Catherine Becker’s article “The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India’s Youngest State” has been published in the May 2023 issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle…
The Department of Art History is delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s prizes for Art History majors. Vae Faulkner, Maegan Resuello, and Haruka Smith have received the John D. McNee Art…
PhD candidate Sarah Rogers Morris has been selected for the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship, which provides funding from UIC’s Graduate College to support dissertation writing in 2023-24. Sarah will work toward completing her dissertation,…
First-year PhD student Humaira Hossain has received the Graduate College’s Award for Graduate Research to support summer research and Urdu language coursework with the American Institute of India Studies in Lucknow, India. Congratulations,…
As art history professors, we have experienced our share of student responses to artworks like the one testified to by Aram Wedatalla, president of the Muslim Student Association at Hamline University: “It hurts…
Associate Professor of Art History Andrew Finegold’s book Vital Voids (University of Texas Press, 2021), was reviewed in the latest issue of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture: Mollenhauer, Jillian. “Review: Vital…
Raquel Flecha Vega (PhD candidate) has been awarded a fellowship for AY 2023-24 from the Mellon Foundation and the Inter-University Program for Latino Research through UIC’s LALS program to support the completion of…
PhD candidate Maggie Schuster has been awarded a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship to support enrollment in Intermediate Hindi this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s South Asia Summer Language Institute.…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas at UIC, had written a review of Chicago-based artist Yvette Mayorga’s exhibition at The Momentary (Bentonville, Arkansas) for Hyperallergic.…
UIC Art History alumnus Sim Hinman Wan (PhD, 2020) has published an article titled “Disciplining Otherness in the Tropics: Dutch Philanthropic Sites and the Urbanization of Indonesian Ports, 1640–1730” in the most recent…
The exhibition “Fortune and Folly in 1720,” which was co-curated by UIC Associate Professor of Art History Nina Dubin and is currently on view at the New York Public Library Schwarzman Building, was…
PhD candidates Kaveh Rafie and Leili Adibfar will be teaching an online course on the Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian, to be held in conjunction with a solo exhibition of her work at the…
Nadia Gribkova publishes “Out of Nowhere: Emptiness and Aesthetic Feeling in the Works of Collective Actions” in Athanor vol. 39! An article-length version of Gribkova’s Master’s thesis, the paper examines the early works…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas, has had the exhibition he curated, Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium, reviewed in Hyperallergic. The exhibition is on view…
Assoc. Prof. Elise Archias was a speaker on the panel “Topical Abstraction: Race, Materials, Process” at the SECAC Conference in Baltimore, on October 27th.
Associate Professor of Art History Elise Archias gave a talk on Melvin Edwards at the symposium “Surrogates: Embodied Histories of Sculpture in the Short 20th Century” at Yale University, September 29 – Oct…
PhD Student Marina Álvarez has published an article titled “Monumentality and Anticolonial Resistance: Feminist Graffiti in Mexico” in the journal Public Art Dialogue (volume 12, issue 2, 2022). Congratulations, Marina! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21502552.2022.2112349
Art History PhD candidate Leili Adibfar has published an article titled “Aesthetics, Alienation, and Idealism: An Inquiry into Ali Shariati’s Account of Art” in the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs. The article can…
From PhD Student Anneliese Hardman, who is one of the organizers of this conference: 2023 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library January 16-28, 2023 Newberry Library and…
Nina Dubin’s co-curated exhibition “Fortune and Folly in 1720,” forthcoming at The New York Public Library, is highlighted in The New York Times. Congratulations, Nina!
PhD Student Nadia Gribkova has had a two-part essay titled “New Financial Totality: Beeple’s Everydays” published on Plot.online. From her introduction: [S]ituating EVERYDAYS art historically may provide a contextual and formal…
Andrew Finegold, who joined the Art History faculty at UIC in 2016, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations, Andrew!
