Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

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...

Joanna Haigood

Co-founder of Zaccho Dance Theatre
Joanna Haigood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014.

Since 1979 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets,...

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...

Yi Gu

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at University of Toronto
Yi Gu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014.

Yi Gu is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on Asia, especially China. Her current research interests lie in the agrarian imaginary and various extractive regimes including those of historical socialism. Her previous work examines epistemic shifts and perception, landscape and nation-building, and Chinese photography. Her book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting...

Silvia Gruner

Multimedia Artist
Silvia Gruner gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019.

Working in diverse media, Mexico City based Silvia Gruner (born 1959) examines the body as a depository of memory and various cultural traditions. Often using her own body, Gruner explores multiple readings of the female body as it has traditionally been used to define spiritual, sexual, and national identity. Her work has additionally involved the symbolic reinterpretation of everyday domestic and work objects, transforming the quotidian into fetishistic objects of cult or magic...

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...

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford
Mark Greif gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2017.

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming...

Susan Greene

Interdisciplinary Artist, Clinical Psychologist
Susan Greene was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the From the Local to the Global Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014.

Susan Greene is the director of US based Art Forces. She is an interdisciplinary artist and clinical psychologist. Her practice traverses cultural arenas including video, new media, public art and murals. Greene’s work focuses on the psychologies of space, intersections of trauma, creativity, memory, resilience and resistance. Specifically, she is concerned with the ways in which architecture and tourism reinforce and...

Terra Graziani

Researcher, Tenant Organizer
Terra Graziani was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenant organizer whose work focuses on property and personhood. She helps run the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective...

John Granzow

Chair of Performing Arts Technology & Associate Professor of Music at University of Michigan
John Granzow was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.

John Granzow applies the latest manufacturing methods to both scientific and musical instrument design. After completing a masters of science in psychoacoustics, he attended Stanford University for his PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics. Granzow started and instructed the 3d Printing for Acoustics workshop at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He attended residencies at the Banff Centre and the Cité...