Art History, Theory, & Criticism Alumni
Alumni
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2024
Erica Cheung (Dual MA 2024) is the storytelling + digital coordinator at Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, as well as the administrative assistant at Johalla Projects.
Felipe Villada Ruiz (MAAH 2024) is the senior research associate, Latin America, at the Prints and Drawings Department at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maya Ortiz Saucedo (Dual MA 2024) is the 2024–2025 Andrew W. Mellon Permanent Collection curatorial assistant at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, and 2024–2024 Artist Resident at Chicago Art Department.
Samhita Sonti (MAAH 2024) is Cultural Oasis space coordinator as a part of SAIC’s DEI team.
2023
Kathyrn Cua (Dual MA 2023) is the curatorial assistant for the Asian American Art Initiative at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center.
Elissa Fertig (MAAH 2023) is the head registrar at Restoration Division LLC in Chicago.
Justice Henderson (Dual MA 2023) is the Romare Bearden Graduate Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Amanda Mendelsohn (MAAH 2023) is program coordinator for SAIC's Visiting Artist Program.
Alivé Piliado (Dual MA 2023) is a research associate of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Christina Stavros (MAAH 2023) is a registrar and curatorial assistant at the Intuit: the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
Blair Thomas (MAAH 2023) is founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Puppet Festival.
Gabriela Trinidad Pérez (Dual MA 2023) is the project coordinator for creative spaces at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kelly Pope (MAAH 2023) is programs coordinator at Steven Myron Holl Foundation's T Space.
Yilin Yang (MAAH 2023) is a curatorial assistant at the Art Institute of Chicago.
2022
Mariela Acuna (MAAH 2022) is the exhibitions and residency manager at Hyde Park Art Center.
Sophie Buchmueller (Dual MA 2022) is a director at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.
Heather Burich (MAHA 2022) is an appraisals supervisor at Hindman Auction House.
Elise Butterfield (Dual MA 2022) is the cultural affairs coordinator at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).
Rebecca Goodman (Dual MA 2022) is a program coordinator at Dumbarton Oaks.
Elsa Haarstad (MAAH 2022) is a Getty graduate intern in the Getty Conservation Institute's Building & Sites: Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.
Tess Haratonik (Dual MA 2022) is a program manager at United States Artist in Chicago.
Meagan Howard (MAAH 2022) is a curatorial administrative assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Emily Nagel (Dual MA 2022) is the associate director of individual giving at the Joffrey Ballet.
2021
Melanie Ball (MAAH 2021) is a PhD student in Architecture at UT Austin School of Architecture and a 2023 doctoral research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, QC).
Haley-Jane Blackstone (Dual MA 2021) is a registrar at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago.
Nicolay Duque-Robayo (Dual MA 2021) is a doctoral student in architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.
Rebecca Haley (Dual MA 2021) is the development coordinator at United States Artists.
Lasondra Kern (Dual MA 2021) is co-director of programs at Threewalls.
Jake Matthews (MAAH 2021) is working at Altman Siegel in San Francisco. Jake's essay, “Saltwater Dreams, Fragmented Visions: iPhone Aesthetics in the Karrabing Film Collective’s Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams” was published in Sequitur in January, 2022.
Denny Mwaura (MAAH 2021) is the public programs manager at Gallery 400, UIC and curator for the 2023–2024 HATCH residency program.
Lynette Qiuyang Shen (MAAH 2021) is a PhD student in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
2020
Gabrielle Christiansen (MAAH 2020) is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
Emily Crum (Dual MA 2020) is program coordinator at SAIC. She was previously a museum educator at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA.
Jenny Dally (MAAH 2020) is the curatorial assistant, Painting + Sculpture at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was previously the curatorial assistant for Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Graham Feyl (MAAH 2020) is a PhD student in Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Chenghan Gao (MAAH 2020) is a PhD student in Chinese Art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kate Hanley (Dual MA 2020) is special event coordinator at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Tess Haratonik (Dual MA 2020) is initiatives coordinator at United States Artists.
