Curatorial

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...

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator
Raquel Gutiérrez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Public Art/Housing Publics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and...

Talinn Grigor

Professor of Art History Modern, Contemporary Global Architecture, and Art Critical and (post)Colonial Theory at UC Davis
Talinn Grigor gave a Visiting Lecture Presentation at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Talinn Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include a winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (Penn State Univ., 2021); Contemporary Iranian Art: From the...

Benjamin Grant

City Planner, Urban Designer, Curator, Teacher
Benjamin Grant was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Benjamin Grant is a city planner, urban designer, curator and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent over a decade at SPUR, the urban policy research organization, where he served as Urban Design Policy Director, leading research on physical planning, public space and urban design.

He is the author of numerous reports and studies on subjects that include retrofitting suburbs for walkability, the innovation-sector workplace, accommodating regional...

Rita Gonzalez

Curator, Author, Media Artist, Head of the Contemporary Art Department at LACMA
Rita Gonzalez was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Rita Gonzalez is the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she has curated Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement; Asco: Elite of the Obscure; Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection; Agnés Varda in Californialand,...

Mark Godfrey

Art Historian, Critic, Former Curator at Tate Modern
Mark Godfrey gave a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2019.

Mark Godfrey is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2007 to 2021 he was senior curator of international art at Tate Modern, London, where he curated and co-curated retrospectives of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Alighiero Boetti, Franz West, and others, as well as the acclaimed exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. He is currently working on projects with Anicka Yi, Laura Owens, and Jacqueline Humphries.

Deborah Fisher

Executive Director at A Blade of Grass
Deborah Fisher was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Deborah Fisher is the founding Executive Director of A Blade of Grass, and a strategic and philanthropic advisor to Shelley and Donald Rubin. She also currently serves on the board of the Center for Artistic Activism.

Fisher is a practicing artist and creative leader working to expand the roles art and artists play within communities. She has worked in many capacities at the intersection of art and civic life in New York City, including as studio manager at...

Lori Fogarty

Director & CEO of the Oakland Museum of California
Lori Fogarty was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Lori Fogarty is the Director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California, a multidisciplinary museum that brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people. Since 2006, Lori has worked to oversee and guide all Museum programmatic and administrative operations and has transitioned OMCA from a public/private cultural institution supported by the City of Oakland and...