Notes About Contributors
Catherine Lennartz is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her research explores the intersection of exhibitions and memorials, memory-focused art, and remembrance, especially as they relate to human rights violations and Indigenous issues.
William Chaudoin holds a BA in Italian from Vassar College and an MA in Art History from the George Washington University, where his research focused on the early modern period in southern Italy. His scholarship explores the ways art and architecture served as mediums of devotion and social influence.
Gillian Yee (they/them) is a second-year PhD student at Temple University specializing in global contemporary art history from 1980 to the present. Their goal as a scholar is to explore the realm of queerness, transness, and “non-normative” identities within art practices, thereby circumventing a traditional canonical understanding of the discipline.
Hamin Kim (she/her) is a PhD student at Boston University whose research centers on modernization and globalization in Korean art from the 20th century onwards, with particular emphasis on Korea’s cultural exchange with Japan and the United States and the history of performance in Korea.
Sayak Mitra (b. 1984, West Bengal) is an Indian artist working across traditional and contemporary new media art. His work addresses power, displacement, social injustice, and class issues through paintings, photographs, and installations. He graduated with a B.Tech from WBUT (2008) and an MFA in Painting from Boston University (2024). Sayak co-founded Artist-collective Ocular in 2006 and has exhibited globally, winning awards like the Hugh and Marjorie Petersen Award for Public Art and the Atul Bose Award for Painting.
Elaigha Vilaysane received her BA in Chinese Language and Literature and Art History from the George Washington University in May 2023. She has recently completed her master’s degree at SOAS, University of London in History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia with a concentration in Chinese studies.
Kendall Murphy is a first year master’s student at Tufts University. She has held a variety of roles that allowed her to connect the public with new art, including working for the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. She is interested in site-specific contemporary art and curation.