Visual Arts

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...

Maggie Lawson

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Chef
Maggie Lawson was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – she was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Maggie Lawson returned to the place four generations of her ancestors called home, Cincinnati, Ohio, in January 2020. She was awarded my MFA from the University of California Berkeley in May 2018. Lawson's...

Tony Labat

Multimedia Artist, Installation Artist, and Former Professor in the Department of Performance and Video at the San Francisco Art Institute
Tony Labat was a Visiting Artist 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.

With ironic wit and incisive social critique, Tony Labat's provocative, nonlinear narrative collages confront cultural identity, loss and displacement. Adopting an irreverent, often subversive stance, Labat represents the experience of difference and marginalization from the mediated position of the "outsider," and deconstructs the codes by which the mass media...

Komar & Melamid

Conceptualist Artist Duo
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid were ARC's 2001-2002 Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are Moscow-born artists who emigrated to Israel in 1977 and then to New York in 1978. The two artists first collaborated on a joint exhibition entitled Retrospectivismin Moscow in 1967, and from 1972 started signing all their works with both names, regardless of whether they were made collaboratively. They continued to collaborate until the early 2000s, referring to their...

Ava Koohbor

Poet, Visual, and Sound Artist
Ava Koohbor gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi-speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. Many of her poems have been appeared in various magazines. Her chapbook, Triangle Squared...

Karen Kipphoff

Artist and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy
Karen Kipphoff was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Karen Kipphoff has been employed as a professor at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) at Østfold University College since 2012 (60% position). From 1999 to 2011, she held the position of professor in visual arts with a focus on installation and performance (100%) at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. Kipphoff is currently the program coordinator...

Grant Kester

Professor of Art History at UC San Diego
Grant Kester was a Visiting Scholar 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.

Grant Kester is Professor of Art History and the founding editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism (field-journal.com). Kester is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice. His...

Leandro Katz

Writer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Leandro Katz was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Spiraling Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in Argentina, Leandro Katz arrived in New York in 1965. As a poet, translator, Conceptual artist, and professor, Katz participated in experimental literary movements in Buenos Aires, Quito, Lima, and New York. Coming to the end of a winding path through South and Central America, in New York he found a thriving community of avant-garde artists and...

Asma Kazmi

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art at UC Berkeley
Asma Kazmi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Combining visual and textual detritus from western...

Leena Joshi

ARC Fellow, Artist, Writer, and Educator
Leena Joshi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms...