Visiting Artists & Scholars Program
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program aims to reinforce the mission of the Art and Art History Department by inviting leading artists and scholars to present an array of artistic practices, historical discourse and divergent perspectives that can increase access to creativity and forge new territories between the arts and broader cultural movements.
The Art and Art History Visual Resources Center (VRC) maintains a collection of videos from the department’s Visiting Artist Program, available in streaming format to current faculty and students at CU Boulder. These include the artists’ public lectures and the What Follows… interview series... See the VRC’s instructions for access for more information.
Please be advised that videos are not available until after the semester of the artists’ visits. We invite you to attend the lectures in person.
Events Calendar
Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Archive
Dennis Adrian
Max Almy
Robert Brady
Victor Burgin
Jack Goldstein
Lucy Lippard
Barbara London
Juan Sanchez
Jackie Winsor
Gene Youngblood
Eric Bainbridge
Tom Butter
Richard Gordon
Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison
Dave Hickey
Alfredo Jaar
Susan Morgan
Peter Saul
Dennis Adams
Jimmie Durham
Guerrilla Girls
Kenneth Hale
Michiko Itatani
Thana Lauhakaikul
Andrew Leicester
Nic Nicosia
Walter Ostrom
Allan Sekula
Richard Slee
1990
David Avalos
Judith Francisca Baca
Richard Deacon
David Dunlap
Steve Durland
Carol Hepper
Peter Rose
Adrian Saxe
Joan Semmel
Andres Serrano
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Sylvia Snowden
1991
Terry Allen
Julie Ault
Robert Colescott
Alex Grey
Edgar Heap of Birds
Elizabeth Hess
David Ireland
Daniel Reeves
Jonas dos Santos
Miriam Schapiro
William Short
Deborah Small
William T. Wiley
1992
Houston Conwill
Loni Ding
Bonnie Gordon
Liz Larner
Gillian Lowndes
Dominique Mazeaud
Susan Meiselas
Hugh Merrill
Mister Imagination
John Pfahl
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Kay Walkingstick
1993
Mary Beth Edelson
Ann Hamilton
Lonnie Holley
Mary Lucier
Ron Nagle
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Lorna Simpson
Sister Serpents
Robert Stackhouse
May Stevens
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Cecilia Vicuna
Carrie Mae Weems
1994
Ann Agee
David Antin
Eleanor Antin
Mark Burns
Ruth Hardinger
Suzanne Lacy
Aida Laleian
Carmen Lomas Garza
Tyrone Mitchell
Clark Richert
Mark Thompson
Immanual P. Trujillo
1995
Nayland Blake
Stephen De Staebler
Paul Demarinis
Ellen Dissanayake
Benito Huerta
Carm Little Turtle
Long Nguyen
Elizabeth Caldwell Scott
Joyce J. Scott
Coreen Simpson
Rea Tajiri
Denise Ward-Brown
Sue Williams
Fred Wilson
1996
Lidya Buzio
Carmon Colangelo
Joe David
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Howardena Pindell
Lourdes Portillo
Janis Provisor
Annabeth Rosen
Bauer Sa
Patty Wickman
Deborah Willis
David Wilson
1997
Adrian Arleo
Bill Buchen
Mary Buchen
Ismael Frigerio
Luis Alfonso Jimenez
Susan Leopold
Beauvais Lyons
Yong Soon Min
Jeffry Mitchell
Ingrid Schaffner
Michael Shaughnessy
Shelly Silver
1998
Johnny Coleman
Glenn Ligon
Chico MacMurtrie
David McGee
Branda Miller
Cynthia Moku
Multi-Nationals
Joanna Osburn-Bigfeather
