Visual Arts

Jesse Drew

Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis
Jesse Drew gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jesse Drew is Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working class. A teenage runaway at age 15, Drew lived in remote wilderness communes as well as inner-city urban communes in New England and California, participating in...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis
Glenda Drew gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist
Alex Donis gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ conventional attitudes, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latino, and Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, photography, video, and...

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Educator,
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

Their practice is grounded in...

Al-An deSouza

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Al-An deSouza was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Al-An deSouza works across photo-media, installation, text and performance works as staging grounds for historical memory and its legacies upon the present. Their works draw upon formal and informal archives, remaking them through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and...

T.J. Demos

Art Historian, Cultural Critic, and Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art at UC Santa Cruz
T. J. Demos was a Visiting Lecturer 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.

T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment...

Jen de los Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer
Jen de los Reyes was a Visiting Lecturer 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.

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member....

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator
Janet Delaney gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in...

BBB Johannes Deimling

Visual Artist
BBB Johannes Deimling was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

BBB Johannes Deimling, born in 1969 in Andernach, Germany, is a visual artist working in the fields of performance art, video art, art film, drawing, and painting as well as art education.

Deimling has invested a large part of his artistic research in teaching and learning performance art processes since 1997. In 2008 he founded the...

Whitney Davis

ARC Fellow and Helen Pardee Professor of History of Art at UC Berkeley
Whitney Davis was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 2001. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK, where he leads the annual York Summer Theory Institute in Art History (YSTI). Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of...