Sophie Jenkins (Dual MA 2020) is a research associate at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Chava Krivchenia (MAAH 2020) is curatorial assistant at the John Michael Kohler Art Center.
Julia Kulon (MAAH 2020) is a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow and doctoral student in Slavic studies at the University of Chicago.
Lauren Makholm (Dual MA 2020) is associate director of Production and Manager of Digital Initiatives at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Whitney Mash (Dual MA 2020) is program coordinator at United States Artists.
Minh Nguyen (MAAH 2020) was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
Elizabeth N. Reed (MAAH 2020) is cataloguer for Furniture & Decorative Art at Hindman Auctions in Chicago.
Shannon Hebert Waldman (Dual MA 2020) is a staff member at Arcana Books on the Arts in Los Angeles.
2019
Lindsey Bell (Dual MA 2019) is the curatorial director of Bell Projects.
Budgie Birka-White (MAAH 2019) is the director at Rhona Hoffman Gallery and owner/curator of Extase.
Alden Burke (MAAH 2019) is a program coordinator at Design for America, lead organizer of The Chicago Arts Census, and co-founder of Annas.
Elise Cabral (MAAH 2019) is the Pre-Program Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation at the Balboa Art Conservation Center.
Madalen Claire Benson (MAAH 2019) is a PhD Student in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Stephanie Dvareckas (MAAH 2019) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and a Dodge Avenir Fellow at the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union at the Zimmerli Art Museum.
Danielle Eady (Dual MA 2019) is the head of residency and fellowship programs at Oak Spring Garden Foundation.
Susan Mackey (MAAH 2019) is the editor-at-large for the Carolinas at Burnaway.
Elliot Reichert (Dual MA 2019) is the curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, and contributing writer for Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail.
Yue Ren (MAAH 2019) is an in-house writer and editorial member for LEAP.
Carlos Salazar-Lermont (Dual MA 2019) is a Danforth Scholar at the Sam Fox School of Design and Arts’ MFA in Visual Arts program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Veronica Sesana Grajales (MAAH 2019) is curatorial assistant for Latin American & Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Isabel Servantez (MAAH 2019) is a Semmes Foundation curatorial intern at McNay Art Museum.
Celina Wu (Dual MA 2019) is exhibitions and licensing coordinator at Newfields.
Christine Stringer (MAAH 2019) is an engagement communications representative at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Xue Yang (Dual MA 2019) is an intern at California Lawyers for the Arts in Berkeley.
Jacob Zhicheng Zhang (MAAH 2019) is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto.
2018
Daisy Charles (MAAH 2018) is the director's assistant at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
Luna Goldberg (MAAH 2018) is education manager at Florida International University's Jewish Museum of Florida.
Makayla May (MAAH 2018) is curatorial assistant in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Jameson Paige (Dual MA 2018) is curator at Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Hannah Pivo (MAAH 2018) is a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University.
Gabe Wilson (Dual MA 2018) is the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
2017
Nour Ammari (MAAH 2017) is an adjunct professor at Dominican University.
Kat Buckley (MAAH 2017) is the director of Exhibitions and Outreach at the University of Southern Maine and a PhD student in Curating in the joint program put on by the University of Reading and Zurich University of the Arts.
Claire Frost (MAAH 2017) is the program coordinator at ArtSpan, San Francisco.
Lindsay Garbutt (MAAH 2017) is an associate editor of Poetry, and her essay "Case Studies" was recently published in As Seen: Exhibitions That Made Architecture and Design History.
Zoe Goldman (Dual MA 2017) is the podcast coordinator and assistant editor at Getty Publications, J. Getty Trust.
Lydia Gordon (Dual MA 2017) is an assistant curator at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Shang-Huei Liang (MAAH 2017) recently published “From Artwork to Art Documentation and Back Again: On Chen Chieh-Jen’s The Bianwen Book I” in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, vol. 16, no. 3 (2017): 37-50.
