Recent News

Join us on April 14th at 5pm EDT.

Pre-Columbian indigenous cultures come alive in contemporary art, architecture, customs, and traditions in Mexico City.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ana Fernández Miranda Texidor has been awarded the 2023 IDSVA Ted Coons Dissertation Prize, for the dissertation: ‘Vegetal Soul’: Plant Ontology, The Amazonian Yachag And The Artist In Trance, directed by Dr. Dejan Lukic. The award was conferred at the IDSVA Commencement ceremony in Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, on January 14, 2023.

IDSVA awards one David Driskell Fellowship with each incoming cohort. Driskell Fellows are students of color who show promise in carrying forward David Driskell's mission to encourage worldwide community and equality through art.

The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) offers a non-studio PhD in philosophy and art theory for artists and creative thinkers. With no campus, IDSVA is a truly nomadic institution, existing everywhere our students and faculty are. We are now accepting applications for September 2023 enrollment with a priority deadline of April 3, 2023.

The 2023 Honorary Degree Recipients, Indigenous American Chef and Author Nephi Craig; Mexican Author, Historian, and Editor Margarita de Orellana; and Mexican Author and Editor Alberto Ruy-Sánchez will speak at the annual IDSVA Commencement Ceremony at the National Museum of Art (MUNAL) in Mexico City on January 14, 2023.

The IDSVA Librarian is a faculty-equivalent appointee who provides a wide range of professional services in the low-residency PhD program, in support of its research, teaching, and educational missions.

We're pleased to announce that multiple students, alumni, and faculty will participate in the 2022 SECAC Conference in Baltimore, MD, from October 26-29, 2022.

Please join IDSVA and the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria on October 29, 2022 at 11am EDT / 5pm SAST.

Join us on October 15, 2022 at 1:00 pm (EDT)

Join us for this virtual event on September 24th at 11:00 (EST) /17:00 (SAST)

IDSVA students visited Madrid, Marrakech, Paris, Rome, Spannocchia Castle (Tuscany), and Venice.

We're pleased to announce the 2022 summer faculty.

We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Simonetta Moro to Full Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies.

We're excited to announce that our NYC residency will resume this spring. The Commecement Ceremony will take place on May 1st.

With Dr. El Putnam and Dr. Keren Moscovitch.

Carolyn Jean Martin is an educator and artist. She earned an M.F.A. in painting and an M.A. in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art from San Francisco Art Institute.

The Omicron variant has been spreading exponentially over the past several days. Travel and social interaction are once again posing serious risk of infection. In light of that, we will reschedule the upcoming January residency and Commencement in NYC to April, conditions permitting.

"On the datafication of the world: Arendt, Natality and the Onto-Politics of Big Data" December 11, 2021, 12pm. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The third lecture of the "On the Anthropocene" lecture series be held on Saturday, November 27 (12–2pm EDT). The lecture is free and open to the public.

A note from President George Smith on his dear friend and longtime IDSVA faculty member, Sylvère Lotringer.