Mark Pharis
Adrian Piper
Fazal Sheikh
Accra Shepp
Kukuli Velarde
Bruce Yonemoto
1999
Radcliffe Bailey
Sheldon Brown
Sue Coe
Barbara DeGenevieve
Doug Jeck
Dinh Q. Le
Arnold Mesches
Judy Moonelis
Nobuho Nagasawa
Margo Sawyer
Nahum Bernabé Zenil
2000
Xenobia Bailey
Sadie Benning
Mel Chin
Kip Fulbeck
Moira Geoffrion
Peter Marcus
Tony Marsh
Adela Matasova
Walter McConnell
Diego Romero
2001
Kim Abeles
Kawaikaula'au Aona-Ueoka
Edward Dominguez
Peter Frank
Truman Lowe
Victor Masayesva
Jolene Rickard
Pitaloosie Saila
Alyson Shotz
Fred Tomaselli
Charleen Touchette
2002
Kerstin Abraham
Maria Campos-Pons
Saint Clair Cemin
Colleen Cutschall
Betsy Damon
Pat Courtney Gold
Robert Irwin
April Katz
Beverly McIver
Luis Gonzalez Palma
2003
Fatma Charfi M'Seddi
Michael Ray Charles
Phyllis Green
Susan Hefuna
Emily Jacir
James Rouvelle
Zineb Sedira
Devorah Sperber
Barbara Takenaga
2004
Mary Anne Friel
GALA Committee
Adriane Herman
Nina Katchadourian
William Pope.L
Jim Stone
Anne and Chris Kub Walsh
2005
Anne Balsamo
Enrique Chagoya
Neil Cummings
Harrell Fletcher
René Garcia
Rick Lowe
Oscar Munoz
Mindy Shapero
2006
Eleanor Antin
René Garcia
Kahn & Selesnick
Judith Lowry
Paul Pfeiffer
2007
Mary Jo Bole
Tania Bruguera
Rula Halawani
Chris Jordan
Marguerite Kahrl
Josiah McElheny
Karyn Olivier
Jan Theun van Rees
Shahzia Sikander
Duane Slick
Akio Takamori
2008
Lita Albuquerque
Kie Ellens
Regina Jose Galindo
Christoph Heinrich
Karen Kunc
Barbara Madsen
Richard Notkin
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
Andrea Polli
Carlos Runcie Tanaka
C. Maxx Stevens
Hank Willis Thomas
Clare Twomey
2009
Don Gregorio Anton
Gudrun Gut
John Hitchcock
Martin Kemp
Patrick Lichty
Zhi Lin
Sarah Lindley
Jeanne Liotta
Michael Jones McKean
Margaret Meehan
Haiko Meijer
Marjetica Potrc
Yumi Janairo Roth
Pamela Smith
Hank Willis Thomas
Melanie Walker
2010
Dan Boord
Kim Dickey
Rosalie Favell
Del Harrow
Deborah Haynes
Yeondoo Jung
John Jota Leanos
Larry McNeil
Robert Pruitt
Dario Robleto
Garrison Roots
Marina Rosenfeld
Luis Valdovino
Joel Peter Witkin
2011
William Basinski
Sally Berger
Clayton Brothers
Binh Danh
Spencer Finch
Alvin Gregorio
Del Harrow
Anita Jung
John Jota Leanos
Kira van Lil
Larry McNeil
Miller & Shellabarger
Shana Moulton
Ryan Mrozowski
Bonnie Rychlak
Chris Sauter
Tsherin Sherpa
Matt Wedel
2012
Janine Antoni
Alex Bag
Nao Bustamante
Lesley Flanigan
Fritz Haeg
Harmony Hammond
Liz Quackenbush
Anton Reijnders
Aki Sasamoto
Arlene Shechet
Bari Ziperstein
Claire Zitzow
2013
James Balog
Eric Beltz
James Elkins
Heather Mae Erickson
Bart Habermiller
Matthew Day Jackson
Victoria Keddie
Sue Pearson
Griselda Pollock
Walid Raad
Jennifer Reeder
Jose Ruiz
Jerome Silbergeld
Robert Spellman
Xavier Toubes
Li Zhao
2014
Sanford Biggers
Diane Burko
Natalie Jeremijenko
Kim Jongku
Tom LaDuke
Judith Leemann
Laurie Britton Newell
Natalija Vujosevic
Ericka Walker
2015
Ann Agee
Nicole Cherubini
Extrapolation Factory
Jacob Hashimoto
Desiree Holman
Noelle Jakeman
Brad Kahlhamer
Bruce Pollock
Robbie Rowlands
Tsherin Sherpa
Buster Simpson
Alex Webb
Rebecca Norris Webb
2016
James Bailey
Carol Golemboski
Janelle Iglesias
Ben Jackel
Quinn Jacobson
Brad Kahlhamer
William Lamson
Dani Leventhal ReStack
Faten Nastas Mitwasi
Fernando Orellana
2017
Visiting Artists
