In conjunction with the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The Department of Art History is proud to celebrate its graduating doctoral students for the 2021-22 academic year. We wish them the best as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
Nancy Lin
"Making Spaces: Site-Based Practice in Contemporary Chinese Art in the Long 1990s"
Advisor: Wu Hung and Katherine Taylor
Nancy Lin will be starting as a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.
Chloé Pelletier
Neil Harris has been awarded the Harvard GSAS Centennial Medal for founding the academic discipline of cultural history and shedding light on those who launched many important visual and historical developments in American society. Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus in the department of art history at the University of Chicago.
Elissa Osterland and Xinyang Li have a conversation on falling:
"On Falling, Part I"
surface
light
layers
the invisible
space
movement
embodiment
the sun
falling
flying
catching
seeing
falling
flying
sand
Congratulations to Professor Megan Sullivan for being selected to receive a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring! This award honors faculty members for their achievements in classroom teaching and for their special contributions in advising and mentoring graduate students. This process is spearheaded by graduate students, who coordinate with the department the application and collect letters from their peers.
Congratulations to Richard Neer, who was elected a member for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognizing the groundbreaking contributions he has made to research in our discipline. Neer is the Barbara E. and Richard J.
When Ruth Duckworth arrived in Chicago from London to teach at the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios in 1964, she planned to stay for a year. Instead, she lived in the city for nearly fifty years until her death in 2009—more than half her life. It is strange, then, that she is still primarily known as a “British studio potter,” rather than as an innovative Chicago sculptor, deeply engaged in the natural world, her adopted city, and advanced artistic developments in the U.S. in the 1960s and ’70s.
Help us in welcoming Mohit Manohar to the department of art history. He has accepted a two-year position as a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow that will begin this fall 2022. In this position he will be teaching one course per annum for the department as he builds his research profile before transitioning to becoming a tenure-track assistant professor of art history.
BACK & AGAIN: Re-turn, Re-birth, and Re-generation
In 2007, Pritika Chowdhry created her installation, Queering Mother India, an anti-memorial that examines the experience of women in the Partition of India in 1947. Since then she has continued to build on this body of work through the Partition Anti-Memorial Project. Chowdhry excavates the counter-memories of the Partition and creates experiential art installations that are anti-memorials to the Partition through the dual lenses of postmemory and diasporic (dis)location.