Visual Arts

Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA
Ted Purves was a Visiting Artist 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.

Ted Purves was an independent artist, editor, and curator. His work has been exhibited and published in many venues and journals throughout California, as well as in New York, Boston, Albany and several cities in Germany. Purves has won funding from the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts and been an artist-in-...

Devi Peacock

Founder and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion
Devi Peacock gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd Ave. cultural land trust in Oakland. They additionally...

Trevor Paglen

Artist, Geographer, and Author
Trevor Paglen gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Trevor Paglen lives and works in New York, NY. As an artist, filmmaker, investigator, technologist, and theorist, Paglen asks questions around vision, perception, materiality, and aesthetics. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes work on artificial intelligence and computer vision, aerospace technology, secrecy and conspiracy, experimental landscapes, speculative fiction, nuclear histories, notional...

Shari Paladino

ARC Fellow, Artist, Designer, and Educator
Shari Paladino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shari Paladino is an artist, designer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has exhibited work at the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Richmond Art Center. She attended University of California, Berkeley, earning her bachelor’s degree in art education and disability studies, as well as a master’s degree in fine arts. Shari developed curriculum for...

Julian Oliver

Critical Engineer, Educator, Artist, and Activist
Julian Oliver gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Julian Oliver is a Critical Engineer, educator, artist, and activist. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums, festivals and galleries worldwide, among them Transmediale, Ars Electronica, the Vienna Biennale, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Lectures related to his work and ideas have been presented at many conferences and universites internationally,...

Greg Niemeyer

ARC Fellow, Data Artist, Co-Founder of BCNM, Professor of Media Innovation, an Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Greg Niemeyer was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 and 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He's the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.

He received his MFA from Stanford University in New Genres in...

Matthew Mullins

ARC Fellow and Painter
Matthew Mullins was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Matthew Mullins earned his master’s in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Department Distinctions. While at UC Berkeley, he received the prestigious Eisner Prize for Visual Art and was named as a Fellow of the Arts Research Center. He taught Painting, Drawing, and Introduction to Visual Thinking at UC Berkeley and also worked as a professional artist before...

Hendl Helen Mirra

Conceptual Artist
Hendl Helen Mirra was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2003-2004. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Hendl Helen Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970 and lives in West Marin, California. Major solo exhibitions include Rochechouart Museum (2022); Museo de Arte Zapopan, Jalisco (2020); Berkeley Art Museum (2019); The Aspen Art Museum (2015); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2012); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Bonner Kunstverein (both 2011); Dallas Museum of Art (2004); Whitney Museum...

Trịnh Thị Minh Hà

Filmmaker, Writer, Literary Theorist, Composer, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Trịnh Thị Minh Hà was a Affiliated Faculty Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trịnh Thị Minh Hà is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women’s work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory...

Jill Miller

Assistant Professor of Art Practice at UC Berkeley, Founding Director of Platform Artspace
Jill Miller was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jill Miller is a visual artist who works across a wide range of media, from video installations to public practices, and many hybrids in between. She often collaborates with individuals and local communities in the form of public interventions, workshops, and participatory community projects. Her work is playful, and she uses humor as a strategy for opening up...