Natalia de Orellana (Dual MA 2017) is the Daniel W. Dietrich II Fellow in Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Hannah Pivo (MAAH 2017) is a PhD student, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.
Veronica Sesana (MAAH 2017) is curatorial assistant for Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Ian Gabriel Wilson (Dual MA 2017) is the curator of Exhibitions & Collections at Blowing Rock Art & History Museum in Blowing Rock, NC.
2016
Farah Aksoy (MAAH 2016) is a programmer at SALT.
Paula Calvo (MAAH 2016) is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Buenos Aires.
Frances Dorenbaum (MAAH 2016) is the Edith Gowin Curatorial Fellow in Photography at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Sabrina Greig (MAAH 2016) is the arts learning program officer at the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation.
Natalia Isabel De Orellana (Dual MA 2016) was the 2018 recipient of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Hilla Rebay International Fellowship.
Arthur Kolat (Dual MA 2016) is assistant director of Graduate Admissions at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering.
Aisha Muhammad (MAAH 2016) is a PhD candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Zeenat Nagree (Dual MA 2016) is an independent writer and curator based in Mumbai. In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition by Jahangir Jani at Clark House in Mumbai.
Miriam R. Ruiz (MAAH 2016) is the School and Community Programs manager at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Lara Schoorl (MAAH 2016) is the publicity manager at Green Lantern Press and Sector 2337, Chicago.
Veronica Sines (MAAH 2016) is the assistant to Andrea Rosen at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Annalise Christine Taylor (MAAH 2016) is a communications and exhibitions coordinator with ART WORKS Projects, Chicago.
Sarah Wheat (MAAH 2016) is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Michigan.
2015
Margaret Carrigan (MAAH 2015) is the assistant editor of Modern Painters magazine.
Catalina Carrizosa (Dual MA 2015) received a curatorial research grant from the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and she is working as a research assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Tie Jojima (Dual MA 2015) is a PhD candidate in Art History at Temple University.
Brian Leahy (MAAH 2015) is a PhD candidate in Art History at Northwestern University.
Yiqing Li (Dual MA 2015) is a PhD student in Art History at the University of California San Diego.
Olivia McManus (MAAH 2015) is associate director of the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
Alison Reilly (MAAH 2015) is the grants manager for Corporate & Foundation Relations at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.
Elisabeth Smith (Dual MA 2015) is a curatorial assistant at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Julie Warchol (MAAH 2015) is a curatorial associate at the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
2014
Meri Rose Ekberg (MAAH 2014) is assistant director of the Public History Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Raven Falquez Munsell (Dual MA 2014) published “Libertà al Cile: Alternative Media and Art as Information at the 1974 Venice Biennale,” in Art Journal 74, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 44-61.
Rachel Kupferman (MAAH 2014) is a PhD candidate in Art History at Bar Ilan University.
Raven Munsell (MAAH 2014) is an associate director and registrar at Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
Gan Uyeda (Dual MA 2014) is an independent curator and partner at François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles.
2013
Ionit Behar (MAAH 2013) is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Laura Bickford (Dual MA 2013) is exhibitions and special projects manager at Souls Run Deep Foundation, Atlanta.
Kate Brown (Dual MA 2013) is collections manager and registrar at CARL & MARILYNN THOMA ART FOUNDATION, Chicago.
Lee Colon (MAAH 2013) is a PhD candidate in Art History at Princeton University.
Robyn Farrell (MAAH 2013) is an associate curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mia Lopez (Dual MA 2013) is an assistant curator at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago.
Amelia Love (Dual MA 2013) is a coordinator at the Asian Art Museum & Gardner Center, Seattle Art Museum.
Leah Oren (Dual MA 2013) is assistant museum educator at the Seattle Art Museum.
Kate Pollasch (Dual MA 2013) is director of collections and curation at the University Club of Chicago.
