Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Institute of Fine Arts
Sean Nesselrode is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, and he specializes in modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Research interests include peripheral modernities, narratives and counter-narratives of progress, and the politics of abstraction. He earned his BA in Art History and English Literature at Swarthmore College and his MA in the History of Art and Archaeology from New York University. His dissertation examines the artistic development of Venezuelan modernism(s) through the lens of petroleum as a real and imagined source of progress. His writings have been published in Caiana: Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, ICAA Documents Project Working Papers, and Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas (forthcoming).