C. Ondine Chavoya | |
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Born | Christopher L. Chavoya 1970 (age 54–55) United States |
Other names | Ondine Chavoya |
Occupation(s) | Art historian, scholar, independent curator, author, editor, educator |
Academic background | |
Education | University of California, Santa Cruz (BA), University of Rochester (MA, PhD) |
Thesis | Orphans of Modernism: Chicano Art, Public Representation, and Spatial Practice in Southern California (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Janet Wolff |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history,Queer studies,Latino studies,Chicano studies |
C. Ondine Chavoya (born 1970) is an American art historian,art curator,author,editor,and educator. [1] [2] [3] He is known for his work in Chicano/Latino and queer art history. Chavoya is the John D. Murchison Regents Professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). [4] [5] He was a co-editor of Chicano and Chicana Art:A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press,2019). [6]
Christopher L. Chavoya was born in 1970,in the United States, [7] and raised in Santa Ana. [8] He received a B.A. degree in 1992,from the University of California,Santa Cruz; [9] followed by a M.A. degree in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2002 in visual and cultural studies,from the University of Rochester. His dissertation was titled Orphans of Modernism:Chicano Art,Public Representation,and Spatial Practice in Southern California (2002),under doctoral advisor Janet Wolff. [10] [11]
Chavoya was professor of art history and Latinx studies at Williams College in Williamstown,Massachusetts from 2002 to 2022,where he founded the department. [12] [13] [14]
He is one of the 2023–2024 MoMA Scholars. [15]