The visiting artist programs supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts offer opportunities for leading visual and performing artists to engage deeply with students and faculty, and share their work with the broader Stanford community.
Academic Year 2022-2023
Kim Anno, Fall 2022
Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video artist currently focused on the intersection of art and science, particularly in aesthetic issues surrounding climate change, water, and adaptation.
This residency is hosted by the Department of Art & Art History and is a part of the Holt Visiting Artist Program.
Artist’s website.
Laleh Khadivi, 2022-2023
Laleh Khadivi is an Iranian American novelist and filmmaker. She is the author of a trilogy of novels tracing three generations of a Kurdish family as they make their way to the United States and undergo the profound transformations of the immigrant experience.
This residency is hosted by the Creative Writing Program and is part of the Stein Visiting Writer program.
Lauren Lee McCarthy, 2022-2023
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living, and the creator of p5.js.
This residency is in partnership with the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), for artists working at the intersections of art and artificial intelligence.
Artist's website.
Ellen Sebastian Chang, Winter-Spring 2023
Ellen Sebastian Chang is a director and writer who advocates for human rights through her art practices.
This residency is hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
Artist’s Instagram: @afterzora.
Known for her large-scale installations and public sculptures, artist Jean Shin transforms accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity and community engagement.
This residency is hosted by the LaBeaud Lab with funding from the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning.
Anicka Yi, 2022-2023
Working at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics, Anicka Yi’s practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine.
This residency is hosted by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts, in collaboration with the Stanford Arts Institute, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and the Human and Planetary Health Working Group.
Daniel Gray-Kontar, Winter 2023
Daniel Gray-Kontar is a poet, teacher, youth mentor, rapper, journalist, and education activist. He has worked as an advocate for social transformation in the city of Cleveland for more than 25 years.
Visiting Artist Course Spoken Word Poetry and Resistance: 1990's-Present hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
Michael Collier, Spring 2023
Michael Collier is the author of eight collections of poetry. His most recent book, The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems, appeared in 2021.
Academic Year 2021-2022
Manu Luksch, artist and filmmaker
Fall 2021-2022
This residency is hosted by the Department of Art & Art History and is a part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning cohort.
Artist's website.
John Bankston, painter
2021-2022
This residency is hosted by the Department of Art & Art History and is a part of the Holt Visiting Artist Program.
More information here.
Mikéah Ernest Jennings, actor/performer
Fall 2021-2022
This residency is hosted by the Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), and is part of the Mohr Visiting Artist Program.
Artist’s website.
Rashaad Newsome, artist working in AI
2020-2022
This residency is in partnership with the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), for artists working at the intersections of art and artificial intelligence.
Artist's website.
Photograph by Whitney Legge/Courtesy of Eyebeam
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Erika Chong Shuch / Ryan Tacata, performance makers
Winter 2021 – Fall 2022
This residency is hosted by the Asian American Art Initiative, a program of the Department of Art & Art History and the Cantor Arts Center, and supported by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity.
Artist’s website.
Adrian Burrell, artist
Winter-Spring 2022
This residency is hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
Artist’s website.
Van-Ahn Vo, performer/composer
Spring 2022
This residency is hosted by the Department of Music and is part of the Mohr Visiting Artist Program.
Necati Çelik, master oud musician
Spring 2019-20
2021-2022
This residency is sponsored by the Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, and co-hosted by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Department of Music.
Gauri Gill, photographer
Spring 2019-20
2021-2022
This residency is sponsored by the Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, and co-hosted by the Department of Art and Art History, the Center for South Asia and the Cantor Arts Center.
Van Jordan, poet
Winter-Spring 2022
This residency is hosted by the Creative Writing Program and is part of the Mohr Visiting Poets Program.
Photo credit: Anthony Alvarez
Academic Year 2020-2021
JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN, artist
2020 -2021
This residency is in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and the Electrical Engineering department.
Artist's website.
RASHAAD NEWSOME, artist working in AI
2020-21
This residency is in partnership with the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI),
which serves to augment human creative expression and experience by creating a unique interdisciplinary residency
for artists working at the intersections of art and artificial intelligence.
Artist's website.
Photograph by Whitney Legge/Courtesy of Eyebeam
EAMON ORE-GIRON, visual artist
2020-21
This residency is hosted by the Anderson Collection and is a part of Stanford Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts program.
Artist's website.
PAMELA Z, composer/performer and media artist
2020 -2021
This residency is hosted by the Department of Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and is a part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning cohort.
Artist's website.
Photo courtesy of Shawn Harris
BETTY SHAMIEH, playwright
2020-21
This residency is hosted by the Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Abbasi Program for Islamic Studies, and is a part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning cohort.
Artist's website.
AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN, artist/technologist
2020-21
This residency is hosted by Native American Studies, in collaboration with the Native American Culture Center (NACC), and is a part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning cohort.
Artist's website.
Academic Year 2019-2020
JULIE CHANG, contemporary artist
Fall 2019
This residency was part of Stanford’s Arts Intensive Program.
STEPHANIE DINKINS, transmedia artist working in AI
2019-20
This residency is a collaboration with Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Lab Programs (NFLP), and co-hosts on campus are the Office of the Vice President for the Arts (VPA), Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and the Stanford Humanities Center.
MARK DION, conceptual artist
Fall 2019
This residency is hosted by the Cantor Arts Center.
JIM CAMPBELL, electronic sculptor
2019-20
This residency is hosted by the Anderson Collection.
SLAVS AND TATARS, artist collective
Winter 2019-20
This residency is hosted by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts in collaboration with Art Practice Lecturer Ala Ebtekar’s Art, Social Space, and Public Discourse series.
DJ LYNEE DENISE, artist/scholar/writer/DJ
Winter 2019-20
This residency is hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
