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…
Associate Professor of Art History Elise Archias and PhD Candidate Deanna Ledezma have each received a 2022 HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award from UIC Campus Housing. These awards recognize faculty members who…
UIC Art History major Julie Herrmann has been selected to present her paper “Private Consumption and Public Conventions: Portrait of Ross in L.A.“ which presents a close analysis of a work by Felix…
PhD Candidate Nicoletta Rousseva has had her review of Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Thames & Hudson, 2020) published in caa.reviews, the online reviews journal of…
Profs. Ömür Harmanşah and Peri Johnson along with other members of the Yalburt Project team have published a substantial article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies! Their article…
Art History PhD Candidate Sarah Rogers Morris was recently named as a Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow. This 12-month appointment, which begins in June, will support her dissertation research at the Smithsonian American Art…
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…
