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Through the Office of the Vice President for the Arts, Stanford University is making a major investment in the future of the arts, supporting cutting-edge artists and mobilizing its strengths across disciplines to inform the next generation of artistic practice.
A pillar of this investment is the Stanford Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts, which brings world-renowned artists to Stanford’s campus. The hope is that these residencies will be the beginning of a long, sustained and vital series that brings renowned artists to the campus to engage with the campus community around issues of significant import.
2020-2021 Visiting Artists
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EAMON ORE-GIRON
draws on motifs from indigenous and craft traditions alongside aesthetics from the 20th-century avant-garde. His paintings and use of geometric figures bring to mind early Modernist movements, such as Suprematism, Futurism and the Color Field painters of the New York School.
2018-2019 Visiting Artists
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NITIN SAWHNEY
is an award-winning musician, producer, composer, conductor and DJ who has scored for and performed with Paul McCartney, Sting, The London Symphony Orchestra, Anoushka Shankar, and Nelson Mandela, among others, and is a recent recipient of Ivor Novello's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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KAHLIL JOSEPH
is a filmmaker, and video artist, known for Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes (2013), Beyoncé: Lemonade (2016) and Kendric Lamar: m.A.A.d. (2015), whose work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, ICA Philadelphia, the New Museum and MOCA.
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INUA ELLAMS
is an internationally touring poet, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and the BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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KERRY TRIBE
is a video and performance artist whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern and SFMoMA.