Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D.

Email: rhernand@unm.edu

Office Location: Art 321

Work Phone: (505) 277-2516

Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Illinois, 2005

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

B.F.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1990

B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1988

Assistant Professor: Spanish Colonial Arts and Architecture

Professor Hernández-Durán joined the Art and Art History faculty in Fall 2003. He is affiliated with Latin American Studies and the Colonial Studies Working Group, sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. He serves on the faculty advisory board for the Arts of the Americas Institute and the Latin American and Iberian Institute Fellowships and Grants committee. In Chicago, Professor Hernández-Durán taught at DePaul University, the University of Illinois, and Columbia College, where he offered courses ranging from introductory surveys to classes on Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and Modern Latin American art. His museum experience includes an internship in the Prints and Drawings department of the Huntington Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, service on the exhibitions committee of the Union galleries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and most significantly, three years as MacArthur Intern and then MacArthur Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago. He is in the process of reworking his dissertation, “Reframing Viceregal Painting in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Politics, the Academy of San Carlos, and Colonial Art History,” into a book, tentatively titled, “El origen del arte entre nosotros: A Historiography of Colonial Art History in Mexico and the United States, 1855–1959.” Courses offered by Professor Hernández-Durán include the following: a survey of Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture, Novohispanic Art during the Hapsburg Period (1521–1700), Novohispanic Art during the Bourbon Period (1700–1821), Secular Colonial Art and Architecture, Baroque Art and Architecture, and graduate seminars, such as Comparative Colonialisms and Changing Concepts of Space, Land, and Landscape in the Early Modern Americas.

Research Interests:

Colonial visual cultures, early modernity and the Americas, Post-Colonial theories, identity politics (i.e. gender, sexuality, race, and class), Colonial Historiographies, the Academy of San Carlos, Museum Studies, New Spain, the Caribbean, the Philippines.

Selected Publications:

“El encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma: The Betrothal of Two Worlds in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America co-edited by Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Press [forthcoming 2006]

“The ‘Encounter’ as Intersection: History and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” Dissident Looks: Gender and Sex in Art History proceedings for XXIX Coloquio Internacional, Puebla, Mexico, October 2005; Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City [in press]

“American Wonder: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Ideal Spectator,” Towards a New Theory of Religion as Art edited by Steven Loza, former director of the Arts of the Americas Institute, symposium proceedings held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, May 2004, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press [in press]

“Entre el espacio y el texto: Ubicación del arte virreinal en el México poscolonial” Hacia otra historia del arte en México: La amplitud del modernismo y la modernidad (1861–1920) Volume 2/4, edited by Esther Acevedo and Stacie G. Widdifield, Mexico City: Conaculta/Curare, A.C., 2004.

“Visual Arts: Seventeenth-Century” Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture, edited by Michael Werner; Vol. 2/2, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997; pp. 1,558–1,568.

Latin American Studies at UNM:

Latin American Studies • Latin American and Iberian Institute • Arts of the Americas Institute • Colonial Studies Working Group • Center for Southwest Research • Spanish Colonial Research Center • Colonial Latin American Review

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