Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

nunu kong

Choreographer, Performance Artist, and Producer
nunu kong was a Visiting Artist 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.

nunu kong is an independent choreographer, performance artist and producer who graduated from a unique 4-year program (the only comprehensive contemporary dance program ever in China) founded by Yang Mei Qi at the Beijing Dance Academy in 2004. Nunu established her own independent dance project brand nu Dance in 2007 which seeks to shift a common, outdated...

Nadia Yala Kisukidi

Philosopher, Writer, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University
Nadia Yala Kisukidi gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on May 6, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Nadia Yala Kisukidi is Associate Professor in philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University. She was Vice President of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014–2016). Member of the Les Cahiers d’études africaines...

Karen Kipphoff

Artist and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy
Karen Kipphoff was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Karen Kipphoff has been employed as a professor at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) at Østfold University College since 2012 (60% position). From 1999 to 2011, she held the position of professor in visual arts with a focus on installation and performance (100%) at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. Kipphoff is currently the program coordinator...

Grant Kester

Professor of Art History at UC San Diego
Grant Kester was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Grant Kester is Professor of Art History and the founding editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism (field-journal.com). Kester is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice. His...

Kristan Kennedy

Artist, Educator, and Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Kristan Kennedy was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium: Panel Discussion at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator. Kennedy the Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). For the last decade, Kennedy has focused on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations...

Michael Kelly

Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte
Michael Kelly was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Michael Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy specializing in aesthetics in combination with critical theory, political theory, and ethics. He is author of A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art (Columbia University Press, 2012; paperback 2017) and Iconoclasm in Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and he’s Editor-in Chief of the...

Julia Keefe

Vocalist, Actor, Activist, and Educator
Julia Keefe gave an Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 18, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 20 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award...

Kealoha

Hawaiʻi's First Poet Laureate Emeritus
Kealoha gave a Visiting Writer Talk and Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kealoha is Hawaiʻi's first Poet Laureate Emeritus. As an internationally acclaimed poet and storyteller, he has performed throughout the world -- from the White House to the ʻIolani Palace, from Brazil to Switzerland. He is the first poet in Hawaiʻi's history to perform at a governor's inauguration, was selected as a master artist for a National Endowment...

Leandro Katz

Writer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Leandro Katz was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Spiraling Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in Argentina, Leandro Katz arrived in New York in 1965. As a poet, translator, Conceptual artist, and professor, Katz participated in experimental literary movements in Buenos Aires, Quito, Lima, and New York. Coming to the end of a winding path through South and Central America, in New York he found a thriving community of avant-garde artists and...

Asma Kazmi

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art at UC Berkeley
Asma Kazmi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Combining visual and textual detritus from western...