Join us to celebrate our graduating Studio Art seniors of Spring 2023 in an exhibition of their ARTS 500 seminar works!
Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our outstanding students in the Department of Art and Art History! Each student will be giving a brief presentation of their Honors and Allcott Travel awards work in the past year. Refreshments will be served.
The Department of Art and Art History and the Carolina Asia Center of UNC-Chapel Hill are proud to welcome Soni Kum as a Hanes Visiting Artist in Fall 2023. Soni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third-generation Korean.
Antoine Williams (MFA alumnus) is an interdisciplinary artist who is heavily influenced by speculative fiction, critical Black studies and his working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina. His practice utilizes critical studies and the surreal to explore ways in which Black physical, mental, and emotional states of being exist within and subvert the status-quo.
Central themes in Shimoyama's practice stem from his personal perspective on and experience with the Black queer male body. By asserting vibrant queer bodies in his works, he acknowledges the political aspects of being queer in this society.
Xeuwu Zheng examines history and contemporary experiences in a very personal way and thinks about the cultural relationships between the East and the West. He integrates philosophy, religion, and everyday reflections into his art, opening the language gap between Eastern and Western cultures and paying attention to the relationship between humans, nature, and modern civilization
Sandra Moterroso considers herself a multimedia artist because she works in different media, however something is always present in all her artistic practice "performance"; the action of placing the “body” in a conscious state in relation to other media in such a way that her concerns and negotiations about the body-political-body-identity-racialized woman body, a woman who recognizes her ancestral history and takes it to the contemporary space through art.
The UNC Department of Art and Art History is currently accepting submissions for the 2023-24 Penland Undergraduate Studio Art Scholarships. Studio Art Majors and Minors are eligible to apply!
The UNC Department of Art and Art History is currently accepting submissions for the 2023-24 Undergraduate Studio Art Scholarships. Studio Art Majors and Minors are eligible to apply!
Please join us for a pop-up exhibition featuring works from the fall 2023 ARTS/BIOL 409 H/L class. ONE EVENING ONLY! Refreshments will be served.
