Visiting Artists
NAO BUSTAMANTE is a performance artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California, USA. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, video art, pop music, and experimental rips in time. Bustamante’s work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. She has performed in galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites throughout Asia, North Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and of course the United States. Her collaborations include working with such luminaries as Coco Fusco and Osseus Labrint. In 2001 she was the recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship; in 2007 she was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently living in Troy, New York, she holds the position of Assistant Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[naobustamante.com]
WILLIAM POPE.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has created multi-disciplinary work since the 1970s, exhibiting in New York, London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Montreal, Berlin, Zurich, and Tokyo. Select recent projects have been sited at Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Galerie Catherine Bastide and Sammlung Falckenberg. He is a featured artist in “Intersections” edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro, and “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness” by Darby English. Pope.L is currently lecturer in Theater and Rhetoric at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. [theblackfactory.com]
JENNIFER DELOS REYES is an artist originally hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Her theoretical and studio research interests include relational aesthetics, group work, interactive media, and artists’ social roles. She has exhibited videos, installations, and site-specific participatory work across North America and Europe. In 2006 she completed the intensive workshop Come Together: Art and Social Engagement at The Kitchen in New York. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Masters Grant. Delos Reyes has recently mounted her MFA exhibition, a conference on socially engaged art practices titled Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance. She currently teaches in the Social Practice Program with Harrell Fletcher at Portland State University. Her work explores connections, relationships, and interactions by situating participation, sharing, group work, and collaborations within an artistic discourse.[jendelosreyes.com]
HARRELL FLETCHER has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area; The Drawing Center, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC; DiverseWorks in Houston, TX; PICA in Portland, OR; CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA; Signal in Malmo, Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France; and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. He is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX. [harrellfletcher.com]
