Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator
Janet Delaney gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. Her color photographs of New York City in the 1980s were...

BBB Johannes Deimling

Visual Artist
BBB Johannes Deimling was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

BBB Johannes Deimling, born in 1969 in Andernach, Germany, is a visual artist working in the fields of performance art, video art, art film, drawing, and painting as well as art education.

Deimling has invested a large part of his artistic research in teaching and learning performance art processes since 1997. In 2008 he founded the international art and education project...

Whitney Davis

ARC Fellow and Helen Pardee Professor of History of Art at UC Berkeley
Whitney Davis was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 2001. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK, where he leads the annual York Summer Theory Institute in Art History (YSTI). Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of Art History, Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and a...

Jeff Davis

University Carillonist
Jeff Davis was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.

Jeff Davis, renowned as the University Carillonist at UC Berkeley, retired in 2024 after a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Throughout his tenure, Davis presided over Berkeley's iconic Campanile, home to one of the world's foremost carillons comprising 61 bells. He joined UC Berkeley in 1983, initially supporting the music department with his diverse skills before formally studying under Ronald Barnes, the university's...

Bruce Beasley

Sculptor
Bruce Beasley was a Visiting Artist who participated in a conversation at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 24, 2015.

Bruce Beasley was born in Los Angeles in 1939. A typical hot rod loving teen raised in West Los Angeles, he graduated from University High School then headed for Dartmouth as a Freshman to study rocket engineering. After taking one of the few art classes Dartmouth offered, Beasley knew that his calling was art. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to study sculpture, and while still an undergrad, Beasley’s...

Sharon Daniel

Multimedia Artist, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Sharon Daniel was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally as well as on the internet. Most recently, a solo...

DJ Lamont

DJ, Founder of Fingersnaps Media Arts
DJ Lamont was a Visiting Artist Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Conference at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

DJ Lamont started playing with records when his mother gifted him a “Close N’ Play” record player for his 5th birthday in 1969 and he has been playing with records, cassettes, CD’s, DJ Software, and DJ Controllers ever since.

Established June 1, 2004, in DJ Lamont’s spare bedroom (on 20th & Folsom Street), hundreds of people over the past 15 years of all ages, genders, cultures, and...

Aruna D'Souza

Editor, Writer, Curator
Aruna D'Souza gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 21, 2018.

Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and she is a contributor to The New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Art News, Garage, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, Art in America, ...

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Bojana Cvejić gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center in Feburary 20, 2014.

Bojana Cvejić’s work spans philosophy, performance practice and theory and dance. She studied musicology (BA, MA, University of Arts, Belgrade) and philosophy from which she received a PhD at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. Cvejić has made more than twenty theater and dance performances since 1996 as (co)director (five experimental opera stagings, performances with Jan Ritsema) or dramaturg (in choreographies by among others Xavier Le Roy,...

Seth Curcio

Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery
Seth Curcio was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Seth Curcio, Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery, has served as Senior Director from 2016–2022. During this time, he spearheaded the gallery’s relocation from Venice Beach to its current home at 616 N La Brea Ave in Hollywood, and expanded the gallery’s presence by adding a second exhibition space in the same location in 2020.

Since joining the gallery, Curcio has been pivotal in...