Joanna Inglot

Joanna Inglot is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art, within global and transnational contexts. She is the recipient of numerous national and international grants and awards, including the Fulbright Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Exchanges Commission Grant (IREX), the National Endowment of the Humanities, and most recently the Faculty Exceptional Performance Award (2022-23) and the Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership Grant in the Humanities (2024-25).

Dr. Inglot writes and lectures extensively on contemporary art, focusing on themes such as the intersection of art and gender politics, transcultural dialogues, and historical memory. Her notable publications include two books: The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths (University of California Press, 2004), which examines Abakanowicz’s work in the context of communist Poland; and WARM: Feminist Art Movement in Minnesota, 1970s-1990s (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), a comprehensive analysis of the feminist art collective–the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM–and its pivotal role in feminist art history. She is currently editing a volume New Perspectives on Abakanowicz, stemming from the symposium she directed at Tate Modern (2024), and working on a book Feminism on Trial: Gender, Art, and Politics in the Post-Communist World.

Her recent publications further highlight her diverse expertise in the field, including: “Who is Afraid of Natalia LL? The Dangers and Pleasures of Feminist Art in Communist Poland” (Routledge Press, 2021); “The Alchemy of the Word: Harriet Bart’s Abracadabra Universe” (University of Minnesota Press, 2020); “Feminism on Trial: Gender, Art, and Politics in Post-Communist Poland” (The Commercial Press, 2019); “Transcultural Dialogues in the Iranian Diaspora: Shirin Neshat and Parastou Forouhar” (2016); and “Flock: Abakanowicz’s Confrontations with History and Memory” (Muzeum Susch, 2024).

Dr. Inglot’s course offerings include:

Introduction to Art History II: From Renaissance to Modern
Modern Art
Contemporary Art & Theory
Globalization & Contemporary Art
History of Body and Performance Art
Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture
Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Art
Transnational Surrealism: Art, Photography, and Film
Pop Art International
Art History Methodologies