Visiting Curator

Lawrence Rinder

Contemporary Art Curator, Museum Director, Writer, and Former Director of BAMPFA
Lawrence R. Rinder was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium at the Arts Research Center on February 6, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website or social media.

Lawrence R. Rinder was the Director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) from 2008 to 2020. Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Rinder also served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of...

Lucía Sanromán

Director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City
Lucía Sanromán was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Arts and Public Service Gathering at the Arts Research Center on May 11, 2017.

Lucía Sanromán is the Director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. She is Curator at Large of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, where she previously served as Director of Visual Arts (2015–18). She was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from 2006-2011. As an independent curator, Sanromán was awarded the 2012 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship and a 2013 Warhol...

Sanjit Sethi

Artist, Writer, Curator, and President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Sanjit Sethi was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant/Speaker at the Location/Translation Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2012.

Sanjit Sethi (he/him) is currently President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has over two decades of experience as a cultural leader. Sethi’s previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute.

As an...

Super Futures Haunt Qollective

Artist Collective
Super Futures Haunt Qollective gave a Performance and Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 18, 2025.

Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) is an art and research based collaboration between three avatars.

In their terrestrial forms, SFHQ members F. Sam Jung (MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a sky person and urban planner in New York. C. Ree (MFA University of California, Irvine) is an artist and film programmer based in San Diego, California. Angie Morrill (Klamath Tribes...

Emiliano Valdés

Curator, Editor, Cultural Producer
Emiliano Valdés gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2017.

Emiliano Valdés (Guatemala, 1980) is Chief Curator at the Medellin Museum of Modern Art. Until recently, he was Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) and Co-Director of Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala), a multifaceted platform for experimentation in contemporary art based in Guatemala City. Prior to that, he was the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Curatorial Fellow at dOCUMENTA(13) and Curator/Head of Visual Arts at the Centro Cultural de España en...

Dominic Willsdon

Educator, Curator
Dominic Willsdon was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the The Arts and Public Service Conference at the Arts Research Center on May 11, 2017.

Dominic Willsdon is an educator and curator. He is the Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he is also associate professor in art education. He was formerly Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a Pedagogical Curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial (2013) and a Co-Curator of the 9th...

Tanya Zimbardo

Contemporary Art Curator
Tanya Zimbardo gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 6, 2017.

Tanya Zimbardo is a contemporary art curator based in San Francisco. As an assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she has curated exhibitions of work by contemporary artists Jim Campbell, Runa Islam, Pat O'Neill, and Kerry Tribe, as well as the two-person and group exhibitions Speculative Portraits, Future Histories: Theater Gates and Cauleen Smith, and The Studio Sessions. Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors...

Solveig Øvstebø

Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Astrup Fearnley Museet
Solveig Øvstebø 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.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1973, Solveig Øvstebø undertook post-graduate studies in art history at the University of Bergen and was the former Director of Bergen Kunsthall, developing it into one of the main contemporary art institutions in Norway, with a focus on production, research and discourse.

She has curated and...