Research Interests
- 20th and 21st century art of the Americas (Mexico and the United States focus)
- Paintings/Drawings/Works on paper
- Surrealism
- Queer Eco-feminism
- Gender Theory
- Environmentalism and Animism
- Hybridity/Metamorphosis/Transformation
- Diaspora and Migration
- Spirituality and Ritual
- Temporality and Diachronic Thinking
Education
BA, Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
BA, Journalism, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bio
Chelsea Staub is a master’s student in the Art History department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current research focuses on the women Surrealists in Mexico and their impact on contemporary art, Queer Ecofeminist theory, and migration through space and time. Her research has received support from the E.D. Farmer Fellowship from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her academic studies have been supported by the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art Scholarship and the Linda and David Schele Chair in the Art and Writing of Mesoamerica Scholarship.
Chelsea received a dual bachelor’s degree in art history and journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a recipient of the Academic Excellence Award, nominated for the UMass Rising Researcher Award, and inducted into the Kappa Tau Alpha honor society. She previously held positions as an art history research assistant, as the Museum Education Intern at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, and as the Database and Membership Coordinator at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Chelsea is the 2025–2026 Williford Fellow at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin.