ‘1:1. Hans van Houwelingen and Jonas Staal’, the series ‘Cross-examinations’, and ‘Jean-Luc Moulène,...

Kim Nguyen

Curator and Head of Programs at the CCA Wattis Institute
Kim Nguyen was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kim Nguyen is a curator and writer based in San Francisco, where she is Curator and Head of Programs at the CCA Wattis Institute. Nguyen was formerly director and curator of Artspeak, an artist-run non-profit in Vancouver, Canada. Between 2011 and 2016 she presented exhibitions and publications with Alex Da Corte, Valérie Blass, Yuji Agematsu,...

Andrew & Deborah Rappaport

Minnesota Street Project Founders
Andrew & Deborah Rappaport gave a Visiting Curator Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 20, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Andrew & Deborah Rappaport are the founders of the Rappaport Family Foundation, and Skyline Public Works that funds a variety of non-profit organizations and some commercial ventures too. One of the commercial ventures they sponsor is Huffington Post. They also fund the Participatory Culture Foundation, an open-source video-based browser developer. The Rappaport's founded the...

Martha Redbone

Roots Music Singer
Martha Redbone facilitated a Songwriting Workshop offered as a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2025.

Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist Fellow celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music. Drawing from the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian upbringing in Kentucky and the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American roots music. Her work gives voice to social...