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About The Book
Each essay in this groundbreaking volume—the first in an exciting new series from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts—engages aesthetic and cultural debates that situate research on the arts at the intersection of various disciplines, including architecture, film, literature, curatorial and museum studies, and the arts of performance. Reflecting the series’ goal to engage with different cultural contexts and time periods, newly commissioned essays from emerging and established scholars address subjects ranging from medieval dance and ancient Assyrian reliefs to expressions of gender embodiment and the art of the Afro-Atlantic. First-person narratives ground theoretical considerations of the theme.
About The Author
Glexis Novoa was born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1964, he grew up in Havana and received a bachelor’s degree from The National School of Art, Havana, in 1984 and a residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, in 1998. He lives in Miami since 1995; Novoa also works on site-specific wall-drawings and ephemeral projects anywhere around the world.
Since 1987, Glexis Novoa’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, featured in solo exhibitions and projects at: Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami; Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester; The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame; Cheekwood Museum, Nashville; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, among many others. Novoa’s works have been included in group exhibitions at institutions including: Today Art Museum, Beijing; Queens Museum, New York; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C .; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan; Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento; Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; Perez Art Museum Miami; Mediations Biennale, Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Exit Art, New York; City Art Museum Ljublana, Ljublana; The Bass Museum, Miami Beach; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana; The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, among many others.
Novoa has been honored with awards including: South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, Miami; Miami-Dade Individual Artists Grant Program, Miami; Creator Award Winner, Oolite Arts, Miami; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grant and he has been a recipient of the Cintas Fellowship Award. Novoa has held residencies at: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan; Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn; The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Residency, Tarrytown and McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, among others. Novoa’s works are held in the collections of prestigious institutions nationally and internationally, including: Adrastus, Arévalo, Spain; American Express, Minneapolis; Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida; Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem; Lowe Museum, Coral Gables; Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale; Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami; Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC., among others.
About The Editor
Kaira M. Cabañas (b. Hialeah, Florida) is associate dean for academic programs and publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Cabañas is the award-winning author of several volumes, including Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021), which received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award. Her previous work, Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art (2018), was recognized as a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Finally, her forthcoming book Deviant Art Histories: From Radical Psychiatry to Cultural Citizenship will be released by University of Chicago Press in February 2027.
About The Moderator
Gary Calcagno is associate projects manager at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. He manages academic programs & publications ranging from intimate study days to international collaborations. A scholar of Korean visual culture, he has also presented and published on Korean cinema, painting, and popular culture. He holds an M.A. from George Washington University and a B.A. from the University of California, Davis.
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