Curatorial

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...

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...