Alicia Perkovich
PhD Student: Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory
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About
Alicia Perkovich (she/her) is a PhD student studying art history and theory since 1930. She is interested in art’s changing relationship to politics, labor, and social institutions, and how projects increasingly enmeshed in everyday life can still distinguish themselves as art. Relatedly, she is invested in how art history’s values of close looking, formal relationships, and affective communication aid global struggles for justice.
Alicia is currently finishing a Master’s thesis which tracks the legacy of Institutional Critique in the 21st century. Its chapters address how American performance art, carceral reform, and student protests held onto public notions of art and address in increasingly privatized social spaces.
Alicia is a recipient of the UIC University Fellowship. She received BAs in Art History and History from the University of Maryland, College Park (2023), and has held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.