School of Art and Design Welcomes New Faculty Gillian Sneed

Sneed will join SDSU as an assistant professor starting fall 2021

by PSFA News Team

August 30, 2021

Gillian Sneed is joining the School of Art and Design as assistant professor of Art History this fall. Sneed received her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Prior to her arrival at SDSU, she completed a postdoctoral curatorial fellowship at the Ernesto de Sousa Center for Multidisciplinary Study (CEMES) in Lisbon, Portugal. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in art history at several universities and institutions including Brooklyn College, the City College of New York, The New School for Social Research, Pace University, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Sneed’s research broadly examines 20th and 21st century feminist art histories of the Americas, with a focus on Brazilian modern and contemporary art and transnational exchanges between Latin America and the United States. Her scholarship has addressed the intersecting genres of film, video, performance, conceptual and socially engaged art, and the gendered, sexual, and racial politics at play in these practices. Sneed published numerous articles and exhibition reviews and has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally. “I work to decolonize art historical curricula by emphasizing a global scope and the contributions of historically underrepresented artists and authors,” Sneed said. “In art history courses, this involves sustained focus on global regions and cultural viewpoints not traditionally taught in the histories of Western art.” At SDSU, Sneed will be teaching a range of undergraduate and graduate global art history and visual culture courses, including modern and contemporary art of the Americas.

Gillian Sneed can be reached at gsneed@sdsu.edu.

The content within this article has been edited by Lizbeth Persons.

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