Visual Arts

Susan Meiselas

Documentary Photographer and President of the Magnum Foundation
Susan Meiselas gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 10, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers(1976), Nicaragua...

José Carlos Martinat

José Carlos Martinat gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 6, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

José Carlos Martinat lives and works in Lima, Peru. Martinat’s projects are characterized by exploring a relationship with the context in which it is presented, on a social, cultural or political level, in order to achieve a real and direct communication between the viewer, the work and the space. Martinat works within a multidisciplinary practice utilizing sculpture, robotics,...

Ajuan Mance

Visual Artist, Author, Editor, and a Professor of Ethnic Studies and English at Mills College
Ajuan Mance gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 24, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they...

Wendy MacNaughton

Illustrator and Graphic Journalist
Wendy MacNaughton gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. MacNaughton has published eleven books, including three New York Times best-sellers. MacNaughton's work combines illustration, journalism, and social work to tell the stories of overlooked people and places. Her art has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Juxtapoz, GOOD, Time Out NY, 7x7, and Gizmodo. She has...

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Multidisciplinary Artist
Cannupa Hanska Luger gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social...

Maya Lin

Architect, Designer, and Sculptor
Maya Lin gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works and her memorial designs. Her unique multi-disciplinary career has “resisted categories, boundaries and borders” (Michael Brenson). In her book Boundaries, she writes I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work...

2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick Lowe

The Arts Research Center 2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick Lowe November 17-November 24, 2014 If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

The Arts Research Center is delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist, community organizer, and 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Rick Lowe.

Simon Leung

Professor of Art at UC Irvine
Simon Leung was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Making Time at Human Resources Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Simon Leung’s foremost concern as an artist is how “the ethical,” broadly defined, can be thought and traced. His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on “the residual space of the American/Vietnam War” (comprising works on the squatting body...

Việt Lê

Artist, Writer, Chair of Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program and an Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts
Việt Lê gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator whose work over the past twenty years examines spiritualities, trauma, representation and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas, as well as intersectional coalitions. Dr. Lê is the author of Return...

Anastasia Le

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Anastasia Le was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anastasia Le is a poet and printmaker from the Lake Chabot area of the East Bay. Her work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review’s Midterm Five: Interlace/Intersect, the 2021 Southeast Asian Student Coalition anthology, and on the walls of her former co-op. She approaches poetry with a Vietnamese...