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Dawna Schuld

Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art HistoryCollege of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts
Contact Affiliations

Education

  • Ph.D. in Art HistoryThe University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2009
  • Master of Arts in HumanitiesThe University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1999
  • Bachelor of Arts in Fine ArtCalvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1985

Biography

Dr. Schuld’s research concentrates on points of intersection between art, technology, and biology, with an emphasis on how the perceptual phenomena of human experience are implemented in art. She is the author of Minimal Conditions: Light, Space, and Subjectivity (The University of California Press, 2018), and co-editor (with Cristina Albu) of Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2018). She was the 2019-2020 Dana and David Dornsife Research Fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.

Scholarly Interests

  • Art, technology, and the sciences, with an emphasis on how the phenomena of perception are implemented as artistic media.