Kale Serrato Doyen
BA, 2020: Modern/Contemporary U.S. art and architecture
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Kale (Kayleigh) Serrato Doyen received a BA in Art History and a Museum Studies minor from the School of Art and Art History at UIC in Spring 2020. As an undergraduate student, Kale was an America Needs You-Illinois Fellow; received internships at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; and was a 2018-2020 Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her undergraduate thesis, "The Landscape of Luis Medina," located the artist's 1980s series of winter lakefront landscape photographs to the Chicago queer beach, Belmont Rocks,
arguing that they aesthetically reflect the winter of the AIDS epidemic.
Kale is now a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies modern/contemporary U.S. art and architecture with a focus on Black and Latinx artists. For her dissertation, she is digitally mapping historic photographs from the Carnegie Museum of Art's Teenie Harris Archive in conversation with local communities to analyze structural racism and resistance in Pittsburgh's built environment. Her graduate research has been supported by the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the American Council for Learned Societies.