Christine Kierig (2020) earned her B.A. in Art History from UCLA (2015) and M.A. in Islamic Art and Architecture from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2018). She studies modern art of the Americas with a particular interest in mass media commissions, refugee artists, and new media and material studies. Her dissertation, tentatively titled: Moving Pictures: Projection Aesthetics and the Murals of Spanish Exiles in the Americas, 1940–1950 examines the mural and mass media projects of two Spanish Republican exiles, Luis Quintanilla and Josep Renau, in the US and Mexico. The project interrogates the collective investments that staged the ground for their commissions, their experiences as exiles, particularly how it impacted their work in exile, and the afterlives of the artists, as well as the afterlives of their media projects, as a problem for the chronology of media such as murals. Her work has been supported by UC Alianza MX, UC Berkeley's Center for Global, International, and Area Studies, and the Henry Luce Foundation, among others. Prior to joining the History of Art PhD program, Christine worked as the Public Programs and Marketing/Events Coordinator for the Art House Trust in Auckland, New Zealand. Most recently, she held the position of Curatorial Assistant for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco.
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