Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Pedro J. Rolón

Ph.D. Candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley
Pedro J. Rolón was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Pedro J. Rolón (B.A. in Literature, Yale University, 2014) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Comparative Literature department and the program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. He is interested in post-colonial theory, the history of the senses, poetics, and the relationship between aesthetic experiences and the epistemological fields opened up by poetic, visual and auditory experiments. Recently, he has been reading poetry and other...

Favianna Rodriguez

Interdisciplinary Artist, Cultural Strategist, and Social Justice Activist
Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 15, 2023.

Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and entrepreneur based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her work centers joy and healing, while challenging entrenched myths and dominant cultural practices. Favianna's creative partnerships include companies like Ben & Jerry's, Spotify, Old Navy, and Playboy Magazine. She...

Dario Robleto

Transdisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Writer, and Teacher
Dario Robleto was the ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence. Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (2024); the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2024); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and...

Tony Robles

Poet, Historian, and Social Justice Activist
Tony Robles gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Tony Robles, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018. His two books of poetry and short stories, Cool Don’t Live Here No More - A letter to San Francisco ...

T. Carlis Roberts

Artist, Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music at University of Denver
T. Carlis Roberts was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the ARC Salon Series Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015.

T. Carlis Roberts (he/him) is an artist and scholar who engages sound as a tool for liberation. His professional work has straddled theater, music, film, television, dance, and performance art — each project driven by the desire to disrupt colonial structures and develop new vocabularies for expression. As a composer, sound designer, and...

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...

Atsuro Riley

Poet
Atsuro Riley gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Atsuro Riley is the author of the poetry collections Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010). In 2023 Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Heard-Hoard was the winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a...

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz
Laura Richard was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art,...

Barbara Jane Reyes

Poet, Author, Co-Editor of Doveglion Press, and Adjunct Professor at USF’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program
Barbara Jane Reyes gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in May 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, the Philippines, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. She earned a BA in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is the author of the poetry collections Letters to a Young Brown Girl (2020), Invocation to Daughters (2017), Diwata (2010), Poeta en San Francisco (2005), winner of the James...

Charles Renfro

Architect and Partner at the Diller Scofidio + Renfro Firm
Charles Renfro gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 27, 2016.

Charles Renfro was born in Baytown Texas in 1964. He is a practicing architect and has been based in New York City since 1989. He joined Diller + Scofidio in 1997 and was promoted to partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 2004. DS+R is an interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts while investigating issues of contemporary culture such as the spatial conventions of the everyday, the influence of media technologies on...