People - Master List — Transart Institute

Leonard Mutua/ Musyoki Mutua

Musyoki Mutua is a multi-talented artist hailing from the vibrant Akamba community in Kenya.

Past (Guest)--October 24, 2020Music, poetry, storytelling, Metaphysics, community

Ogutu Muraya

Ogutu Muraya is a storyteller, performance artist, and writer, with a profound curiosity in the connection between the spiritual and the neurological, between realms of thinking and meaning, change and understanding.

Past (Guest)--October 20, 2020History, memory, orature, literature, theatre-making, storytelling, writer, fabulation

Joseph Muriithi

Choreographer Joseph Muriithi works with dancers and actors of all ages and experience level proficiency at organizing live performance helping to integrate costume into performance and developing routines, specialized in large theatre productions.

Past (Guest)--October 17, 2020LIVE ART DANCE, CONTEMPORARY DANCE, INTEGRATED, INCLUSION

Rosie Olang' Odhiambo

Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo is a curator, bookmaker and artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is facilitating a session for the Trans Art residency in Nairobi

Julia Olson

Julia Olson is a visual artist.

Alumni--April 17, 2020niqab, hijab, imperceptible self, identity, veil, metaphors, connectedness, the sacred, storytelling

Derek Owens

Derek Owens is a professor of English at St. John's University, New York, where I direct the Institute for Writing Studies.

Derek Owens

Derek Owens is an artist and writer living on Long Island and teaching in New York City.

Alumni--April 15, 2020collage, painting, mixed media, fiction, poetry, fabulist, magical realism, pedagogy, time, memory, myth, place, haunting

KP Pradeepkumar

KP Pradeepkumar is an artist whose works revolve around memoirs in an extensive logic of narrative in which paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture are fuse with visual testimony as an ongoing process of deceptive self-representation in order to reconstruct the past and an artist myths in present.

Alumni--February 17, 2020Subaltern art, esthetics, imagination, intuition

Zoran Poposki

Dr Zoran Poposki, FRSA is a multi-award-winning transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator based in Hong Kong. Poposki explores cultural translation, liminality, identity, and public space through digital art (including AI and NFT art) combined with painting, drawing, photography, (post-digital) printmaking, performance art, video, film, curating, art education, and publishing.

Ernesto Pujol

Ernesto Pujol is a queer eco-cultural worker in the post-democratic age of extinction. He socially choreographs durational performances as psychic portraits of peoples and places under threat. Pujol creates aesthetic, meditative, meditative experiences crafted with elements of walking and stillness, silence and minimal gestures.

Advisors--January 3, 2020

Susie Quillinan

Susie Quillinan is a curatorial researcher based in Lima, Peru. She develops publications, residencies, encuentros, exhibitions and study programming interdependently with artists, curators, researchers, collectives, places, institutions and other learners. Her current research focuses on practices of collective reading and study, weaving as methodology and a curatorial ethics of accompaniment.

Alumni, Advisors, Core Advisors--October 10, 2019CS Making Public

Holly Rhame

Holly Rhame is an artist based in Hudson, New York. The driving engine behind her practice is the process of recuperation or the inclusion of all that is abjected from consciousness. This process of death and rebirth generates a unique symbolic order that she uses along with the process of image making as a map for the building of her life as well as for my continued investment in the process of individuation.

--October 7, 2019Painting, Drawing, Folds, Metaphysics, Touch, Recuperation, Collage, PhD

Bill Ratner

Bill Ratner is a storyteller.

Alumni--September 17, 2019storytelling, reconciliation efforts, narrative therapy, social change

Raphael Raphael

Raphael is a film and media scholar and digital artist.

Alumni--September 17, 2019digital, film, cinema, transnational, transmedia, disability studies, ability, genre

Stephanie Reid

Stephanie Reid is an interdisciplinary artist whose focus on fine art and photography lead into film making, video, animation / effects, and sound as mediums for more complex storytelling.

Alumni--September 17, 2019collaboration, healing, home, non-human interactions, community, montage, fire, flight, participatory art and music

Holly Regan

Ferdinand / Holly Regan is a multidisciplinary writer and artist who explores the ways that we connect, transcend, and heal through altered states. As a queer and trans person, they focus on the experience of underrepresented communities through work for the page, stage, table, and screen.

Aisha Richards

Aisha Richards is an author, a practicing designer for over a decade and an academic activist. As breathe of practice evolves she applies intersectional social justice to everything she does. Founding Shades of Noir, The Centre for Race & Practice Based Social Justice her work has inspired and informed the full spectrum of creatives and educational practitioners across the UK.

Advisors--September 1, 2019Activism, pedagogy, Research, intersectionality, community, black feminism

Kim Robertson

Kim Robertson is an artist and educator. She has a Bachelor’s in Design (Textile Design) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts, Dundee, and an MA in Fine Art from the RCA in London. She founded her own design and manufacture company based in London selling works to boutiques, galleries, and high-end department stores.

Julia Wieger

Julia Wieger works as an artist, researcher and teacher. Her work is concerned with history writing, archives, collective approaches to knowledge production and spatial practices – through feminist and decolonizing lenses. She is a PhD student in Artistic Practice at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg and at NABA in Milan.

Carolina Rito

Carolina Rito, PhD, is a curator and researcher working on creative and critical methods in artistic research, curating as knowledge production, decolonial practices and new institutionalism. She understands practice as plural ways of investigating and intervening in the world. She supervises doctorates to completion and examines internationally.

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