Nicole F. Scalissi’s research focuses on American artists who stage violence against gendered, racialized, and classed bodies—marginalized identities with which the artists themselves identify—as a method of both community-identification and self-empowerment to call attention to the prevalence of disproportionate violence committed against women and people of color in the US more broadly. She is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and carries a master’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Exhibition catalog: María Elena Ortiz, Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, exh. cat. Text by María Elena Ortiz, Naima J. Keith, and Roxane Gay. Miami: Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2015. 128 pp.; 65 ills (53 col.). Cloth $35.00 (9780989854672)
Exhibition schedule: Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, Oct. 15, 2015 – March 6, 2016; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, February 17–May 21, 2017
