UNC-CH Art and Art History

100 Hamilton Hall River Claure is a Bolivian photographer and visual artist known for his meticulously crafted portraits and evocative landscapes. His work challenges dominant notions of cultural identity and examines the role of photographic images in shaping our perception of reality. His work has been exhibited in various platforms and institutions worldwide. In 2024,... Read More →

Sit! Dog Portraiture and the Animal Self in Eighteenth-Century France University Room, Hyde Hall To a twenty-first century viewer, nothing could be more natural than wanting a portrait (or many portraits) of your dog. But in eighteenth-century France, animal portraiture was a recent invention, and one that overturned artistic and species hierarchies. Despite, or maybe... Read More →

100 Hamilton Hall Yvette Mayorga (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist known for her Rococo-inspired reliefs that merge confectionery labor with found images to explore themes of belonging. Dominated by the color pink, Mayorga celebrates femme power while questioning the allure of consumer culture and the American Dream as a first-generation Latinx. Mayorga holds... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center Marilyn Boror Bor (Guatemala, 1984) is an artist, independent curator, lecturer, and Maya-Kaqchikel cultural manager. Recognized for her socially engaged practice, she works on identity, memory, colonialism, and cultural resistance. She has participated in biennials such as the Aichi Triennale (Japan), the Leandre Cristòfol Biennial (Barcelona), the São Paulo Biennial, the... Read More →

“Like the Dawn of Creation: Byzantine Fragments in the Modern Imagination” 125 Chapman Hall This talk explores how Byzantium operates as a queer cipher in modern culture, appearing as an adjectival modifier, “the Byzantine,” rather than as a distinct historical referent. Analyzing Gore Vidal’s 1959 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly, Last Summer, Betancourt demonstrates how... Read More →

Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self- documents discarded after having fulfilled their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and... Read More →

Born in 1969 in New Orleans, Matthew Sontheimer received a B.F.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and an M.F.A. from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. He has had solo gallery exhibitions in New York at DCKT Contemporary and Achim Moeller Fine Art; in Houston at the Hiram Butler Gallery, the Sally... Read More →

100 Hamilton Hall Jes Fan’s interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of biology and identity, incorporating living matter, as well as invisible substances like melanin and hormones, that shape how we experience the world into their sculptures. Through this process, Fan looks at how these highly politicized materials form our understanding of the social constructs of... Read More →

Art, Health, Equity Series “Access, Activism, and Aesthetic Revision: Crip Methods for Art History” 125 Chapman Hall This talk brings together the core arguments of The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique (2024), Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism (2025), and Rehabilitating the Asylum: Mental Health Justice and Contemporary Art (2027) to demonstrate... Read More →

100 Hamilton Hall Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics of identity, double consciousness, colonization, migration, "the other," and futurism through socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His practice spans community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture. Jiménez-Flores holds an MFA in Drawing from... Read More →