Visiting Artist Colloquium

Each year a series of visiting artists talk about their work and studio practice.  each event begins with a lunch at 11:45am. The talks start at 12 noon and last roughly 45 minutes with additional time for a Q&A. All colloquium talks will take place on the second floor bridge of Whittier hall.

2025-2026 Visiting Artist lineup:

Jackie Castillo

Friday, November 7, 2025
Jackie Castillo was born in Orange, California and is a Los Angeles-based artist working in film photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice is rooted in examining the isolation and anxiety felt by the laboring class and immigrant communities. Utilizing the visual vernacular of surface, material, and the built environment, she examines how an internalized loss of identity may render the self as unreal, estranged, and in various states of invisibility. Her research has largely focused on the history of land development in Southern California and its vast, yet violent relationship with the cultural and material landscapes of this region. She studied at the School of Photography at Orange Coast College before transferring to the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture where she received her BA in Art in 2018. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, and the 2025 is the Dedalus Foundation recipient of the MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture
https://www.cypresscollegephotography.com/jackie-castillo

Pui Tiffany Chow

Friday, November 21, 2025
Artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Pomona College (Claremont CA), based in Los Angeles.
Pui Tiffany Chow (b. Hong Kong) immigrated to the US after the Handover of Hong Kong from the British government and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Through pointed art historical references, Pui’s paintings and drawings examine the female form and the capacity for the canvas to stage them. Her work explores the intersection between abstraction and figuration, interrogates painting traditions in both subject and form, referencing Eastern and Western cultural codes and modes that coalesce into a pastiche of different tempos, feelings and approaches. 
Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Susanna (solo) at Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Hurly-Burly (solo) at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), 2 Bad Mouse, After Hours Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), Bend, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2022). Pui has participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2024), Mey Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Pomona College Chan Gallery, Claremont (2024, 2022), The Wolford House, Los Angeles (2023), Shrine Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (2023), Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris (2022), Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), Gravy Gallery, Santa Cruz (2022), One Trick Pony, Los Angeles (2021), Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles (2020), UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA (2019) and Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (2018).
https://www.tiffanychow.com/

Chandra Robinson

Friday, December 5, 2025
Chandra Robinson is a principal at Lever Architecture, a firm founded in Portland, Oregon by Thomas Robinson and Pamela Kislak in 2009. Now based in both Portland and LA, the practice currently numbers over 55 employees.  Lever Architects operates at the intersection of research and design, developing and testing next generation building assemblies and sustainable tools while foregrounding human experience and equity. Recognized for innovation in timber construction by Fast Company in 2021 and 2022, the firm won Architectural Record’s Vanguard Award in 2017 and was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York in 2017.
Robinson is vice chair of the Portland Design Commission, a founding board member and treasurer of the Portland chapter of the National Organization for Minority Architects, and a member of the advisory board of Hip Hop Architecture Camp.
https://leverarchitecture.com/
 

Germane Barnes

Friday, February 28, 2026
Germane Barnes founded Studio Barnes architecture firm in 201, and is an Assosciate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. A licensed architect, Germane Barnes has over 15 years of architectural experience as his career has spanned continents from South Africa to Spain to Italy. Currently based in Miami with projects in Chicago, IL, Ft. Worth, TX, Memphis, TN, and Indianapolis, IN, the firm’s work is both expansive and far-reaching. Accompanied by a closely knit team of designers, the total design experience exceeds two decades.
Studio Barnes has been featured in international venues and publications most notably, The Art Institute of Chicago, Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art NY, SF MoMA, MAS Context, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, Metropolis Magazine, Domus, LACMA, Denver Art Museum and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.
https://germanebarnes.com/

Greg Carideo

Friday, March 21, 2026
Greg Carideo was born in 1986, in Minneapolis, MN, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis in 2008 and an MFA from New York University in 2015. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Public Gallery, London in 2025; In Lieu, Los Angeles in 2024; Foreign & Domestic, New York in 2023; FR MoCA, Fall River in 2022; and GRIMM, New York in 2021. His work has been featured in recent group exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Pangée Gallery, Montreal; 12.26 Gallery, Dallas; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal; Margot Samel, New York; Public Gallery, London; ICA, Portland; and International Objects, New York. Several of Carideo’s exhibitions have garnered press, including a New York Times review for his solo exhibition, Dog Eared Reverie at Foreign & Domestic in 2023, a BOMB: Studio Visit for his solo exhibition, groundwork at Public Gallery in 2025, as well as group exhibitions featured in Cultured Magazine, Artforum, and the New York Times.
https://gregcarideo.com/

Kate Baird

Friday, March 28, 2026
Kate Baird is a painter who founded New Moon Studio Space.  The studio offers the conditions that artists may need to maintain, grow or deepen their creative practices. It aims to be a place for experimentation, collaboration, focus and discovery that benefits both tenants and the broader community.  As a believer in the potential of the arts to work wonders in both individual lives and communities, Kate has been proud to participate in the creative life of Springfield, MO in a variety of ways, including her eight years as Museum Educator at the Springfield Art Museum.
https://www.newmoonstudiospace.com/about