Joshua ("Josh") L. Gómez
PhD Student: Art and Visual Culture of Mexico
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Joshua “Josh” L. Gómez is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student studying the art and visual culture of Mexico. He previously received an MA in Art History from UIC, where his master’s thesis, "Entre Leche y Pulque: Nourishing an Empire in Mexican Visual Culture," investigated how material fluids such as blood, breast milk, and the fermented drink known as pulque, became gendered symbols of the anxieties about racial fluidity and social contamination throughout 18th c. Mexico. His ongoing research explores the visual culture of pulque as it pertains to visual epistemologies of imperialism, coloniality, and the formation of ungovernable subjects through gendering and racializing processes.
He was previously the 2022-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Assistant to the Permanent Collection at the National Museum of Mexican Art. He was a curatorial assistant for the traveling exhibition "Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium" and wrote an essay for the accompanying exhibition catalog titled "Visualizing Invisible Labor: Constructing Space through Women’s Devotional Practices." His forthcoming essay, “Amalia Mesa-Bains’ Venus Envy, Chapter 1: Domesticana Defiance and Ephemeral Memories,” will be published in Intervenxions 3rd printed volume by the Latinx Project at NYU.