Gibran Villalobos (Dual MA 2013) is a cultural liaison for the City of Chicago.
2012
Allison Glenn (Dual MA 2012) was a curator for the Counterpublic 2023 triennial in St. Louis, MO. She also curated the exhibition Promise, Witness, Remembrance at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, honoring Breonna Taylor.
Lauren Gendler (MAAH 2012) is an editor at the Getty Research Institute Publications, and managing editor of the Getty Research Journal.
Marcelina Guerrero (Dual MA 2012) is the senior exhibitions coordinator at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Hanna Yoo Jung (MAAH 2012) is a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art.
Maura Lucking (MAAH 2012) is a PhD candidate in Critical Theory in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Matthew Mullane (MAAH 2012) is an assistant professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Vipash Purichanont (Dual MA 2012) received a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge in 2015 from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Rebecca Schlossberg (Dual MA 2012) is the exhibition manager in the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Morgan Walsh (Dual MA 2012) is the director of operations at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York.
Rachel Wolff (Dual MA 2012) is an Audience Insight Analyst at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
2011
Beth Capper (Dual MA 2011) was a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of English & Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.
Jessica Cochrane (MAAH 2011) is the curator of a private collection.
Jennifer Gerow (MAAH 2011) is the assistant curator at BRIC Arts and Media, Brooklyn.
Alice Heeren (MAAH 2011) received a PhD in Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture at Southern Methodist University.
Amelia Ishmael (MAAH 2011) is an independent writer, curator, and artist in Chicago.
Joe Iverson (Dual MA 2011) is the production manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Paige Johnston (Dual MA 2011) is assistant director of public programs at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Ariel Pittman (Dual MA 2011) is a director of exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles.
Vipash Purichanont, (Dual MA 2011) was a part of the Singapore Biennale 2019 Curatorial Team.
Kelly Shindler (Dual MA 2011) is the executive director at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Jeanette Tremblay (MAAH 2011) is the school and studio manager at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
2010
Lana Beardslee (MAAH 2010) is the education and program manager at the Museum of Sonoma County.
Dorota Biczel (Dual MA 2010) is the executive director and curator at Houston Center for Photography.
Margaret Di Guilio (MAAH 2010) is director of development at the Nashville Public Education Foundation.
Bryce Dwyer (Dual MA 2010) is a project manager with the Getty Provenance Index and the Department of Digital Art History at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Gregory Harris (MAAH 2010) is assistant curator of photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Grace Murray (MAAH 2010) is head of programs, Public and Scholarly Engagement at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Katherine Pill (MAAH 2010) is assistant curator of Art after 1950 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Kyle Stoneman (MAAH 2010) has a PhD in Art History from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Greg Stuart (MAAH 2010) is a museum educator in adult learning at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Francesca Wilmott (Dual MA 2010) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2009
Steven Bridges (Dual MA 2009) is assistant curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University.
Corinna Kirsch (MAAH 2009) received her PhD in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University. She was a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute in spring 2022.
Anna Kryczka (MAAH 2009) received a PhD in Visual Studies in 2016 from the University of California at Irvine and is now an instructor in the Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena City College.
Charlotte Marra (Dual MA 2009) is director of Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
Roman Petruniak (Dual MA 2009) worked at the Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.
Michal Raz-Russo (Dual MA 2009) is the program director at the Gordon Parks Foundation.
Abigail Satinsky (Dual MA 2009) published “Movement Building for Beginners,” in Art Journal 74, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 50-66. The article won the 2015 Art Journal Award from the College Art Association.
Jessie Adams Stein (MAAH 2009) received a PhD in Design History in 2014 from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is now the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Whitney Tassie (MAAH 2009) is curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Eduardo Vivanco (MA 2009) is a lecturer in Art History at Stanford University, where he earned his PhD.
2008
Meg Onli (BFA 2008) is director and curator at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. Meg was previously a Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.