Visual Arts

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to...

Erin Johnson

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, and Filmmaker
Erin Johnson was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 –she was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Erin Johnson is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her immersive installations and short films explore notions of collectivity, dissent, and queer identity. In her shape-shifting videos, constellations of artists, biologists, and film extras address the imbrication of science and nationalism.

Johnson is a current Working Artist Fellow at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) and a Winter Resident at Wave Hill...

Sintia Issa

PhD candidate in Visual Studies and Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz
Sintia Issa was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have...

Wu Hung

Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago and Professor of Art History
Wu Hung was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and...

Shih Chieh Huang

Sculpture and Installation Artist
Shih Chieh Huang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shih Chieh Huang was born in 1975 in Taiwan and lives and works in New York. Fascinated with science and biology, his work is characterized by playful installations composed of everyday objects that are transformed into ethereal sculptures, conjuring up magical realms. He received his BFA from the University of California, San...

Jen Chen-su Huang

Spring 2012 ARC Fellow, Artist, Writer, and Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design
Jen Chen-su Huang was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jen Chen-su Huang is a multidisciplinary artist, whose process-driven works interweave elements of craft tradition, language, history, and memoir. Her practice has been supported by fellowships through the Fulbright Commission in Taiwan, Luminarts, and the Textile Society of America, among others. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch, a part-time lecturer...

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

2019 ARC Fellow
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, performer and healer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. Her practice serves as a bridge,...

David Henry

Former Director of Performing and Media Arts at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
David Henry was a Visiting Curator 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.

David Henry has an M.F.A. from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and has been making images for over 50 years. Henry has a 40 year career working in art museums. 30 of those years were as an educator, programmer and curator at the Walker Art Center, the RISD Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Between 2009 and...

Pablo Helguera

Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Socially Engaged Art and Performance Artist, and Professor of Performing Arts at The New School
Pablo Helguera gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work incorporates pedagogy, sociology and theater and literary strategies. His project, “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra...

Connie Hatch

Photography, Audio, Installation and Narrative Performance Artist, and Professor of Art at CalArts
Connie Hatch was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Connie Hatch is an artist whose work includes photography, audio, installation and narrative performance. She has exhibited at New Langton Arts, Capp Street, Camerawork and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Her work has been featured at The New Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los...