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Director of Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art; Associate Professor of Art History
hindersb@jmu.edu
Contact Info

Education
  • Ph.D. (Art History), Columbia University
  • M.Phil. (Art History), Columbia University
  • M.A. (Art History and Criticism), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • B.A. (Art History), The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Areas of Expertise

Modern and contemporary art history, Africana studies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, aesthetic theory and contemporary philosophy

Pulications

Books:

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More than our Pain: Affect and Emotion in the Black Lives Matter Movement Co-edited with Steve Peraza.  Albany: SUNY Press, April 2021
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Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and PoliticsCo-edited with William Kaizen, Vered Maimon, Jaleh Mansoor, and Seth McCormick.  Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009.

 

Exhibition Catalogs:

Roe Means Eggs,” in Girls + Eggs, Contemporary Art Against Reproductive Injustice, Siona Wilson, JMU, 2024. Distributed by UVA Press. 

Waiting for the Update: On Emotion and AI, featuring texts by Beth Hinderliter, Material Girls, Bahareh Khoshooee, and Ariane Loze, JMU 2024.

Nekisha Durrett, True Grit, featuring essays by Zandria Robinson and Beth Hinderliter, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2023. Distributed by UVA Press.

“Soft and Safe Museum,” in The Museum of the Old Colony, ed. Laura Katzman, Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2023. Distributed by UVA Press.

Exhuberance: Dialogues in African American Abstract Painting, Hinderliter, Zurbrigg and Saggese. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2023. Distributed by UVA Press.

Seven Works to Bend TimeTexts by Kinitra Brooks, Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, and Beth Hinderliter. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2022.

Skeena Reece: Honey and Sweetgrass. Hinderliter, Reece. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU 2021. Distributed by UVA Press.

Lindsay Packer, Phase Space. Hinderliter. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2020. 

Edge Walkers, Hinderliter. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2020.

Colonial Wounds/Postcolonial Repair. Shanahan, Hinderliter, Menia. Exhibition Catalog, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, 2019. Distributed by UVA Press

 

Articles:

“CTRL Shift Narrative” in Changing the Narrative. (Catalog/website: JMU in association with the Virginia Humanities and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation initiative, 2019).

“How do you Play Bones?: Pia Lindman’s A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones.” TDR (Spring 2018): 200-206.

“Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World: Review.” Anthropos 112 (2017): 323-324.

“Seeing Paris in Total Darkness: The Aesthetics of Opacity in Nicolas Klotz’s and Élisabeth Perceval’s La Blessure,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal V. 9, Issue 3 (2015). Special issue on “Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences.” http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2015.1085662

“Producing the Common, Dak’Art 2014: Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in Conversation with Beth Hinderliter.” NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art 36 (Spring 2015): 88-93. 

“An International Alliance of ‘Colored Humanity’: Robert Williams in Asia,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing V. 50 Issue 4. (2014): 435-451. Special issue on “Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances During the Cold War.” 

 “Citizen Brus Examines His Body: Actionism / Activism in Vienna, 1968.” October 147 (Winter 2014): 78-94.

"The ArtEast School for Contemporary Art: Interview with Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev," Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae/vol6/iss1/7 

“The Power of the Virtual: Intensive Movement.” Theory and Event 13.3 (2010). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/summary/v013/13.3.hinderliter.html

“Interview with the Artists of the Spurse Collective.” Drain 11 (Fall 2008), http://www.drainmag.com

“The Multiple Worlds of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits.” Art Bulletin of Victoria 44 (2004): 26-33.

“Yvonne Rainer’s Murder and murder.”  New Art Examiner 24 (March 1997): 40- 41.

 

 Curatorial Projects - Highlights

 

Duke Hall Gallery

Co-Curator, Depth Soundings, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (February- March 2026)

Depth Soundings explores the relationship between sound and emotion in contemporary art. Not an exhibition of sound art in the narrow sense, it features artists whose work explores the affective power of sound in a variety of contexts and perspectives, ranging from the production of sounds by the body, to poetic language and musical sound, to the implication of sound (and its absence, silence) in contemporary social and political concerns. 

