Annika Bohanec (she/her) is a recent graduate of Loyola University Chicago (BA & BS), whose research interests broadly focus on critical feminist and race theory in American modern and contemporary art. Engaging with feminist and revisionist theories, her senior thesis, entitled “Art Nouveau’s New Women: Clara Driscoll, Agnes Northrop, and the Tiffany Girls Illumined,” analyzed the careers and works of the women designers in the Tiffany Studios as contributing to the development of modern art and the “modern woman” in the late 19th and early 20th century of America. She was the 2022 recipient of the Mary Lawton Award and is currently working with Elizabeth McGoey, Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Associate Curator, in the Arts of the Americas department. This September she will continue her intersectional study of art history and critical theory at the Courtauld Institute, where she intends to explore modernism, critical race theory, and the practices of contemporary Black and Brown artists.
September 2022 she will study art history and critical theory at the Courtauld Institute in London.