Jess Ziegenfuss, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
department of art
New Mexico state UNIVERSITY
ABOUT
Dr. Ziegenfuss is a modern and contemporary art historian, visual studies scholar, and art critic teaching and working in New Mexico. Her scholarship explores the material and cultural life of objects, sites, and structures often on the borders of traditional art history. Topics at the center of her research include materiality, ecological art, vernacular art forms, and craft practices. In particular, her work critically examines the relationship between resource extraction, related industries (petrochemical, nuclear, mining), histories of slow violence, and the globalized art world. Additionally, she is an independent curator who has conducted many exhibition projects in association with modern and contemporary collections of photography, art, and ephemera. Her book project continues her research on synthetics in the art of Eva Hesse. |
EDUCATION
PH.D., VISUAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE (2021)
M.A., WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (2013)
B.A., Women's studies and history of art, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (2009)
Publications
"New Mexico's Vernacular Collections." Special Issue: New Mexico Field Guide 2024. Southwest Contemporary (forthcoming May 2024).
“Dorothy Arzner.” In Hollywood Heroines: The Most Important Women in Film History, edited by Laura L.S. Bauer, 98-99. ABC-CLIO, 2019.
“Disrupting Cause-and-Effect Narratives of Pornography and Violence: A Contextual and Theoretical Case Study of Sexual Violence in Mainstream Media.” Oculus 1, 1 (2010): 77-91.
“The Grand Odalisque and Feminist Psychoanalysis: Hegemonic and Subversive Re-Interpretation of an Image.” Ohio State Libraries (2008): 1-28.
“Dorothy Arzner.” In Hollywood Heroines: The Most Important Women in Film History, edited by Laura L.S. Bauer, 98-99. ABC-CLIO, 2019.
“Disrupting Cause-and-Effect Narratives of Pornography and Violence: A Contextual and Theoretical Case Study of Sexual Violence in Mainstream Media.” Oculus 1, 1 (2010): 77-91.
“The Grand Odalisque and Feminist Psychoanalysis: Hegemonic and Subversive Re-Interpretation of an Image.” Ohio State Libraries (2008): 1-28.
Art Criticism and Reviews
"Emptiness Is The Mirage Of The New Frontier in ann haeyoung's terra nullius," Southwest Contemporary (February 26, 2024).
https://southwestcontemporary.com/ann-haeyoungs-terra-nullius/
"Alex Boeschenstein Examines Roswell’s Storied History in New Works." Southwest Contemporary (October 19, 2023).
https://southwestcontemporary.com/alex-boeschenstein-roswell/
"Two Las Cruces Exhibitions Explore Fallout of Nuclear Weapons Testing." Southwest Contemporary (August 17, 2023).
https://southwestcontemporary.com/cara-despain-specter-trinity-legacies-of-nuclear-testing/
“Fred Tomaselli.” CAA Reviews (November 12, 2015).
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2639 - .Vz3zEmNh2A8
“#1 must have: a photo zine for queers at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art." Museums & Social Issues 9.1 (April 2014): 69-74.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/ann-haeyoungs-terra-nullius/
"Alex Boeschenstein Examines Roswell’s Storied History in New Works." Southwest Contemporary (October 19, 2023).
https://southwestcontemporary.com/alex-boeschenstein-roswell/
"Two Las Cruces Exhibitions Explore Fallout of Nuclear Weapons Testing." Southwest Contemporary (August 17, 2023).
https://southwestcontemporary.com/cara-despain-specter-trinity-legacies-of-nuclear-testing/
“Fred Tomaselli.” CAA Reviews (November 12, 2015).
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2639 - .Vz3zEmNh2A8
“#1 must have: a photo zine for queers at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art." Museums & Social Issues 9.1 (April 2014): 69-74.
Curatorial Projects
Co-Curator
Warhol and Friends / forthcoming Fall 2024 University Art Museum, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Curator
Miniature-Making in Roswell, New Mexico: Highlights from the MCCM Collection / forthcoming 2024 Miniatures and Curious Collections Museum
Roswell, New Mexico
Designer
Critical Theory Archive Portal / 2019
University of California, Irvine, Special Collections and Archives
https://cta.lib.uci.edu
Curator
A Desert Guidebook / 2016
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens http://www.adesertguidebook.com
Warhol and Friends / forthcoming Fall 2024 University Art Museum, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Curator
Miniature-Making in Roswell, New Mexico: Highlights from the MCCM Collection / forthcoming 2024 Miniatures and Curious Collections Museum
Roswell, New Mexico
Designer
Critical Theory Archive Portal / 2019
University of California, Irvine, Special Collections and Archives
https://cta.lib.uci.edu
Curator
A Desert Guidebook / 2016
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens http://www.adesertguidebook.com
Media Attention
"The Fabricated American Desert," Verso, The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, https://www.huntington.org/verso/2018/08/fabricated-american-desert