UNC-CH Art and Art History

“Reimagining Liberation: Visual Disobedience in Central American Art” Davie Hall room 112 In this lecture, Dr. Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she... Read More →

“Enacting Radical Futures Beyond Survival Mode, an artist talk by hazel batrezchavez” hazel batrezchavez is a brown queer artist and educator. Their textiles, performance, and sculptural works are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement. batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute... Read More →

100 Hamilton Hall Karyn Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, creates sculptures, installations, and public art. This year, Olivier will unveil a Philadelphia memorial, commemorating more than 5,000 African Americans buried at Bethel Burying Ground. Last year, she participated in the Whitney Biennial (NY, NY), La Trienal at El Museo del Barrio (NY,... Read More →

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 →