Danielle Pesqueira
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mentors: As a first-year Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at LACMA, Pesqueira worked with Wallis Annenberg Curator of Photography Rebecca Morse. This year, Pesqueira is being mentored by Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, and Christine Y. Kim, Curator of Contemporary Art.
Danielle Pesqueira is a rising fourth-year student majoring in art history and visual culture at Whittier College, California. They also have minors in anthropology and gender studies, which have impacted their art historical interests in contemporary Latinx photography. This past semester Pesqueira completed their senior seminar thesis, “Visual Voice: The Legitimization of Identity in Laura Aguilar’s Latina Lesbians Series (1986–90),” which they intend to continue researching independently and in graduate school. As a Chicanx individual navigating academia, they have a strong desire to reconsider the canonical history of art as presented in institutions. The Internal Chair of Whittier College’s Diversity Council for the last three semesters, Pesqueira seeks to elevate the voices of BIPOC, QTPOC, Latinx, and other intersectionalized individuals in the arts.
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