University of Utah Art History Program

08/12/2019

Gearing up for the start of the semester? Check out these fantastic Art History course offerings that you may have missed: The Dutch Golden Age, Art & Social Conflict in the USA, and Modernism 1940-1970. Also help us welcome Virginia Solomon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History for 2019-20! You can read about their background and interests here: https://utaharthistory.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/2019-20-visiting-assistant-professor-in-art-history-virginia-solomon/

05/01/2019

Congratulations to Kiki, and all of our graduating seniors!

Here they are! The College of Fine Arts 2019 Outstanding Seniors. Each year, an outstanding senior from each of the academic...

03/13/2019

Congratulations to Laura Hurtado!

Former M.A. graduate of the Department of Art and History, Laura Allred Hurtado has just been named Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). Laura earned her M.A. in Art H…

01/06/2019

Congratulations to M.A. graduate Maggie Adams on her recent review in Hyperallergic!

Art History M.A. graduate Margaret Adams recently published a review of the 33rd art biennial in São Paulo, Brazil. Adams completed her M.A. in Art History at the University of Utah in 2017, with t…

12/27/2018

RIP, Sister Wendy

She interrupted a cloistered life of prayer in England and soared to international stardom as one of the most improbable art critics in television history.

09/28/2018

Congratulations to Art History M.A. candidate Mariko Azuma!

Congratulations to Art History M.A. candidate Mariko Azuma, who recently defended her MA thesis “Authenticity, Preservation, and the Transnational Identity of Space: Comparing Yin Yu Tang and the L…

09/10/2018

Congratulations to art history M.A. students Emily Citino and Chandler Keeling on their FLAS awards!

Art History M.A. student Emily Citino was one of five graduate students at the University of Utah to have received the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Award for the 20…

06/20/2018

An art historical breakdown of the Apesh*t video and its precedents:

Here's what you should know

06/07/2018

Always good to go to Spiral Jetty, especially with the new U President, Ruth Watkins
w/ Monty Paret and Gretchen Dietrich

06/04/2018

Elizabeth Peterson is retiring, read about her scholarly work and leadership!

After twenty-six years as a dedicated and highly valued teacher, scholar and colleague in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah, Associate Professor of Art History Eliza…

04/02/2018

From LA to London, check out what the art history faculty has been up to this spring.

Art History faculty are presenting in the US and abroad! Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Hollenberg presented “Regionalism and Decolonization at the United Nations, 1952-1970” at the…