Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Adriana Johnson

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine
Adriana Johnson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Adriana Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine. Her first book was Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil (2010). She is finishing Infrastructures of Visuality in Latin America, and planning Thinking Water, about how visual forms in Latin America materialize a knowledge of drought, rivers, rains, and sea.

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...

Sintia Issa

PhD candidate in Visual Studies and Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz
Sintia Issa was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have appeared in the Public Source, a women-led, award-winning, independent journalism...

Malo André Hutson

Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
Malo André Hutson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Malo André Hutson, Ph.D., MCP, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the areas of community development, climate resilience, environmental justice, and urban health. As a scholar, teacher, and practitioner, he focuses on the nexus of environmental, architectural, and urban equity practices. He is the recipient of numerous awards...

Wu Hung

Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago and Professor of Art History
Wu Hung was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation of...

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...

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.