Visual Arts

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Artist, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata Sengupta gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is co-founder, along with Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi, of the Raqs Media Collective. Since its inception in 1992, the members of the Collective have worked in a wide range of forms and formats. In their words, “they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces,...

Adrien Segal

Artist, Furniture-Maker, and Sculptor
Adrien Segal gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 30, 2015.

Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007, and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.

In 2022 Adrien was...

Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris)

Photography, Video, Writing, and Installation Artist Duo
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris were the ARC 2018-2019 Artist-in-Residence.

Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) work with photography, video, writing, and installation to examine our changing notions of nature, culture, and ecology. Their work is often place-based and focused on historical research. They were jointly awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.

Their work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the...

Mario Santamaría

Postdigital Artist
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024.

The artistic practice of Mario Santamaría (Burgos, Spain, 1985) studies the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention to two processes, the representational practices and the machines vision or mediation. Using different tactics such as appropiation, remake or assembly, his work involves different fields like the conflict, the memory, the virtuality or the surveillance. He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2015),...

Alex Saum-Pascual

ARC Fellow, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley
Alex Saum-Pascual was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Revista...

Martha Rosler

Conceptual Artist
Martha Rosler was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012.

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women.

Rosler has for many years produced works on war and the national security climate, connecting life at home with the conduct of war abroad, in which her photomontage series...

Cara Romero

Contemporary Fine Art Photographer
Cara Romero gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2023.

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective...

Marina Romani

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Writer and Artist, Translator, and Professor at UC Berkeley
Marina Romani was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Marina Romani (she/they) is a multimedia writer and artist, editor, translator, educator, and performer of Western classical music and Afro-Caribbean music. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. She is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley, teaching upper-division courses in sociology of culture and cross-cultural communications.

Marina taught courses on language, cinema, literature,...

Favianna Rodriguez

Interdisciplinary Artist, Cultural Strategist, and Social Justice Activist
Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 15, 2023.

Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and entrepreneur based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her work centers joy and healing, while challenging entrenched myths and dominant cultural practices. Favianna's creative partnerships include companies like Ben & Jerry's, Spotify, Old Navy, and Playboy Magazine. She...

Dario Robleto

Transdisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Writer, and Teacher
Dario Robleto was the ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence. Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (2024); the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2024); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and...