Erin Devine
Instructor of Art History and Art Department Chair
(434) 395-2291
devineec@longwood.edu
Erin Devine is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University studying Contemporary Art. Her dissertation, Transgressing Boundary: Middle Eastern Women & Their Art From the U.S., investigates the relationship between postcolonial discourse and theories of transnational feminism against the transgressive potentials of women artists such as Shirin Neshat, Lida Abdul, Emily Jacir, and Sigalit Landau, who speak to political conditions of the Middle East from a Western perspective. A recent article, Marginalization as Use: Race & Gender in the Work of Yoko Ono, was published in the International Journal of the Arts in Society and she has presented a number of works on race, gender, and postcolonial issues in contemporary art at conferences in the U.S.
Before moving to Bloomington to attend graduate school and work as the Curatorial Associate for the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Erin was active in the art scene in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. As a gallery owner and as Exhibitions Manager for the Louisville Visual Art Association, she was President of LOOK, the professional consortium of art museums and galleries in the greater Louisville area, and served appointments on two mayoral committees for public art and architecture. She has juried numerous exhibits and competitions throughout the midwest, while also exhibiting her own work in painting, photography, installation, and performance both regionally and internationally.