Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Gary Kamiya

Author, Journalist and Historian of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

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...

Sean San José

Writer, Director, Performer, and Co-Founder of Campo Santo
Sean San José was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Chavez Ravine Conference and Performances at the Arts Research Center on March 4, 2016.

Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performance group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color centered new audiences and has premiered over 100 new pieces. For 15 years, he was the Program Director of Performance under Deborah Cullinan, alongside Kevin B. Chen & Rebeka...

Eungie Joo

Curator of Contemporary Art at SF MoMA
Eungie Joo was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At SFMOMA, Joo organized the group exhibition Soft Power (2019–2020), which looked at the role of artists as citizens and social actors. Her curatorial projects include, Artistic Director, 5th Anyang Public Art Project, South Korea (2016); co-curator, The Ungovernables,...

Terry Jones

Producer, Screenwriter, and Director
Terry Jones gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 5, 2022.

Haudenosaunee filmmaker Terry Jones is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, who are located in western New York State. Terry has a passion for sharing his Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history and culture through his film works. He strives to find a balance between entertaining and educating his audiences. Terry is currently pursuing his MFA in film ptoduction at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Terry’s short films, many co-directed with Indian filmmaker...

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to intimate drawings, performances and videos. Through his practice he seeks to challenge...

Kurt Johannessen

Artist in Performance, Video, Books, and Installations
Kurt Johannessen was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Born 1960 in Norway, Kurt Johannessen works within performance artist's books video and installations since the early eighties. His work is minimalist and poetic, and at times with a touch of humour. He is his own publisher and has produced more than 50 books, many of them translated into English. The books vary from just one sentence to short stories or just pictures. He has created more than 150 different performances and has...

Adriana Johnson

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine
Adriana Johnson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Adriana Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine. Her first book was Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil (2010). She is finishing Infrastructures of Visuality in Latin America, and planning Thinking Water, about how visual forms in Latin America materialize a knowledge of drought, rivers, rains, and sea.

Ana Janevski

Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at SF MoMA
Ana Janevski was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2024.

Ana Janevski is a curator in the Department of Media and Performance. She has organized more than 30 performances by artists including Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Trajal Harrell, Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Rabih Mroué, among others. She has been involved in the programming of MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, where she curated Nora Turato: pool 5 (2022), Studio...

Sintia Issa

PhD candidate in Visual Studies and Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz
Sintia Issa was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have appeared in the Public Source, a women-led, award-winning, independent journalism...

Malo André Hutson

Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
Malo André Hutson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Malo André Hutson, Ph.D., MCP, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the areas of community development, climate resilience, environmental justice, and urban health. As a scholar, teacher, and practitioner, he focuses on the nexus of environmental, architectural, and urban equity practices. He is the recipient of numerous awards...