CuratorMinia Biabiany, dlo a rasin (water from the roots), Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (Fall 2024)
Minia Biabiany’s solo exhibition dlo a rasin explores links between Hopewell, Virginia, known in the 1950s and 1960s as “The Chemical Capital of the South,” and Biabiany’s home island, Guadeloupe, where the toxic chemical chlordecone (also known as kepone) was imported for use as an insecticide on banana plantations. What healing spaces exist when history repeats itself- from the legacies of slavery and plantation systems to environmental racism? Using the materials of water, wood, and soil, Biabiany explores one of the most important spaces of resistance against coloniality and French assimilation - jaden kréol - the creole garden.

Curator, Waiting for the Update, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (November 7 – December 8, 2023) As human emotions online are increasingly turned into monetized datasets, the relation between personal identity, collective work, and alienation have become significant questions in contemporary art practice. Waiting For the Update brings together multiple artists, including Material Girls, Bahareh Khoshooee, and Ariane Loze, who examine issues of artificial intelligence and emotional labor within our digital surveillance culture. 

Curator, Both Sides of the River, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (January 31, 2023 – March 18, 2023) Drawing on the importance of river ecologies as a dynamic site where land and water meet, Both Sides of the River pursues decolonial visions of justice and repair of the environment. Artworks by Carolina Caycedo, Sara Favriau, Marcos Ávila Forero, Kosmolgym, and Mary Mattingly address differing scales of geological time, perceptual and sensorial activation in the service of decolonial ecology, environmental racism, as well as new inter-species relations and kinship. 

Curator, Visible to the User, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (November 2, 2022- December 7, 2022) This exhibition, featuring artists Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Rashaad Newsome, Joiri Minaya and Tabita Rezaire, counters the history of visual technologies meant to be “invisible to the user,” which nonetheless contain within them a programmed bias towards whiteness.

Curator, Nekisha Durrett, True Grit, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (September 7, 2022- October 15, 2022)

Co-curator, Exuberance: Dialogues in African American Abstract Painting. Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (October 26- December 10, 2021) 

Curator, New Works by School of Art, Design, and Art History Faculty. Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (September 7- October 9, 2021)

Curator, Seven Works to Bend Time. Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (April 1- May 15, 2021)

Curator, Skeena Reece, Honey and Sweetgrass, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU (January 25- March 7, 2021) 

Curator, Lindsay Packer, Phase Space, Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU, (January 28- February 29, 2020)

Co-curator, Colonial Wounds / Postcolonial Repair and Colonialism. Featuring a new commission from Amina Menia. Duke Gallery of Fine Art, JMU. March 12- April 13, 2019.

Co-Director, “Black Cross Project,” Public art installation at SUNY Buffalo State Campus, November 2015.

Curator, “Public Strategies: Projects for Buffalo’s West Side.” Exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY, April 16-June 13, 2010.

Selected Fellowships and Awards
  • French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Grant, Both Sides of the River exhibition, 2023

  • Invited Participant, Residency on Un-writing Nature, The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, 2022

  • Networked Curator Fellowship, The Association of Art Museum Curators, 2020

  • E.O. Smith Arts and Humanities Faculty Development Award, 2017

  • Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Florida, Research Associate Award, 2015

  • Buffalo State Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2015

  • United University Professionals Individual Development Grant, 2014

  • Muriel A. Howard Excellence in Diversity Award, 2014

  • Buffalo State Equity and Diversity Mini-Grant, 2013

  • Bentley Historical Library Award, University of Michigan, 2012

  • SUNY Research Foundation Grant, 2012

  • Buffalo State Provost Grant, 2012

  • Buffalo State Diversity Grant, 2011            

  • C.V. Starr Foundation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2005-2006

  • Columbia University Research Fellowship, 2004-2005

  • DAAD Fellowship, 2003-2004. Residence in Berlin, enrollment at the Freie Universität, Berlin

  • Columbia University Teaching Fellowship, 2001-2002.

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