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Professor, Art/Art History
Professional Service
- Advisory Board, Art in Networks: GDR and its Global Relations .
Role: consulting.
Board member .
12/01/2022 - present
- Oboe Journal, Studies on the Bienal de São Paulo .
Role: Peer reviewer.
Peer review article.
09/29/2022 - present
- Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal (LALVC).
Peer Review.
11/04/2021 - present
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Reviewer for fellowships.
12/01/2020 - 01/31/2022
- Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art .
Reviewer for fellowships.
11/01/2020 - 01/12/2021
- Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos .
Peer Reviewer.
12/21/2018 - present
- Prince Claus Awards .
Nominate artists for consideration for award.
09/09/2018 - present
- Hans Nefkens Foundation .
Nominate artists for award and exhibition.
05/21/2018 - present
- Palgrave Press.
Peer Reviewer, Palgrave edited volume A.
04/01/2016 - present
- Getty Research Journal .
Peer Reviewer.
02/11/2016 - present
- Oxford Univ Press .
Peer Reviewer, Textbook on Latin American Art.
09/01/2015 - present
- Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos .
Peer Reviewer.
05/15/2014 - present
- Freewaves.
Board Member.
09/2013 - present
- Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Role: Consult on upcoming Afro-Brazil exhibition .
Advisory Board.
09/2013 - present
- Critical Studies in Improvisation Journal/ Études critiques en improvisation .
Role: Peer review.
Peer Reviewer.
12/2010 - 06/2011
- Getty Research Journal.
Role: Peer Review.
Peer Reviewer.
10/2010 - 10/2010
Internal Service
- Executive Committee, Center for Latin American Studies.
member,
11/02/2020 - present.
University service.
- College Council.
Member,
05/01/2019 - present.
College service.
- Faculty Learning Community on Global and Intercultural Learning.
Member,
05/01/2019 - present.
University service.
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Art History.
Director,
05/01/2019 - 06/30/2022.
Department service.
- In charge of Art History Scholarship.
09/01/2017 - present.
Department service.
- Warnock Artist in Residency and Christensen Visiting Artist 2016-2019
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Chair,
08/31/2016 - 08/31/2019.
Department service.
- Executive Committee.
Member,
08/31/2016 - 08/31/2018.
Department service.
- Scholarship Review Committee IME-Becas.
Review,
10/2013 - present.
University service.
- Faculty Search Committee, Spanish and Portuguese.
committee member,
10/2012 - 04/2013.
University service.
- Director of Graduate Studies.
Director of Graduate Studies,
08/01/2012 - 08/31/2015.
Department service.
- Warnock Artist in Residence .
Committee Member,
10/2010 - 01/2012.
Department service.
- Early Modern Art Historian Search.
Committee Member,
10/2010 - 05/2011.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Murals Selection Committee at the UMFA .
07/14/2021 - 07/21/2021
- AP Art History Teacher Workshop on Global Art
.
12/07/2016 - 12/07/2016
- Mrinalini Tankha, Lecture on Cuban Art, Department of Art and Art History,
.
12/01/2016 - 12/05/2016
- Christopher Dunn, “Occupy Space: Experimental Art and Counterculture in Brazil, early 1970s,” Latin American Studies, University of Utah.
02/19/2016 - present
- Regina Galindo, Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah.
11/05/2014 - 11/05/2014
- Jesse Lerner.
02/11/2014 - 02/11/2014
- Ondine Chavoya, “Site and Performance: Exhibiting Asco" public lecture.
11/2012 - 11/2012
- Minerva Cuevas, “Research as Aesthetic Practice,” Department of Art and Art History. Organized artist lecture for Mexican centennial events.
03/08/2011 - 03/08/2011
- Ricardo Dominguez, “Anti-Anti Utopias: Digital Zapatismo and the New Imaginary,” Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah. Lecture that was open to the public.
12/2010 - present
- Rubén Gallo, “Remedios Varo and Plastic Surgery.” Department of Art and Art History, Univ. of Utah
.
10/2010 - present
- Amy Buono, public lecture: “Plumed Identities: Tupinambá Interculture.” Department of Art and Art History.
09/25/2010 - present
- Present and lead discussion for Sabina Berman’s film:
Entre Pancho Villa y Una Mujer Desnuda (1995), Main Library, Salt Lake City
.
09/2010 - 09/2010
- "Border Crossings and the Art of the de la Torre Brothers." Art Talk event at the Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah, April 2, 2010.
04/02/2010 - present
- “Patterns in Mexican Art.” Keynote lecture for the Evening for Educators: Mexican Art event at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 10, 2010.
03/10/2010 - present
Outreach
- Moderator, panel on “Public and Visual Art” Utah Presents, part of the series Artists Elevated: Discussing Equity and Creativity in the Mountain West.
01/27/2021 - 01/27/2021
- Artes de Mexico, an interdisciplinary community group devoted to the promotion of Mexican Art in Salt Lake City. I am a board member.
11/2010 - present
Honors & Awards
- Political Affinities: Artistic Circuits between the GDR and Latin America,.
Faculty Small Grant Program (FSGP) Award,
01/03/2022
- Fellowship to work with a research group on the project Global GDR about ties between East German and Latin America.
Technical University Dresden, Visiting Fellowship ,
10/05/2020
- Learn German in Germany Grant.
DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst ,
04/01/2019
- Grant for conducting research on Middle Eastern and Islamic Art for my course on Globalization and Art.
Global Learning Across Disciplines Grant, Office for Global Engagement,
04/01/2019
- Research grant for summer travel to Brazil.
URC,
04/01/2018
- Faculty Fellow .
College of Fine Arts University of Utah,
03/01/2018
- Grant from the Dean's office to allow me to take students on a field trip to Los Angeles in October to visit exhibits from PST.
Dean's Award for Student Excellence,
10/01/2017
- Center for Latin American Studies Research Travel Award .
Latin American Studies,
12/15/2016
- Fund research travel.
Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Fellow Award,
02/23/2015
- Fund research travel for course on Latin American video art.
University Teaching Grant,
04/30/2014
- Travel Research Grant.
University Research Council,
04/2013
- Faculty Excellence Award in Research .
University of Utah,
10/2012
- Visiting Scholar affiliation.
Getty Research Institute,
06/2011
- Library Research Grant.
UCLA Latin American Studies,
06/2011
- International and Area Studies Fellowship.
American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS/SSRC/NEH,
02/24/2011
- Proposal to teach: “Utopia and Dystopia: Brazilian Art and Culture in a Latin American Context”
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Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant,
11/2009
- Grant to go to College Art Association.
Departmental Travel Fund,
09/2009
- International Studies Program Development Grant .
University of Utah, International Study Abroad Center,
04/2009
In the Media
- Interview posted for Global GDR Networks. 06/24/2022.
https://artinnetworks.webspace.tu-dresden.de/en/be...
- Interview given to newspaper at Technical University in Dresden. 06/07/2021.
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/der-bereich/news/tu-dres...
- Review of my book Art Systems:
Stewart, D. (2020). Transnational
Exchanges in Latin American Art, Literature, and Visual
Culture. Latin American Research Review, 55(3), 621–
630. DOI: http://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1067. 09/08/2020.
http://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1067
- Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 1, Number 3, pp. 110–111
Review of my book. 07/01/2019.
https://lalvc.ucpress.edu/content/1/3/110
- Paula Kupfer, ASAP Journal, Sep 6, 2018
Review of my exhibit. 09/06/2018.
http://asapjournal.com/video-art-in-latin-america-...
- Mari Carmen Ramirez, Art Nexus, no 108, March/May 2018, 40-45. Review of my exhibit. 03/01/2018.
- Interview with cultural critic Ana Paula Rosales Puentes podcast in Mexico City. 12/31/2017.
http://www.puentes.me/episodio/mapa/120
- Program about Video Art in Latin America on Métropolis, TVE, Spanish Television, December 2017. 12/17/2017.
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/metropolis/metr...
- Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2017, exhibition review of Video Art in Latin America. 10/18/2017.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm...
- Exhibition Review Alejandra Villasmil, ARTISHOCK: Revista de arte contemporáneo, September 2017. 09/01/2017.
- Michael J. "How Pacific Standard Time celebrates our unique “LA/LA” land," Timeout. 08/29/2017.
- GWYNEDD STUART "A Sneak Peek at the Experimental Latin American Video Art Coming to PST: LA/LA"
. 08/28/2017.
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-drug-ritual-is-flip...
- Jori Finkel, The Art Newspaper Review, no. 292, July/August 2017 pp. 1-6.
Interviewed Elena Shtromberg about Pacific Standard Time exhibits. 08/25/2017.
- Feature of curator Elena Shtromberg interviewed by Tulsa Kinney, Artillery, Reconnoiter, July 2017: . 07/01/2017.
http://artillerymag.com/reconnoiter-13/
- The Art Newspaper discussion of Brazilian video art. 11/01/2016.
http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/rubells-put-400...
- 89.3 KPCC program about the Getty initiative, includes information about Latin American video art exhibit. 03/30/2016.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2016/03/30/...
- Review of exhibition at UMOCA on artist Yoshua Okón. 02/17/2016.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865647074/Utah-...
- art blog. 06/07/2015.
http://theartminion.com/2015/06/10/recent-video-fr...
- LA Times, Carolina Miranda, "Why you need to see the Getty's collection of video art from Latin America". 06/02/2015.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/...
- Studio '15, Magazine of the College of Fine Arts. 02/01/2015.
http://www.finearts.utah.edu/news/studio-magazine
- coverage of In Motion: Borders and Migrations exhibit. 08/29/2014.
http://www.visitsaltlake.com/includes/calendar-of-...
- coverage of In Motion: Borders and Migrations. 07/01/2014.
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/in-motion-borders-a...
- KUED coverage of In Motion: Borders and Migrations. 05/21/2014.
http://video.kued.org/video/2365251784/
- Coverage of exhibition, In Motion: Borders and Migrations. 05/07/2014.
http://bang.transreal.org/umoca-presents-tbt-in-in...
- Press release and press for exhibition organized, In Motion: Borders and Migrations. 05/01/2014.
http://www.utahmoca.org/portfolio/in-motion/
- Twitter coverage of journalist Lydia Cacho's visit to class on Border Art. 02/16/2012.
- http://interactive2010.journalism.cuny.edu/2010/05/21/art-of-the-u-s-mexico-border/
Interview with journalist Vivian Doskow about U.S./Mexico Border Art. 05/21/2010.