Sarah Ahmed has completed her MA degree by successfully defending her thesis titled “Repurposing Residuals: Art, Material, & Memory in the Long War on Terror” on March 14, 2022. Congratulations Sarah! The co-chairs/co-advisors…
“Contemporary Art and the PMC (Part Two),” a special issue of nonsite edited by Associate Professor of Art History Elise Archias, with an article by PhD candidate Daniel Sánchez-Bataller launches. Contents of Part…
Current UIC PhD Student Artie Foster will be presenting a paper titled “In the Crosshairs of Empire: The role of diaspora and postcolonial ‘Empire’ in Frank Bowling’s Africa to Australia” and UIC alumna…
Associate Professor Emerita Virginia Miller has published a chapter titled “The Disembodied Eye in Maya Art and Ritual Practice” in the volume Making “Meaning”: Archaeology, Art History, and the Legacy of Terence Grieder,…
UIC alumna Isabelle Martin (MA, 2019) has published an article titled “‘The Weight of Their Past’: Reconstructing Memory and History through Photographs in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do” in Volume 6…
The Department of Art History is proud of the accomplishments of Dr. Deanna Ledezma who recently completed and successfully defended her dissertation on February 4, 2022. Congratulations Deanna! Deanna’s dissertation is entitled “The…
Anne Helmreich, Paul B. Jaskot, Niall Atkinson, Koenraad Brosens, André Dombrowski, Jacqueline Francis, Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Hubertus Kohle, Min Kyung Lee, Barbara McCloskey, Emily Pugh, and Blake Stimson on social art history in the…
Emily will be working with curator Samantha Friedman on an upcoming exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe drawings. The last show she worked on was Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw which is currently on view at MoMA.
Originating at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence” explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation…
Professors Ömür Harmanşah and Peri Johnson published a new book chapter on Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project! Their article is entitled “Mountains as Connected Landscapes of Alterity: Boz Mountain Range and its…
Dr Deepthi Murali (PhD in Art History, UIC), who is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, received NEH/AHRC New Directions for…
Emmanuel Ortega (Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas) has had his review of “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and…
PhD Student Maggie Schuster has completed her MA degree by successfully defending her thesis titled “Entering the Zenana: Ephemera and Power in Mughal Architecture” on December 7, 2021. Congratulations Maggie! The chair of…
The Department of Art History is proud of the accomplishments of Dr. Ionit Behar who recently completed and successfully defended her dissertation on October 14, 2021. Congratulations Ionit! Ionit’s dissertation is entitled “Intimate…
Graduate College has announced the recipients of this year’s Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards across the University. Dr. Deepthi Murali, who received her PhD degree in Art History from our department in 2020,…
Congratulations to Art History PhD students Julian Adoff, Raquel Flecha, Angela Kepler, and Leili Adibfar, who won Provost’s Graduate Research Awards from the Graduate College in the Fall cycle of applications. This award…
Issue 13 of Awakened Voices: The Body Speaks is set to publish TODAY December 17th. In this issue survivors, allies, and advocates explore how the body expresses itself and speaks about trauma, its consequences and…
“Contemporary Art and the PMC (Part One),” the first of two special issues of nonsite edited by Elise Archias has launched. Contributions include: Elise Archias, Introduction, featuring a discussion of Ed Bereal and Larry…
PhD Student Nadia Gribkova has completed her MA degree with a thesis titled “Looking in the Wrong Direction: Emptiness and the Aesthetic Feeling in the Early Works of Collective Actions.” Her thesis examines…
Alisa Swindell is an art historian specializing in the history of photography with a focus on race and sexuality. Most recently she was a curatorial research associate at the Block Museum of Art…
Department of Art History|Posted on October 01, 2021
The School of Art and Art History is thrilled to announce the creation of the Robert Munman Student Research Fund in Art History, established by Mark Clark to honor the exceptional contributions to…
From left: Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Rex Tolliver; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Commissioner Kimberly Neely Du Buclet; “Tussle” artist Ted Sitting Crow Garner; School of Public Health graduate student…
Attention graduating and recently graduated PhD students: Smarthistory is seeking applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a year long full-time position. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in art history (within…
Attention faculty, staff, and students: The Governor’s Emergency Educational Relief Fund granted $1.3 million to UIC and is awarding up to $2500 per student for past due rent, medical bills, computer-related expenses, familial…
“I find I never feel quite complete unless I’m doing all the arts– visual, musical and literary. I guess that’s why I developed the term ‘intermedia,’ to cover my works that fall conceptually…
UIC doctoral candidate Ionit Behar has been selected as one of the curators of the Terminal 5 Expansion public art project at O’Hare International Airport — the City of Chicago’s largest single acquisition…
To See, to Keep, to Know: Photography and Intergenerational Knowledge Production Session will present: In-Person Deanna Ledezma, University of Illinois at Chicago and Alisa Swindell, University of Illinois at Chicago Email Address(s): deanna.ledezma@gmail.com…
Intern Convening: August 2 – 6, 2021 Join a dynamic group of emerging arts professionals and explore how the next generation of arts leaders can transform the future of cultural institutions. Organized and led…
The Terminal 5 Expansion public art project will include curatorial/design team Ionit Behar and Andrew Schachman (Behar X Schachman), and new large-scale commissions by artists Nelly Agassi, Jonathan Michael Castillo, Assaf Evron, Krista…
Associate Professor Elise Archias has published a book review of Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary by Carrie Noland in Art Journal. Her review is titled “Connection as a Structuring Principle” and can be…
For the past two years, MA student Emily Olek has been working on a show and catalog of Joseph E. Yoakum’s work for the Art Institute of Chihcago, MoMA, and the Menil Collection.…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas, has published an article titled “The Mexican Picturesque and the Sentimental Nation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Landscape” in the…
Assistant Professor Andrew Finegold’s book, Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture, has been published by the University of Texas Press. Vital Voids is an innovative study in which it is…
Emmanuel Ortega has become an Assistant Professor of Art History at UIC. He first joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018, and then, thanks to a generous gift from the…
Sponsored by The Working Group in Russian and East European Jewish Cultures, a joint enterprise between the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://sites.google.com/view/junior-scholar-workshop-in-rus/home
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle: For those who are new to your work, I’m interested to hear you talk about how you got into the art world and how you define yourself as a member…
Two Art History doctoral students have won awards from the Graduate College. Leslie Wooden won an Award for Graduate Research for her project “‘Africanization’: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Photography in…
Art History major Julie Herrmann‘s paper “Private Consumption and Public Conventions: Portrait of Ross in L.A.” written for Art History 301: Theories and Methods in Art History has been selected by the Art History faculty…
This juried show exhibits the practices of a group of emerging Iranian artists who, with the exception of the few, live across Iran. The selecting of the works by the jury members is…
Art History MA student Sarah Ahmed has won the very competitive ArtTable Fellowship for this summer to assist a very exciting curatorial project at LACMA, assisting Dr. Linda Komaroff, curator of Islamic Art…
Edward Krasiński: Studio as Site of the Universal by Nadia Gribkova In the 1970s, a thin line of blue Scotch tape began its horizontal motion across the interior of Edward Krasiński’s (1925–2004) studio…
Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present, by Pamela M. Lee, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020, 360 pp., 15 col. and 54 b. & w. illus., hardback,…
