Joshua L. Gomez
PIF Fellow
About
Joshua L. Gomez is a Ph.D. student in Art History at UIC, focusing on Mexican visual culture from the 19th century. Through postcolonial feminist methodologies, his research investigates visualizations of race, gender, and class through representations of labor and social deviance relating to empire-building and notions of ungovernability. He was previously the 2022-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the National Mexican Art Museum and has published work in Hyperallergic and The Latinx Project. Most recently, his essay titled, Visualizing Invisible Labor: Constructing Space through Women’s Devotional Practices was published by the NMSU art museum for the traveling exhibition Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium catalog.