Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Terrance Hayes

MacArthur Fellow, Poet, and Educator
Terrance Hayes gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 17, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Terrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971, and educated at Coker College where he studied painting and English and was an Academic All-American on the men’s basketball team. After receiving his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, he taught in...

Connie Hatch

Photography, Audio, Installation and Narrative Performance Artist, and Professor of Art at CalArts
Connie Hatch was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Connie Hatch is an artist whose work includes photography, audio, installation and narrative performance. She has exhibited at New Langton Arts, Capp Street, Camerawork and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Her work has been featured at The New Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los...

Joy Harjo

Performer, Writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 22, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling and histories, as well as feminist and social justice poetic traditions, and frequently incorporates indigenous myths, symbols, and values into her writing. Her poetry inhabits...

Trajal Harrell

Dancer and Choreographer
Trajal Harrell gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Trajal Harrell gained international recognition for creating a series of works that bring together the tradition of voguing - a modern dance style developed in the late 1980s from the Harlem ballroom scene - with early postmodern dance. He is considered to be one of the most important choreographers working in contemporary dance today. In his latest work, the artist combines theoretical ideas from...

Hou Hanru

International Art Curator and Critic
Hou Hanru was a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Hou Hanru’s prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity. Hou gained international attention with Cities on the Move (1997-2000), a traveling exhibition he curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which emphasized the ways in...

Ellen Hargis

Soprano specializing in Early Music
Ellen Hargis was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the fête at Fontainebleau Performance at the Arts Research Center on February 20, ~2003. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Soprano Ellen Hargis is one of America’s premier early music singers, specializing in repertoire ranging from ballads to opera and oratorio. She has worked with many of the foremost period music conductors of the world, including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Daniel Harding, Paul Goodwin, John Scott, Monica Huggett, Jane Glover, Nicholas...

Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Interdisciplinary Artist
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a grad­uate of the En’...

Joanna Haigood

Co-founder of Zaccho Dance Theatre
Joanna Haigood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Since 1979 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work...

Cheryl Haines

Principal of Haines Gallery and Founding Executive Director of the FOR-SITE Foundation
Cheryl Haines gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 3, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

For more than 30 years, Cheryl Haines has developed exhibitions and site-specific public programs that have exposed new audiences to contemporary art and advanced the discourse surrounding what she describes as “art about place.” Through the FOR-SITE Foundation and her gallery, Haines presents provocative exhibitions by artists working across a wide range of media, as well as public, site-specific...

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator
Raquel Gutiérrez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Public Art/Housing Publics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by ...