Benjamin DeMott
Jane Fine
Frohawk Two Feathers
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Larry Bob Phillips
Postcommodity
Erin Riley
Jenny Sabin
Tip Toland
Visiting Scholars
Barbara Anderson, Art Historian, State of New Mexico
Richard Neer, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago
Jamie Jacobs
Sherry Farrel-Racette, Métis-Canadian feminist scholar, author, and artist
Adair Rounthwaite, Associate Professor, Art History, School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washington
2018
Visiting Artists
Blaise Cayol
Joe Fedderson
Nicholas Galanin
Julia Haft-Candell
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Delilah Montoya
Ronald Rael
Jon Rubin
Maurice Sherif
Ian Weaver
Axel Void
Visiting Art History Scholars
Mario A. Caro, Director of MFA in Studio Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts
Juilee Decker, Associate Professor of Museum Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology
Frances Gage, Associate Professor of Early Modern Art, Buffalo State, SUNY
Nicholas Mirzoeff, visual culture theorist and professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
2019
Visiting Artists
Neal Ambrose-Smith
Garth Clark
Cognate Collective
Nettrice Gaskins
Peter Goin and Patty Limerick
Marie Herwald Hermann
Mary Mattingly
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo
Kathryn Polk
Anna Tsouhlarakis
Dyani White Hawk
Visiting Art History Scholars
Michael Cole, Howard McP. Davis Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Hui-shu Lee, Professor, Chinese Art, UCLA
Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art; Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Smith College
Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic
Dr. Sarah Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lily Woodruff, Associate Professor, Art History & Visual Culture, Michigan State University
2020
Visiting Artists
MyVillages, Wapke Feenstra
Kelly O'Brien
Visiting Scholars
Lori Boornazian Diel, Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University
2021
Visiting Artists
Sama Alshaibi
Nydia Blas
Nicki Green
LaMont Hamilton
Suchitra Mattai
Althea Murphy-Price
Robert Pruitt
Miguel Rivera
Mark Salvatus
Simone Leigh in conversation with Professor Kim Dickey
2023
Visiting Artists
Nan Goldin
Sarah Rara
Shoshanna Weinberger
Lenka Clayton
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Josephine Halvorson
Binh Danh
Tomashi Jackson
Jason Stopa
Sarah Rosalena
rafa esparza
Visiting Scholars
Robert Bailey, Associate Professor of Art History and Assistant Director of the School of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma
2024
Visiting Artists
Aitor Lajarin-Encina
Natalie Ball
Jovan C. Speller
Stephanie Hanes
Setsuko & Hiroki Morinoue
Anne Wu
Catherine Prose
Chris Miles
Nancy Baker Cahill
Zun Lee
Sarah McKenzie
Jammie Holmes
Visiting Art History Scholars
Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol, associate professor at Arizona State University
Naoko Seki, Professor of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
2025
Visiting Artists
Jonathan VanDyke
Kelly Chorpening
Baldwin Lee
Emily Brady
Koichi Yamamoto
Sharif Farrag
Mina Elison
Jules Allen
Jackie Gendel
David Horvitz
Ebitenyefa Baralaye
David Velasco