Curatorial

Fabián Leyva-Barragán

ARC Fellow and Curatorial Fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center
Fabián Leyva-Barragán was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Undergraduate category.

Fabián Leyva-Barragán is a curatorial fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center. Among his curatorial duties, he coordinated the Walker’s presentation of Adi’s Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 along with Olga Viso, following the exhibition’s previous showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before the Walker, Fabián was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA,...

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.

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. In 1996 she curated Jay DeFeo: Selected Works 1952-1989 for Moore...

Anneka Lenssen

2019 ARC Fellow
Anneka Lenssen was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Anneka Lenssen specializes in modern painting and contemporary visual practices, with a focus on the cultural politics of the Middle East. Her research examines problems of artistic representation in relation to the globalizing imaginaries of empire, nationalism, communism, decolonization, and Third World humanism.

She is the author of Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (UC Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Syrian Studies Association Best Book...

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.

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 ...

Conference – The Archive and Its Forms in the Americas

January 23, 2025
El archivo y sus formas en las Américas 23 y 24 de enero, 2025 Locacion: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center

La conferencia será en español, ingles, y portugues. No habrá traducción.
The conference will be in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will not be interpretation.

Copatrocinadores

Organizado por Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley) y Adriana Amante (...

Zena Kruzick

ARC Fellow, Tribal Art Collector and Dealer
Zena Kruzick was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Zena Kruzick has been involved with tribal art for 40 years as aficionado, collector and now, for the last 20 years, as a dealer. Her passion for the art grew steadily during her years spent designing swimwear, selling wine, traveling the world and letting myriad forks in the road broaden her horizons.

In her twenties, a chance encounter with Northwest coast art sparked her fascination with the transformative power of masks. This resulted in her guest...

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.

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 time at the ...

Pamela & Richard Kramlich

Owners of a Large Private Collection of Media Art
Pamela and Richard Kramlich gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 6, 2017.

For more than 35 years, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have cultivated one of the most important private collections of media art in the world. Among the first collectors to focus their attention and patronage on “new media” art in the late 1980s, the Kramlichs have provided pioneering support for the preservation, conservation, and presentation of time-based works and helped advanced the inclusion of this work within the broader narrative of modern and contemporary...

Koyo Kouoh

Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
Koyo Kouoh was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Koyo Kouoh is the Chief Curator and Executive Director of Zeitz MOCAA. Before joining the museum, she founded RAW Material Company in Dakar in 2008 as an institution dedicated to art, knowledge and society. A centre for critical education, an art exhibition space, and home to a creative residency programme, it supports the work of African and international artists and curators in all contemporary art media. In her independent curatorial...

Kristan Kennedy

Artist, Educator, and Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Kristan Kennedy was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium: Panel Discussion at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

Kristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator. Kennedy the Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). For the last decade, Kennedy has focused on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations and solo projects that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy takes an expansive...