About Amy Pederson Converse
MICRO-BIO
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Dr. Amy Pederson Converse recieved her Ph.D in Contemporary Art History and Critical Theory from the University of California, Los Angeles under the joint supervision of artist and theorist Mary Kelly and Art Historian Dr. Cecile Whiting in 2006. He...More
Dr. Amy Pederson Converse recieved her Ph.D in Contemporary Art History and Critical Theory from the University of California, Los Angeles under the joint supervision of artist and theorist Mary Kelly and Art Historian Dr. Cecile Whiting in 2006. Her doctoral thesis entailed a joint investigation of mid-century Modernist painting and art criticism, and Golden Age superhero comics from the same period. She is the author of a diverse group of essays covering topics such as social practice, political violence, Relational Aesthetics, and Contemporary Chinese Art; major monographic texts on the Mexican artist Joaquin Segura; and she is currently writing and editing a forthcoming collection of essays on Utopias in Los Angeles for the California Institute of the Arts-based journal East of Borneo (www.eastofborneo.org). Her research interests include Latin American art, feminism, pirates, cannibalism, zombies, circus sideshows, Colonialism, anthropology, and the history of Los Angeles. Dr. Pederson Converse is currently Professor and Department Coordinator of Art History at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA. She is also an independent curator. Her solo projects include La Quebradora: Lucha Libre in Contemporary Mexican Art at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco (2012); Beasts, a radical feminist exhibition, performance, and dinner at Mack Sennet Studios in Los Angeles (2014); Punk Povera at WUHO Gallery in Hollywood (2016); Chess: Game, Theory & Play (forthcoming 2019); and Black Gold: Los Angeles Utopias (forthcoming 2019). Together with Ed Gomez and Luis G. Hernandez, she has been a co-curator of the MexiCali Biennial exhibition project (www.mexicalibiennial.org) since 2007.
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EXPERIENCE
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Woodbury University
- Professor and Department Coordinator
- Art History
- July 2006 to Present
EDUCATION
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University of California Los Angeles
- Ph.D
- September 2000 to September 2006
During my PhD studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, the majority of my coursework was also divided between the Art and Art History departments. This double pursuit of aesthetic production and historical research and analysis underpinned my formative academic training, and has contributed much to my teaching methodology as well.
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University of British Columbia
- MA
- September 1998 to August 2000
I undertook my Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in the joint Art History/Studio Art program at the University of British Columbia.
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University of British Columbia
- BA
- September 1996 to May 1998
I undertook my Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in the joint Art History/Studio Art program at the University of British Columbia.
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