Meet Stanford Arts’ 2025-26 Visiting Artists
Stanford Arts is excited to introduce three remarkable artists joining us for the 2025-26 academic year. Each brings a bold perspective on how the arts can illuminate, provoke, and transform our understanding of the world around us.
Hanif Abdurraqib
Poet | Cultural Critic
Denning Visiting Artist, 2025-26
Hanif Abdurraqib arrives at Stanford this fall as our 2025-26 Denning Visiting Artist, hosted by Stanford Public Humanities and the Creative Writing Program with support from the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund. A MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed author of A Little Devil in America and There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, Abdurraqib is one of today’s most vital cultural voices, weaving together music, sports, race, and American identity with powerful insight.
While excited to connect with Stanford’s renowned poetry faculty, Abdurraqib is equally eager to interact with organizers, activists, and young artists in the area. “I want to stretch beyond the institution and see what kind of world we can build together.” His first public event, “What is a Public Intellectual Today,” takes place October 8 at 6:30pm in Tresidder’s Oak Lounge, featuring a conversation with Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Matthew Morrison. RSVP here for this free event.
Ramón Perisé
Culinary Researcher | Innovation Leader
Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist, 2025-26
Ramón Perisé joins Stanford as the Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist and our first Chef in Residence, bringing scientific rigor and artistic sensibility to questions of food, aesthetics, and sensory knowledge. As Head of Innovation and Development at Mugaritz Madrid Culinary, Perisé operates at the cutting edge of culinary research, seeking “to infect everyone with creativity.”
During his residency, Perisé anticipates collaborations across fields including agricultural systems, microbiology, engineering, art, media, and computation. He’ll be working directly with the Hill-Maini Lab, an interdisciplinary research group harnessing fungi for food and sustainability applications.
This October, he’ll lead a fermentation and pickling workshop at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm, bringing curiosity and the flair of experimentation in a truly farm-to-table setting.
Erika Chong Shuch
Director | Choreographer | Cultural Strategist
VPA Visiting Artist, 2025-26
Erika Chong Shuch returns to Stanford with a practice at the intersection of performance and social practice. Hosted by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts, she’ll be working with the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life and other campus units on 1000 Ways to Hold, a year-long project where paired clay-making sessions become spaces for conversation, reflection, and care—culminating in 1,000 bowls that serve as vessels of memory and shared experience.
Her central inquiry feels particularly urgent: “I’m coming to campus with questions about care, about how we care for each other-especially right now in this moment and in this world when many of us are feeling so disconnected.” She asks: How do we show up for strangers? How do we hold each other’s grief and joy? How can creative practices serve as forms of care?
A Year of Collective Generation
Together, these artists represent boundary-crossing, socially engaged practice that expands how the arts influence and shape our world. Their residencies promise to forge new connections between disciplines and within Stanford’s broader community.
Follow @stanfordarts for updates, events, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into these extraordinary residencies. Read more about their residencies here.
