News, January 13, 2026

Faculty News

A museum visitor surveys the Duff Gallery, curated by James M. Córdova and featuring New Mexican santos. Photo: Jamie Cotten.

James M. Córdova, Associate Professor of Art History

Córdova's most recent project at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is featured in Southwest Magazine. The titled article, "Southwest Art Museum Shatters Its Permanent Display for a Grassroots Rebuild" delves deeply into the newly curated exhibition at the arts center.

For the first time since 2018, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (FAC) reinstalled its permanent collection in a display titled . A considerable achievement, the reinstallation drew from a collection of tens of thousands of works to populate four galleries and a large adjacent corridor that connects the galleries and also features artwork. The spaces had to be reconfigured, as did the narratives that the institution had previously used to present the collection.

James M. Córdova, an associate professor of art history at the ��ý�� and a practicing santero, reinforces this domestic, reverent atmosphere. A newly built facade reminiscent of a wooden home invites viewers into a space showcasing a selection of items from the museum’s renowned collection of New Mexican sculptures and paintings. — —��

Stephanie Su, Associate Professor of Art History

Prof. Stephanie Su’s monograph, , has been published by De Gruyter Brill. Weaving together a diverse range of materials in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Prof. Su showcases a transnational history of modern art in East Asia. ��This book highlights a previously under-examined moment in global art history and uncovers a crucial relationship between art practice and art historical writing. Bringing together aesthetics, literature, gender studies, and geopolitics, History Painting Crossing Borders��charts a new path for thinking about the multilayered and multidirectional histories of modernism in East Asia. ��

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Associate Professor of Art Practices

Associate Professor Anna Tsouhlarakis has been named one of the participating artists in the forthcoming , organized by a curatorial team including Marcela Guerrero, Drew Sawyer, Beatriz Cifuentes, and Carina Martinez. Opening: Mar 8, 2026

The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports.

Professor Tsouhlarakis��was included in entitled “Jeffrey Gibson on 10 Artists to know this Native American Heritage Month” released on November 10th.

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In November, Tsouhlarakis had a in Lawrence, KS. The show, titled “Irrationally Indigenous” included sculptures, text installations, and video.

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announced that Tsouhlarakis has been selected as the second Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist-in-Residence. Her residency will take place during the spring 2026 semester.

Colorado artist mural featuring Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie, Professor of Art Practices

Professor Yazzie is featured in “Living Tradition. Past. Present. Future. Colorado Women Artists.” Including 12 mobile murals (painted on canvas) in the Colorado Capital Rotunda Gallery, plus dozens of additional works by both and in the Governor's and Lieutenant Governor's offices.

The exhibition is part of a Colorado Creative Industries with three shows in the Capitol building per year. In 2025, other exhibitions have included the "Art of Teaching Artistry" and "This is Native Art."

Marina Kassianidou, Associate Professor of Art Practices

Marina Kassianidou is participating in the group exhibition , at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Center (NiMAC), Nicosia, Cyprus. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Elena Stylianou. From the press release: "As a vital yet unpredictable and volatile element, water is a restless force that nourishes ecosystems, defines (is)lands, forms landscapes, and moves through bodies—human and non-human—while simultaneously resisting systematic attempts at control in an era of rapid development and climate instability. Fluid Persistence��brings together nineteen contemporary artists whose work draws from urgent questions about ecological destruction, water’s place in storytelling and myth-making, its defining power in geopolitics, its dark and haunting nature, and its magical and transformative potential, ingrained in the single fact that we are bodies of water."

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Exhibition Duration: December 12, 2025 - May 31, 2026

Yumi Janairo Roth, Professor of Art Practices

Professor Roth was awarded the . This prize was given to 53 individual artists, one in every state, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. With this new grant, Creative Capital extends its democratic, national, open call to serve more artists at the grassroots level and to foster creativity and innovation in a broad range of rural, regional, and urban communities.

Albert Chong, Professor of Art Practices

Retrospective Exhibition at University of Colorado Denver
, 1205 10th St. Plaza, Denver, CO 80204
January 22-March 18, 2026
Opening reception: January 22, 2026, 5-8 pm

Illuminations and Ruminations is a retrospective of Chong’s work since he moved to Colorado from San Diego in 1991, all the way to the present day. While his body of work largely revolves around photographs, Chong does not strictly limit his artistic process to one medium. Several of the photographs in this exhibition feature copper mattes with inscriptions containing icons, patterns and text. He transforms the traditional still life painting with images from his Throne series as well as his Color Still Lives that are rooted in black and white photography, then adorned in color with flowers. There are photomosaics, images comprised of marble and stone tiles. And then there are sculptural elements that further animate Chong’s distinct style and sensibility.

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