Curatorial

Douglas Crimp

American Art Historian, Critic, Curator, AIDS activist
Douglas Crimp gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 26, 2016.

Douglas Crimp (1944-2019) was the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of On the Museum's Ruins (1993), Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002), "Our Kind of Movie": The Films of Andy Warhol (2012), and Before Pictures (2016). He died in July 2019, as reported by ...

Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!

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...

Kathy Zarur

Curator & Educator
Kathy Zarur gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2018.

​Kathy Zarur is a curator and educator based in San Francisco. She has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Center for Asian American Media Film Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Kearny Street Workshop, SOMArts, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, and Museum of the African Diaspora (all in San Francisco). In 2011, she was assistant curator of the Sharjah Biennial. She co-produced artist Wael Shawky’s live installation...

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...

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...

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.

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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,...

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...

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.

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 American Art where he organized exhibitions including “The American Effect," "BitStreams," the 2002...