Dawna Schuld
Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art HistoryBiography
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.
Education
Ph.D. Art History
The University of Chicago-Chicago
IL
2009
M.A. Humanities
The University of Chicago
Chicago
IL
1999
B.A. Fine Art
Calvin College – Grand Rapids
MI
1985
Scholarly Interests
My research focuses on the intersections between art, technology, and the sciences, with an emphasis on how the phenomena of perception are implemented as artistic media. Recent publications include “Minimal Conditions: Light, Space, and Subjectivity” (University of California Press, 2018) and “Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art,” co-edited with Cristina Albu (Routledge, 2018)