Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Rita Gonzalez

Curator, Author, Media Artist, Head of the Contemporary Art Department at LACMA
Rita Gonzalez was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Rita Gonzalez is the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she has curated Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement; Asco: Elite of the Obscure; Lost Line: Contemporary Art from...

Mark Godfrey

Art Historian, Critic, Former Curator at Tate Modern
Mark Godfrey gave a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mark Godfrey is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2007 to 2021 he was senior curator of international art at Tate Modern, London, where he curated and co-curated retrospectives of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Alighiero Boetti, Franz West, and others, as well as the acclaimed exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. He is...

Ceinwen Gobert

Multidiscliplinary Artist
Ceinwen Gobert was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in November 2023, participating in a cyclical series of dance rehearsals alongside of Tanya Lukin Linklater. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ceinwen Gobert was raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and later graduated with distinction from the collaborative BA program at the University of Calgary and the School of Alberta Ballet. She is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist and has had the pleasure of interpreting works for a number of...

Philip Glass

Pianist, Composer
Philip Glass was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen to...

Aracelis Girmay

Poet, Professor of English at Stanford University
Aracelis Girmay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies.

In her 2011 online chat interview with the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, Girmay discussed innovative and hybrid poetric forms, stating...

David Gilbert

Environmental Anthropologist
David Gilbert was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Gilbert is an environmental anthropologist with a special interest in social movements, ecological change, and post-development theory.

David has published on topics ranging from critiques of capitalism to explorations of communities-in-mobilization as their landscapes and climates change.

His book with University of California Press...

Jeffrey Gibson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Jeffrey Gibson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2022. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He...

Jacopo Galimberti

Art Historian, Assistant Professor at Università Iuav di Venezia
Jacopo Galimberti gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 4, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jacopo Galimberti is an art historian and Assistant Professor at IUAV (Venice). He is the author of Individuals Against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969) (Liverpool) and Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988) (Verso), which historicizes those political currents and movements alongside visual...

Ross Gay

Poet, Essayist
Ross Gay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 17, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude...

Malik Gaines

Associate Professor at NYU Tisch
Malik Gaines was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Malik Gaines is a writer and artist involved with performances.

His articles have appeared in Women & Performance and Art Journal, and in magazines including Artforum. Gaines has written many essays for museum books, about artists including the Judson Dance Theater, Lorraine...