Picturing the Americas International Symposium

Sara Angel | Art Canada Institute & University of Toronto

Sara Angel is the founder and Executive Director of the Art Canada Institute/Institut de l’art du Canada, a research organization based at the University of Toronto dedicated to the education and promotion of Canadian art history. She holds a Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship, the most prestigious award of its kind in Canada, given for innovative ideas that will help solve issues of critical importance to Canadians. A leading visual arts journalist and a recognized authority on visual culture, Angel has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada. Her academic writing has appeared in the Journal for Canadian Art History, Leonardo: The Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and Regarding the Popular: High and Low Culture in the Avant-Garde and Modernism (Walter de Gruyter Gmbh & co. KG).

Pablo Diener | Universidade Federal do Matto Grosso, Brazil

Pablo Diener received his PhD in Art History from the University of Zurich and is currently a professor in the History Department at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, in Brazil. His main research interest is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artistic and scientific expeditions to the Americas. He is the author of a catalogue on the work of Johann Moritz Rugendas and has written several monographic studies about Alexander von Humboldt. He has published about the legacies of C.F.Ph. von Martius, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, and G.H. von Langsdorff in Brazil, and of Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, the Baron de Courcy, and Carl Nebel in Mexico, and organized exhibitions on these subjects in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Spain, and Germany. His recent publications include Un Brasil para Martius (Rio de Janeiro, 2012), Rugendas e o Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 2012), and Os Bastidores da Expedição Langsdorff (Cuiabá, 2014), which were coauthored with Maria de Fátima Costa.

Alberto Nulman Magidin | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Alberto Nulman Magidin is a Mexican art historian and filmmaker. His research interests are centered on the relationship between art and science, the theories and practices of landscape between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, and nineteenth-century Mexican painting.

He has focused his work as a filmmaker on directing and screenwriting documentaries and television series, and has designed audiovisual and multimedia content for museums and exhibitions. He has participated in over twenty museum projects in Mexico and Central America, and has directed several television series and a dozen of documentaries on art history, science, cultural history, and social and environmental issues, that have been exhibited worldwide. Currently, he is a professor of Art History at his alma mater, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, serves on the board of the Spanish Association of Scientific Film and Image (ASECIC), and is a member of the Mexican National System of Art Creators (SNCA).

Valéria Piccoli | Chief Curator, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

Valéria Piccoli holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Brazilian Art History from the University of São Paulo. Piccoli was a curatorial assistant at the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo and worked as Assistant Curator at the private collection of Fundação Estudar. Since 2007, Piccoli has been part of the curatorial team at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and she has curated many exhibitions focused on the museum’s collection. Piccoli was the coordinator of the new installation of Pinacoteca’s collection, Arte no Brasil: uma história na Pinacoteca de São Paulo (Art in Brazil: a story at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2011). She has been Chief Curator at Pinacoteca since 2012 and has collaborated on international exhibition projects such as Terra Brasilis, part of the Europalia Brésil show held in Brussels in 2011.

Jennifer Raab | Yale University, USA

Jennifer Raab is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University where she teaches courses in American art and the history of photography. Her first book, Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail, will be published in Fall 2015. Recent publications have considered history painting and the aesthetics of mapping, the visual culture of the American Civil War, and Dan Flavin’s collection of nineteenth-century drawings. Her current project examines the photograph as relic. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and has also held fellowships at the John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Dumbarton Oaks; and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Georgiana Uhlyarik | Associate Curator of Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Georgiana Uhlyarik is Associate Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Her recent curatorial projects include Introducing Suzy Lake; The Passion of Kathleen Munn; Betty Goodwin: Work Notes; and Michael Snow: Objects of Vision. She is co-curator of the touring exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, and co-editor of the accompanying publication. Uhlyarik is the editor of Introducing Suzy Lake (Black Dog Publishing, 2014), author of Kathleen Munn: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014), contributor to Barbara Astman: I as Artifact (University of Western Ontario, 2014), among other publications. She received her MA in Art History at York University, Toronto, where she is now Adjunct faculty. Uhlyarik serves on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Art Museum Curators. Originally from Romania, she lives in Toronto with her twin sons.

Peter John Brownlee | Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, USA

Peter John Brownlee is curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago. He earned a PhD in American Studies at the George Washington University. His articles have appeared in American Art and the Journal of the Early Republic and he has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues. He was organizing curator of Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention and editor of the exhibition’s multi-author catalogue. Brownlee was co-organizing curator of Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, a collaboration with the Newberry Library. The exhibition’s catalogue was awarded a PROSE award by the Association of American Publishers.

Edward J. Sullivan | Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History, New York University. He is the author of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogues concerning art from the colonial era to the present in the Spanish-, Portuguese- and French-speaking regions of the Americas.

His recent publications include ‘The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas’ (Yale University Press, 2007) and ‘From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism’ (Yale University Press, 2014 – whose publication was supported in part by a grant from the Terra Foundation). Sullivan is also the co-curator of the current exhibition “Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and his Transatlantic World” currently on view at the Blanton Museum, Austin. It will be seen as of October 2 at The Brooklyn Museum before its final venue, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan (January, 2016).

Ruth B. Phillips | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Ruth B. Phillips holds a Canada Research Chair and is Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research focuses on the indigenous arts of North America and critical museology. Her books include Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums (2011) and Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast (1998). With co-author Janet Catherine Berlo she has recently published the expanded second edition of Native North American Art for Oxford University Press. Phillips has served as Director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and President of CIHA, the International Committee on the History of Art. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Regina Teixeira de Barros | Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Regina Teixeira de Barros is a Senior Curator at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, where she has been working since 2003. Among the exhibitions she curated are Tarsila viajante [Travelling Tarsila], Willys de Castro, Art in Brazil: a Story of Modernism at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo (long-term exhibition), and Constructive Art at the Pinacoteca. She has contributed essays in a number of exhibition catalogues, and between 2006 and 2008 coordinated the research team and edition of the Catalog Raisonné Tarsila do Amaral. She is currently researching Pop Art in Brazil. De Barrow holds a master’s degree in Art History from the University of São Paulo and specializes in twentieth-century art, with a focus on Brazilian Modernism. She teaches courses on modern art and museum studies at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, in São Paulo, since 2002.

Ivo Mesquita | Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

Ivo Mesquita has been the Artistic Director Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo since May 2012 and was chief curator at the same institution between 2006 and 2012. He was researcher and assistant curator at the São Paulo Biennial Foundation for eight years, co-curator of the 20th and 24th Bienal de São Paulo and chief curator of the 28th. He was visiting professor for eleven years at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in New York, and Director of the Museum of Modern Art in 1999. As an independent curator, he has contributed to projects for various international institutions and was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 1999 and 2009 Venice biennales and one of the curators of the binational InSite’97 and 2000 projects, in Tijuana, Mexico.

Picturing the Americas Travel Stipends

The Terra Foundation for American Art has generously sponsored a limited number of travel stipends available to cover the cost of travel to and from Bentonville for this event.