Education
BA, Art History, California State University, Long Beach
MA, Art History, University of Utah
Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary Brazilian art
- Video, performance, and installation art
- Artistic collaborations + networks
- Experimental pedagogy + art institutions
- Politics of Space
- Queer + Postcolonial theory
Bio
Jennifer Sales is a Doctoral candidate in UT Austin’s art history department and Center for Latin American Visual Studies. Her dissertation observes the expansion of social identities and artistic spaces for experimental art in 1970s Brazil. As the Blanton Museum’s 2020–2021 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latin American art, she organized an online conversation with pioneer Brazilian artist Regina Vater, whose work draws inspiration from Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous cosmologies. Previously, she has held research and curatorial positions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.