Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Yi Gu

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at University of Toronto
Yi Gu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Yi Gu is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on Asia, especially China. Her current research interests lie in the agrarian imaginary and various extractive regimes including those of historical socialism. Her previous work examines epistemic shifts and perception, landscape and nation-building, and Chinese...

Silvia Gruner

Multimedia Artist
Silvia Gruner gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Working in diverse media, Mexico City based Silvia Gruner (born 1959) examines the body as a depository of memory and various cultural traditions. Often using her own body, Gruner explores multiple readings of the female body as it has traditionally been used to define spiritual, sexual, and national identity. Her work has additionally involved the symbolic reinterpretation of everyday domestic...

Talinn Grigor

Professor of Art History Modern, Contemporary Global Architecture, and Art Critical and (post)Colonial Theory at UC Davis
Talinn Grigor gave a Visiting Lecture Presentation at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Talinn Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include a winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi...

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford
Mark Greif gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts,...

Susan Greene

Interdisciplinary Artist, Clinical Psychologist
Susan Greene was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the From the Local to the Global Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susan Greene is the director of US based Art Forces. She is an interdisciplinary artist and clinical psychologist. Her practice traverses cultural arenas including video, new media, public art and murals. Greene’s work focuses on the psychologies of space, intersections of trauma, creativity, memory, resilience and resistance....

Terra Graziani

Researcher, Tenant Organizer
Terra Graziani was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenant organizer whose work focuses on property and personhood. She helps run the ...

John Granzow

Chair of Performing Arts Technology & Associate Professor of Music at University of Michigan
John Granzow was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

John Granzow applies the latest manufacturing methods to both scientific and musical instrument design. After completing a masters of science in psychoacoustics, he attended Stanford University for his PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics. Granzow started and instructed the 3d Printing for Acoustics workshop at the Centre for Computer Research in...

Benjamin Grant

City Planner, Urban Designer, Curator, Teacher
Benjamin Grant was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Benjamin Grant is a city planner, urban designer, curator and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent over a decade at SPUR, the urban policy research organization, where he served as Urban Design Policy Director, leading research on physical planning, public space and urban design.

He is the author of numerous reports and studies on subjects that include retrofitting...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Philip Kan Gotanda was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia...

Joe Goode

2012 ARC Fellow
Joe Goode was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Joe Goode is a Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum, Capp Street Project, and The Fowler Museum...