Joanna Inglot is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art, within global and transnational contexts. She is the recipient of numerous national and international grants and awards, including the Fulbright Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Exchanges Commission Grant (IREX), the National Endowment of the Humanities, and most recently the Faculty Exceptional Performance Award (2022-23) and the Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership Grant in the Humanities (2024-25).<\/p>\n
Dr. Inglot writes and lectures extensively on contemporary art, focusing on themes such as the intersection of art and gender politics, transcultural dialogues, and historical memory. Her notable publications include two books: The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths<\/em> (University of California Press, 2004), which examines Abakanowicz\u2019s work in the context of communist Poland; and WARM: Feminist Art Movement in Minnesota, 1970s-1990s<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), a comprehensive analysis of the feminist art collective–the Women\u2019s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM–and its pivotal role in feminist art history. She is currently editing a volume New Perspectives on Abakanowicz,<\/em> stemming from the symposium she directed at Tate Modern (2024), and working on a book Feminism on Trial: Gender, Art, and Politics in the Post-Communist World<\/em>.<\/p>\n Her recent publications further highlight her diverse expertise in the field, including: \u201cWho is Afraid of Natalia LL? The Dangers and Pleasures of Feminist Art in Communist Poland\u201d (Routledge Press, 2021); \u201cThe Alchemy of the Word: Harriet Bart\u2019s Abracadabra Universe\u201d (University of Minnesota Press, 2020); \u201cFeminism on Trial: Gender, Art, and Politics in Post-Communist Poland\u201d (The Commercial Press, 2019); \u201cTranscultural Dialogues in the Iranian Diaspora: Shirin Neshat and Parastou Forouhar\u201d (2016); and \u201cFlock: Abakanowicz\u2019s Confrontations with History and Memory\u201d (Muzeum Susch, 2024).<\/p>\n Dr. Inglot\u2019s course offerings include:<\/p>\n Introduction to Art History II: From Renaissance to Modern
\nModern Art
\nContemporary Art & Theory
\nGlobalization & Contemporary Art
\nHistory of Body and Performance Art
\nGender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture
\nRace, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Art
\nTransnational Surrealism: Art, Photography, and Film
\nPop Art International
\nArt History Methodologies<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133,"template":"","class_list":["post-199","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/199\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}