Visual Arts

Brennan Gerard

Film Director

Brennan Gerard was born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1978. Gerard received a BA in women’s and gender studies from Yale University, New Haven, in 2001. Gerard completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP) in 2010 and received a MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Art in 2013.

Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly began collaborating in 2003 and employ multiple disciplines—performance, video, and installation—to examine questions of collective and individual memory, gender and sexuality, queer...

EJ Hill

Contemporary American Artist

EJ Hill is an artist born, raised, and based in South Central, Los Angeles. Hill’s practice focuses largely on challenging the social aspects and systems that construct a body. He is not only interested in how bodies and subjectivities are formed, understood, and valued within different social and cultural contexts, but also how they redefine the parameters that govern which of them are allowed to exist freely.

Hill received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013 and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. His work has...

Nora Alter

Professor of Theater, Film, and Media Arts

Nora Alter is a professor at Temple University’s School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts. She served as Chair of the Department from 2009-2013. She is founding director of Temple’s Venice Study Abroad Summer Program and is former founding Director of FMA’s Los Angeles Study Away Program. Alter is culturally fluent in European and North American arts and culture. Alter completed her PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the University of Florida. Alter is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The...

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

Joey Enos

ARC Fellow and Sculptor

Joey Enos (b. Berkeley, California, 1981) is a sculptor who started by studding at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. In 2014 he received his MFA degree at the University of California, Berkeley. At his time in Berkeley Enos focused his studies on large-scale artworks, history of Bay Area sculpture, and the profession of art handling. His work has recently been exhibited at Ever Gold Gallery and Alterspace in San Francisco.

Joey was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate...

Anthony Dubovsky

ARC Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley

Anthony Dubovsky's is CED Professor Emeritus of Architecture. His work exhibitions include solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation and Light Gallery (New York), the Yeshiva University Museum (New York), and the Hayden Gallery (MIT); group exhibitions at the United States Embassy in Israel, and the Stephen Rosenberg Gallery (New York). Published in Zyzzyva, Tikkun, and exhibition catalogs of the Jewish Musuem (San Francisco), the Corcoran Gallery (Washington D.C.) and The Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California). His work was also featured in The Surfer's Journal...

Olya Dubatova

Painter, Filmmaker, Installation Artist

Olya Dubatova is a Russian/American artist based in New York, Tbilisi (Georgia), and Yucatan, Mexico. Dubatova’s work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums internationally, including Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum Aldobrandini (Rome) Riddoch Gallery in Mount Gambier, Australia, and the Bookstore Project in Amsterdam. She co-founded and was the director of BlenderLabs at USC (Los Angeles). BlenderLabs was awarded the prestigious Visions and Voices Grant in 2016. Her projects with UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Internet Archive...

Jesse Drew

Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis

Jesse Drew is Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working class. A teenage runaway at age 15, Drew lived in remote wilderness communes as well as inner-city urban communes in New England and California, participating in collective and cooperative projects involving food distribution, community media, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies and grassroots political organizing. Drew...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user interface and artistic installations. Her practice is multifaceted in form and includes...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ conventional attitudes, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latino, and Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, photography, video, and works on paper.

He was born in 1964 in Chicago, IL and was educated at a Catholic school in East Los Angeles, an east-coast prep school in Massachusetts,...