Tatiana Reinoza

Assistant Professor of Art History
Art, Art History & Design

Research Interests

Latinx art, graphic arts, art & social movements

Related Courses Taught

Borderlands Art & Theory, Latinx Art & Activism, 20th C. Latin American Art, Art & Identity

Biography

Tatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame and a past member of the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. In her research and teaching, she explores diverse facets of Latinx visual art in the United States including its relationship to borderlands discourse, and activism. 
Her first book, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory  (forthcoming from the University of Texas Press), is an interdisciplinary study that examines how Latinx artists adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas for Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people. Drawing from the print archives of graphic workshops across the country, she focuses on artistic representations of territory that break away from traditional Western conceptions of geography. Reclaiming the Americas shows how Latinx artists have been at the forefront of battling the resurgence of anti-immigrant discourse, making migration histories visible, and critiquing printmaking’s complicity in the colonization of the Americas.
Reinoza is co-editor with Karen Mary Davalos of the edited volume, Self Help Graphics at Fifty (forthcoming from the University of California Press), which explores the history of this East Los Angeles community-based graphic art workshop and how it fosters art for social change, dignity for all, and pride in Latinx heritage.
In 2022-2023, Professor Reinoza will be on leave to begin research and writing on a new book project, provisionally titled Retorno: Art and Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.  Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and earned awards from the Association of Print Scholars, the College Art Association, and the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section.