Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Nadia Yala Kisukidi

Philosopher, Writer, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University

Nadia Yala Kisukidi is Associate Professor in philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University. She was Vice President of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014–2016). Member of the Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, Ehess) editorial committee, she was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa, DRC (July/August 2022). Kisukidi is specialized in French and Africana philosophy. She has published Bergson ou l’humanité créatrice (CNRS, 2013), and Dialogue Transatlantique with the Brazilian philosopher Djamila...

Karen Kipphoff

Artist and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy

Karen Kipphoff has been employed as a professor at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) at Østfold University College since 2012 (60% position). From 1999 to 2011, she held the position of professor in visual arts with a focus on installation and performance (100%) at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. Kipphoff is currently the program coordinator for Master in Scenography at the NTA (HiØ).

Kipphoff is an artist educated in visual arts, cabinetmaking, puppetry, and theatre pedagogy. Karen worked at the Hamburger Kammerspiele, Schaubühne am Lehniner...

Grant Kester

Professor of Art History at UC San Diego

Grant Kester is Professor of Art History and the founding editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism (field-journal.com). Kester is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice. His publications include Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (Duke University Press, 1998), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (University of...

Kristan Kennedy

Artist, Educator, and Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

Kristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator. Kennedy the Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). For the last decade, Kennedy has focused on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations and solo projects that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy takes an expansive view of visual art and also organizes music, performance art, publications, social engagement and new media projects as part of PICA’s year-round...

Michael Kelly

Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte

Michael Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy specializing in aesthetics in combination with critical theory, political theory, and ethics. He is author of A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art (Columbia University Press, 2012; paperback 2017) and Iconoclasm in Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and he’s Editor-in Chief of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2014, 2nd edition). Kelly is also the Founder and President of the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, which has organized nine Questioning Aesthetics...

Jeff Kelley

Art Critic, Author, and Curator

Jeff Kelley is an art critic, author, and curator. A practicing art critic since 1977, his reviews and essays about artists including Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times.

In 1993 the University of California Press published Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, a collection of significant writings by American conceptual artist Allan Kaprowedited by Kelley. He is also the author of Childsplay: the Art of Allan Kaprow, published in 2004 by UC Press.

Kelley lives in...

Asma Kazmi

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art at UC Berkeley

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Combining visual and textual detritus from western and non-western historical manuscripts, photographs, archival material, fragments of locations, and mixing them with her own fabulations, Kazmi tells intertwining stories...

Leandro Katz

Writer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker

Born in Argentina, Leandro Katz arrived in New York in 1965. As a poet, translator, Conceptual artist, and professor, Katz participated in experimental literary movements in Buenos Aires, Quito, Lima, and New York. Coming to the end of a winding path through South and Central America, in New York he found a thriving community of avant-garde artists and activists. He made the city his home for over 40 years.

During his travels in the summer of 1963, Katz had encountered the monumental ruins of the ancient Maya in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. The...

Gary Kamiya

Author, Journalist and Historian of San Francisco

Gary Kamiya was born in Oakland, grew up in Berkeley and have lived in San Francisco since 1971. He received my BA and MA in English literature from UC Berkeley, where he won the Mark Schorer Citation. Kamiya was a co-founder and longtime executive editor of the groundbreaking web site Salon.com, where he reported from the Middle East, covered three Olympics, and wrote about politics, pop culture, literature, art, music and sports. Until March 2018 he was the executive editor of San Francisco Magazine, where he wrote award-winning features about the tech-...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Spoken Word Artist, Writer, Librettist, and Cultural Strategist

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi is the co-creator of the paradigm-shifting allyship training...