Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Shih Chieh Huang

Sculpture and Installation Artist
Shih Chieh Huang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Shih Chieh Huang was born in 1975 in Taiwan and lives and works in New York. Fascinated with science and biology, his work is characterized by playful installations composed of everyday objects that are transformed into ethereal sculptures, conjuring up magical realms. He received his BFA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001. From...

Yen-Ting Hsu

Sound artist and Composer
Yenting Hsu was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art...

Hua Hsu

Staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of English at Bard College
Hua Hsu gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 17, 2016.

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (2016) and the memoir Stay True (September 2022). He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impostor Syndrome. Hsu is a contributor to CBS News’s Sunday Morning; serves on the governance board of Critical...

John Horn

Former Los Angeles Times staff writer and Former Host of "The Frame"
John Horn was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Radio, Podcast, and Contemporary Cultural Criticism Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2017.

John Horn was host of KPCC’s The Frame, a daily arts and entertainment program. He has covered culture for nearly 30 years, including serving for over a decade at the Los Angeles Times as lead writer on the film industry. Today, he is a correspondent for NPR’s 1A.

Walter Hood

Principal of Hood Design Studio, Artist, and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley
Walter Hood was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017.

In Walter Hood's teaching and practice, he is committed to the development of environments which reflect their place and time specifically through how people inhabit various geographies. Our interest in the re-construction of urban landscapes seeks to build palimpsest by developing new elements, spatial forms and objects which validate their existing familiar context. The Studio utilizes ‘research’ in lieu of standardized analytical practices...

Guo-Juin Hong

Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University
Guo-Juin Hong was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Hong has published articles on such topics as early Shanghai cinema, new Taiwan cinema, documentary film, and queer visual culture. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai was the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Award, Honorable Mention, and his dissertation received the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award,...

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. ...

Megan Hoetger

Performance Researcher, Curator, and Historian
Megan Hoetger gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016.

Megan Hoetger is a performance historian, curator, and hard femme. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley where she was mostly hanging out with activists, community organisers, and interdisciplinary circles of folks from dance studies and theatre-making, art practice and art history, geography, critical theory and ethnic studies, comparative literature, architecture and design, urban planning, film and media studies, gender and women’s...

Jack Hirschman

Poet, Social Activist, Former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Founder of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival
Jack Hirschman gave a Visiting Writer Reading and Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 8, 2017.

Jack Hirschman was born in New York, New York. A proponent of the Beat Generation, he earned degrees from the City College of New York (CCNY) and Indiana University.

A poet and translator, Hirschman is the author of numerous books of poetry including, All That’s Left (City Lights Books, 2008) and The Arcanes (Multimedia, 2006). The former poet laureate of San Francisco and founder of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Hirschman...

Dee Hibbert-Jones

Filmmaker, Animator, Artist, and Professor of Art & Digital Arts New Media at UC Santa Cruz
Dee Hibbert-Jones was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Dee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy® award winning filmmaker and internationally recognized artist. Her work incorporates animation, installation, public art and documentary film examining power and politics: how people manage and who gets heard. She explores diverse subjects from land use and wasted resources, to criminal justice and indigent rights: examining what is considered valuable and who is dismissed...