Visual Arts

Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture

February 27, 2020
Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
With Horace Ballard In conversation with Justin Underhill Thursday, February 27 | 5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A | Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Berkeley Center for New Media

A photograph is many things. It is a relationship, an index, a text, a betrayal. It is a contract. It is a sustainable fragility. It is a political act of community-making. It is a matrix of entangled signs and...

Artist Talk with Dario Robleto

March 15, 2022
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, March 15th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall Watch the recording here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory

Dario Robleto is an artist, researcher, writer, and...

Artist Talk with Jeffrey Gibson

January 25, 2022
Artist Talk with Jeffrey Gibson in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, January 25th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST Watch the recording here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson merging traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to...

Sierra Edd

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Sierra Edd was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Sierra Edd (she / her) is a Diné writer and artist who grew up in Durango, Colorado. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people. She is currently an Ethnic Studies doctoral student and resides in Ohlone Territory. Her research examines the political significance of listening, creating, and connecting through Indigenous music across various U.S. contexts. Recently, she has been collaborating and working on zine projects...

Dr. Ines Hernandez-Avila

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Professor Hernandez-Avila was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Professor Hernandez-Avila is Niimiipuu/Nez Perce, of Chief Joseph’s band, enrolled on the Colville Reservation, Washington, on her mother’s side, and Tejana (and Mexican Indigenous) on her father’s side. A scholar, poet, and visual artist, her research and teaching focus on contemporary Indigenous literature of the Americas, and Indigenous religious traditions. She is a Ford...

Beatriz da Costa

Interdisciplinary Artist, Tactical Media Practitioner
Beatriz da Costa was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Continuous Bodies Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2007.

Beatriz da Costa (1974 – 2012) was an interdisciplinary artist and tactical media practitioner working at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. Her work takes the form of public participatory interventions, locative media, conceptual tool building, and critical writing. Issues addressed in her work include the use of emergent technologies to investigate context-specific configurations of...

Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!

Bonnie Begusch

2009 ARC Fellow
Bonnie Begusch was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Bonnie Begusch (b. 1981 in Oakland, USA) works primarily with time-based media and text. After studying Media Art and Literature at UCLA, she received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been screened and exhibited at numerous venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Berkeley Art Museum; Sterling Music Room, New York; SF Film Society, San Francisco; KARST, Plymouth; RUA RED, Dublin; Exile,...

Kim Anno

Painter, Photographer, Film/Video Artist, and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Program at CCA
Kim Anno was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the "ART/CITY" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2012.

Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video artist whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums nationally and internationally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno has had exhibitions and screenings at the University of Suffolk, England, 14th Annual New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea, Kala Art Institute,Berkeley, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg, the Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa in the "Don't Panic Exhibition", Flux Projects, Atlanta...

Kathy Zarur

Curator & Educator
Kathy Zarur gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2018.

​Kathy Zarur is a curator and educator based in San Francisco. She has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Center for Asian American Media Film Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Kearny Street Workshop, SOMArts, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, and Museum of the African Diaspora (all in San Francisco). In 2011, she was assistant curator of the Sharjah Biennial. She co-produced artist Wael Shawky’s live installation...