Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Wu Hung

Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago and Professor of Art History

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 Chinese Pictorial Art (1996), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square: the Creation of a Political Space (2005), A Story of Ruins:...

Henriette Huldisch

Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center

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 Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017); and Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke and Fire (2016). From 2010-2014, she worked at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary...

Shih Chieh Huang

Sculpture and Installation Artist

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 an early age, he developed a passion for taking apart household objects and transforming them into something new; through a meticulous...

Yen-Ting Hsu

Sound artist and Composer

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 mediums and artistic disciplines, Hsu creates installations, performances, audio documentaries, electroacoustic music, and more. She also...

Hua Hsu

Staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of English at Bard College

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 Minded, a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation; and...

Guo-Juin Hong

Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University

Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Hong has published articles on such topics as early Shanghai cinema, new Taiwan cinema, documentary film, and queer visual culture. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai was the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Award, Honorable Mention, and his dissertation received the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award, Honorable Mention, both by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Hong teaches courses on film theory and historiography, Chinese-language...

Walter Hood

Principal of Hood Design Studio, Artist, and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley

In Walter Hood's teaching and practice, he is committed to the development of environments which reflect their place and time specifically through how people inhabit various geographies. Our interest in the re-construction of urban landscapes seeks to build palimpsest by developing new elements, spatial forms and objects which validate their existing familiar context. The Studio utilizes ‘research’ in lieu of standardized analytical practices. Project research includes archival and oral histories, physical, environmental and social patterns and practices, to uncover...

Jens Hoffmann

Writer, Editor, Educator, and Exhibition Maker

Jens Hoffmann is a writer, editor, educator, exhibition maker, and art dealer. In 2018 Hoffmann founded the Office for Curatorial Wonders (OCW), an international operating agency for exhibition-making based in New York.

In 2021, Hoffmann opened the gallery Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg in Nice. The same year he founded the publishing company HMW Books.

Over his 20-year career, Hoffmann has organized over four dozen exhibitions, many of...

Megan Hoetger

Performance Researcher, Curator, and Historian

Megan Hoetger is a performance historian, curator, and hard femme. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley where she was mostly hanging out with activists, community organisers, and interdisciplinary circles of folks from dance studies and theatre-making, art practice and art history, geography, critical theory and ethnic studies, comparative literature, architecture and design, urban planning, film and media studies, gender and women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, public health, and law.

During her doctoral work,...

Jack Hirschman

Poet, Social Activist, Former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Founder of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival

Jack Hirschman was born in New York, New York. A proponent of the Beat Generation, he earned degrees from the City College of New York (CCNY) and Indiana University.

A poet and translator, Hirschman is the author of numerous books of poetry including, All That’s Left (City Lights Books, 2008) and The Arcanes (Multimedia, 2006). The former poet laureate of San Francisco and founder of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Hirschman taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He died on August 22, 2021.