Third-year PhD student Hannah Gadbois spent this summer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on a funded language-study trip through the Arizona State University Critical Languages Institute. Her travel was fully funded by the government through…
PhD Student Joshua Gomez has had his review of the exhibition Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of Malinche published in Hyperallergic. The Legacy of La Malinche is the first comprehensive examination of La…
Abstraction in and around the Middle East and North Africa in the Context of Decolonization Session will present: Virtually Leili Adibfar, University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaveh Rafie, University of Illinois at…
Post-Socialism in Chile and Spain: Critical Realism in the Art of Patricio Guzmán and Santiago Sierra — This dissertation investigates the aesthetic question of realism in the aftermath of Chile and Spain’s political…
Here is a short description of her project: — Bad Comrades: Art and Answerability after Socialism — This dissertation examines visual continuities and critical affinities between contemporary art and histories of socialism in…
Robert Cozzolino (BA, 1994) received the 2022 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from CAA for his exhibition catalog Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator…
With the successful defense of her dissertation, “The Nation Within: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago” (abstract below), Marissa Baker has completed the requirements for her PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Baker!! “The Nation…
Amplifying the voices and stories of current and former public housing residents—a central focus of the Chicago-based National Public Housing Museum—will be made possible by a $1 milliondonation from the Joseph and Bessie…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas, is working on an exhibition at the New Mexico State University Art Museum titled Contemporary Ex Votos: Devotion Beyond…
David M. Sokol, of Oak Park and a professor emeritus of Art History at UIC, was appointed for a full three year term to the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission by Governor…
Assistant Professor of Art History Andrew Finegold’s book, Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture (University of Texas Press, 2021), has been reviewed in the latest issue of The Art Bulletin.…
Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas Emmanuel Ortega has been awarded a $40,000 grand from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the exhibition he…
Assistant Professor of Art History Andrew Finegold has received a UIC Award for Creative Activity for 2022-23 to help with the expansion of his website project Ancient Americas, Appropriated. The full list of…
Art Criticism in the Wild: Wolfgang Paalen, Clement Greenberg, Lucy Lippard ABSTRACT Mid-century American art critics held conflicting views about emotion. Whereas Wolfgang Paalen and Lucy Lippard understood emotion as immediate—as wild and…
Brenda Molife, who received her BA in Art History from UIC in 1992, has been appointed the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt),…
Deanna Ledezma has been interviewed by photographer and historian Sandra Riaño in The Latinx Project, in a piece titled “Beyond the Frame: A Conversation on Latinx Family Photography with Deanna Ledezma.” The piece,…
Phd Candidate Leili Adibfar will be presenting a paper titled “Of Existence, Embodiment, and Oil: Behjat Sadr’s Paintings and the Question of the Local and the Global in Writing the Art History of…
Erik Wenzel’s two qualifying papers for the MA in Art History have been enthusiastically approved: “The Cube Itself: Horror, Madness and Fate in the Fourth Dimension“ with readers Hannah Higgins and Jennifer Reeder…
Art History PhD Student Leslie Wooden has been awarded a 2022 National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study Twi and conduct dissertation research in Ghana. General information about the…
The $100,000 award funds the project “Surviving the Long Wars: Visualizing Parallels Between the U.S. ‘Indian Wars’ and the ‘Global War of Terror,’” Co-led by Therese Quinn, professor and director of museum and…
PhD Candidate Kaveh Rafie has been selected by the Institute for the Humanities as one of their 2022-2023 Resident Graduate Scholars. Kaveh will be working on his dissertation, titled “Pleated Modernity: Modern Art…
In a letter to President Killeen, Board of Trustees, Chancellor Amiridis, Provost Reyes, Dean Colley, and Vice Provost of Diversity and Associate Chancellor Pallares, the faculty and researchers of the School of Art…
PhD candidate Alisa Swindell will participate in On Counterpoints, a panel in conjunction with the exhibition A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence at the Block Museum of Art of the…
