Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Claudia La Rocco

Poet, Critic, and Performer

Claudia La Rocco is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend, 2022); Certain Things (Afternoon Editions, 2022); Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020); petit cadeau (The Chocolate Factory, 2015); and The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited, 2014).

Her prose poem I am trying to do the assignment was published by [2nd floor projects] as a limited-edition chapbook. She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the...

Marci Kwon

Assistant Professor Art History at Stanford University

A scholar of American Art, Marci Kwon's research and teaching interests include the intersection of fine art and vernacular practice, theories of modernism, cultural exchange between Asia and the Americas, critical race theory, and "folk" and "self-taught" art. She is the co-director of the Cantor Arts Center's Asian American Art Initiative. Her book Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2021) explores Cornell’s attempts to figure enchantment—an ephemeral force that exceeds rational explanation—in his box...

SanSan Kwan

Author and Professor in and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley

SanSan Kwan's research interests include dance studies, Asian American studies, and performance studies. Her recent book, Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration (Oxford UP, 2021), is winner of the 2022 de la Torre Bueno© Award. She is also author of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces (Oxford UP, 2013) and co-editor, with Kenneth Speirs, of Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects (University of Texas Press, 2004). Her article on cartographies of race and the Chop Suey circuit, a group of Asian American...

Rachel Kushner

Writer

Rachel Kushner is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels THE MARS ROOM, THE FLAMETHROWERS, and TELEX FROM CUBA, as well as a book of short stories, THE STRANGE CASE OF RACHEL K. Her new book, THE HARD CROWD: ESSAYS 2000-2020 will be published in April 2021. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was twice a finalist...

Tina Kukielski

Director and Chief Curator at Art21

Tina Kukielski joined Art21 after more than thirteen years as a contemporary art curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries. During her time at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2002–2010, she worked to acquire and mount exhibitions by a wide range of celebrated contemporary artists.

As lead...

Pamela & Richard Kramlich

Owners of a Large Private Collection of Media Art

For more than 35 years, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have cultivated one of the most important private collections of media art in the world. Among the first collectors to focus their attention and patronage on “new media” art in the late 1980s, the Kramlichs have provided pioneering support for the preservation, conservation, and presentation of time-based works and helped advanced the inclusion of this work within the broader narrative of modern and contemporary art history.

The Kramlich Collection today encompasses over 200 works of film, video, slide, and...

Koyo Kouoh

Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town

Koyo Kouoh is the Chief Curator and Executive Director of Zeitz MOCAA. Before joining the museum, she founded RAW Material Company in Dakar in 2008 as an institution dedicated to art, knowledge and society. A centre for critical education, an art exhibition space, and home to a creative residency programme, it supports the work of African and international artists and curators in all contemporary art media. In her independent curatorial practice, she has organised meaningful and timely exhibitions, including Personal Liberties, a program of...

Dana Koster

Poet and Photographer

Dana Koster was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Ventura, California. She earned her English degree from UC Berkeley and MFA in poetry from Cornell University. From 2011-2013, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in Modesto, California with her husband and two children, where she works as a wedding photographer, occasional freelance writer and half of the art partnership Broad Sides with her collaborator,...

Ava Koohbor

Poet, Visual, and Sound Artist

Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi-speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. Many of her poems have been appeared in various magazines. Her chapbook, Triangle Squared, a fictional conversation among John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Morton Feldman, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She’s now working with poet Patrick James Dunagan on translating Hafez’s poems from Farsi into English. She appreciates whatever art offers to her in any and all forms. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities...

nunu kong

Choreographer, Performance Artist, and Producer

nunu kong is an independent choreographer, performance artist and producer who graduated from a unique 4-year program (the only comprehensive contemporary dance program ever in China) founded by Yang Mei Qi at the Beijing Dance Academy in 2004. Nunu established her own independent dance project brand nu Dance in 2007 which seeks to shift a common, outdated preoccupation with Chineseness and national culture towards the more honest expression of the human body. With her natural engagement and artistic insight she has produced and performed a great number of vital new...