Curatorial

Jeff Kelley

Art Critic, Author, and Curator
Jeff Kelley was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014.

Jeff Kelley is an art critic, author, and curator. A practicing art critic since 1977, his reviews and essays about artists including Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times.

In 1993 the University of California Press published Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, a collection of significant writings by American conceptual artist Allan...

Eungie Joo

Curator of Contemporary Art at SF MoMA
Eungie Joo was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At SFMOMA, Joo organized the group exhibition Soft Power (2019–2020), which looked at the role of artists as citizens and social actors. Her curatorial projects include, Artistic Director, 5th Anyang Public Art Project, South Korea (2016); co-curator, The Ungovernables,...

Ana Janevski

Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at SF MoMA
Ana Janevski was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2024.

Ana Janevski is a curator in the Department of Media and Performance. She has organized more than 30 performances by artists including Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Trajal Harrell, Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Rabih Mroué, among others. She has been involved in the programming of MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, where she curated Nora Turato: pool 5 (2022), Studio...

Henriette Huldisch

Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center
Henriette Huldisch was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Henriette Huldisch is currently Chief Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Previously, she was Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she organized exhibitions such as Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse (2019), Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 (2018); An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of...

Jens Hoffmann

Writer, Editor, Educator, and Exhibition Maker
Jens Hoffmann gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 21, 2012.

Jens Hoffmann is a writer, editor, educator, exhibition maker, and art dealer. In 2018 Hoffmann founded the Office for Curatorial Wonders (OCW), an international operating agency for exhibition-making based in New York.

In 2021, Hoffmann opened the gallery Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg in Nice. The same year he founded the publishing company HMW Books. ...

Plinio Hernandez

Founder of Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
Plinio Hernandez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the ART/CITY Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2012.

Plinio Hernandez is a graduate from UC Berkeley were he received his MFA in Art Practice, he also has a BFA in photography from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. While at UC Berkeley Plinio focused on his studio practice but also became interested in how contemporary social media tools affect politics, education and identity. At UCB he taught classes both in the New Media Department as well as Art Practice Department....

David Henry

Former Director of Performing and Media Arts at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
David Henry was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.

David Henry has an M.F.A. from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and has been making images for over 50 years. Henry has a 40 year career working in art museums. 30 of those years were as an educator, programmer and curator at the Walker Art Center, the RISD Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Between 2009 and 2018 he served as the Bill T. Jones Director of Performing and Media Arts at the...

Pablo Helguera

Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Socially Engaged Art and Performance Artist, and Professor of Performing Arts at The New School
Pablo Helguera gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work incorporates pedagogy, sociology and theater and literary strategies. His project, “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between and covering almost 20,000 miles, it is...

Hou Hanru

International Art Curator and Critic
Hou Hanru was a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Hou Hanru’s prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity. Hou gained international attention with Cities on the Move (1997-2000), a traveling exhibition he curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which emphasized the ways in which Asian contemporary artists have dealt with rapid changes in urban lifestyles...

Cheryl Haines

Principal of Haines Gallery and Founding Executive Director of the FOR-SITE Foundation
Cheryl Haines gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 3, 2014.

For more than 30 years, Cheryl Haines has developed exhibitions and site-specific public programs that have exposed new audiences to contemporary art and advanced the discourse surrounding what she describes as “art about place.” Through the FOR-SITE Foundation and her gallery, Haines presents provocative exhibitions by artists working across a wide range of media, as well as public, site-specific commissions on a national scale.

In 2003, Ms. Haines established the FOR-SITE...