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College / Department

College of Architecture, Art and Design
Department of Art and Design

Teaching areas

History of Art, Architecture, and Design; Critical Theory; Contemporary Art; Curation

Research areas

Visual Culture of Europe, Russia, Soviet Eurasia, 1850-present; Decolonial Theory; Cold War-era Cultures and Geopolitics; Soviet-Arab Cultural Exchanges; Global Modernisms; Memory and Trauma in the Built Environment

Education

PhD, History And Theory Of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, 2022
MA, History Of Art And Architecture, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, 2012
BA, History Of Art, Psychology, Amherst College, 2007

Memberships

Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, ASEEES, International, 2017 - 2023
Global Architectural Collaborative, GAC, International, 2017 - 2023
College Art Association, CAA, International, 2016 - 2023

Contact

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Dr. Christianna Bonin

Assistant Professor
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Dr. Christianna Bonin is an art educator, writer, and curator. She has nearly two decades of experience working with and advising art and academic institutions, artists, and galleries. Her scholarship focuses on visual art practices from the mid nineteenth century to the present, in particular interactions between Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Her current projects revolve around cultural politics and art's relationship to theories and expressions of identity. She is completing her first book, Soviet Orient: Art and Empire in Central Asia, 1900-75.

Publications

Christianna Bonin. Soviet Materialities, co-edited with Mollie Arbuthnot and Gabriella Ferrari, Manchester University Press, forthcoming
Christianna Bonin. Not Forever: 1968-1985, Caa Reviews, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023
Christianna Bonin. Ekaterina Muromtseva: Difference in Time,” XL Gallery, Moscow, Artforum Magazine, 2022
Christianna Bonin. Manal Aldowayan: Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, Artforum, 2022
Christianna Bonin. “The Art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or How to Make a Portrait from a Skull,” Central Asian Survey, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2021. doi: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1863912, 2021
Christianna Bonin. “Yayoi Kusama,” Oracles: Artists’ Calling Cards, ed. Pierre Leguillon, Barbara Fédier (Edition Patrick Frey, 2017), 225-228, 2017
Christianna Bonin. “Between Wall and Paper: Rethinking Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings,” Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid, ed. Charles W. Haxthausen (WCMA Press, 2012), 24-37. New York Book Award 2013 Recipient, Scholarly Publication, 2012

Conference Presentations

“By Drawing a Cloud”: Mongolian Zurag Painting as Post-Imperial Modernity, Unfinished Empire: Visual Art And Architecture In Post-imperial Contexts 1900-2022, 19 May 2023
Central Asia: A Crossroads, Central Asia In The Curriculum, 10 April 2023

Awards and Honors

International Faculty Course Development Fellowship, United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education, 2024
Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, June 2023
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Writing Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
German Historical Institute/Max Weber Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship, Moscow, 2018
Fulbright Research Grant, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016

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