PhD Candidate; Twentieth-Century Art, Graduate Symposium Coordinator, GSHAAA
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Shannon Bewley is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University, having earned her MA in the same department in 2021. Her research focuses on the exhibition histories of women sculptors in the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. She draws on installation photographs, artist interviews, and institution archives to situate these artists’ careers within the professionalization of museum practice and the rise of alternative exhibition spaces.
Prior to entering Boston University, Bewley was the Provenance Research Fellow in the departments of American and European Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. She entered this position after a year as the Goodrich Intern and a Registrar’s Assistant. In 2017, she earned a B.A. in Art History and B.F.A. in Studio Art (Sculpture) from Auburn University.
Research Interests:
- Exhibition Histories
- 20th-Century Sculpture
- Public monuments
Dissertation in Progress:
“Earth Artists, Indigenous Earthworks, and Land Reclamation Sculpture from 1965 to 1985”
MA Paper:
“Mary Miss, Suzanne Harris, and Alice Aycock: Sculptors in ‘Crummy Spaces’”
2023-2024:
Graduate Symposium Coordinator, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
2022-2023:
Senior Editor, SEQUITUR
History of Art & Architecture Diversity & Inclusion Committee
2021-2022:
Forum co-Coordinator, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
Junior Editor, SEQUITUR
History of Art & Architecture Diversity & Inclusion Committee
2020-2021:
Co-President, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
2019-2020:
GSO Representative, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association