Rate My Professor Amy Sanchez Arteaga

Amy Sanchez Arteaga serves as Lecturer of Art History in the School of Art + Design at San Diego State University since spring 2020. She concurrently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Art, Media, and Design at California State University, San Marcos, from fall 2019 onward. Previous appointments include Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego (spring 2013), Lead Faculty for Production I in Otis College of Art and Design's Graduate Public Practice program (fall 2014–spring 2015), Museum Educator and Teen Programs Educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2011–2013), and Research Assistant for L.A. Collects L.A. at the Vincent Price Art Museum (2013–2016). Her degrees comprise an M.F.A. in Art from the University of California, Irvine (2016), with emphases in Critical and Curatorial Studies, Critical Theory, and Graduate Feminist Studies; an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego (2012, San Diego Fellowship recipient); an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA (2010); and B.A.s in Art History (cum laude, departmental honors, college honors) and Latin American Studies (summa cum laude) from UCLA (2010).

At SDSU, Sanchez Arteaga teaches Latin American Art History, Border Art History, Feminist Cultural Production, and Contemporary Art Theory. Her research interests include the intersection of art theory and practice as critical aesthetic praxis, feminisms of the Americas influencing collective and community-based art practices, transborder subjectivities between the Californias, and sound art. As cofounder of the binational Cog•nate Collective with Misael Diaz since 2010, she creates research projects, public interventions, and experimental pedagogical programs exploring cultural and economic exchanges across transnational communities to build solidarity defying geopolitical boundaries. The collective has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Getty Center, Craft Contemporary, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, FLACSO Arte Actual in Quito, Ecuador, and Organ Kritischer Kunst in Berlin, Germany, among others; notable shows include Tianquiztli: Portraits of the Market as Portal (ICA San Diego, 2022–2023) and Regionalia (Grand Central Art Center, 2018). Key publications are the monograph Regionalia (X Artists’ Books, 2020); “Gathering Place: A Portrait of Markets in Three Parts” (Foundry, 2023); “To Care, To Belong: Art-work in Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Kalfou, 2021); “Artist Communique: Through the Threshold, across the Fracture: On Borders, Art, and Citizenship” (Aztlan, 2019); and “Notes from the Field: The Elias Fontes Collection” (book chapter, 2018). Major awards include San Diego Art Prize (2022), Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), LA Area Emmy for KCET Artbound: Borderlands (2016), Art Matters Foundation Grant (2015), and NALAC Artist Fellowship (2013–2014). She has presented lectures and workshops at Stanford University Humanities Center, Vincent Price Art Museum, Japanese American National Museum, and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California on migration, Latinx subjectivities, sound and power, and community art. In summer 2020, she joined SDSU’s Professors of Equity to support social justice and inclusive pedagogy.