Kale Serrato Doyen

Kale Serrato Doyen (she/her) studies modern and contemporary art history of the United States. Her current research focuses on how Black and Latinx artists engage with landscape, urban planning, and infrastructure. She employs Digital Studies and Methods in her research by building digital maps that visualize the spatial and sociopolitical contexts of artworks. In her M.A. thesis, “The Oppositional Landscape Photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris,” she mapped and analyzed nine landscape photographs from the Teenie Harris Archive at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She identified what bell hooks coins an “oppositional gaze” across Harris’s photographs spanning from 1957-1962, as he documented the demolition of the predominantly Black Lower Hill District neighborhood and construction of the Civic Arena as part of Pittsburgh’s postwar redevelopment program.

Kale matriculated into the Ph.D. program following the completion of her Hot Metal Bridge Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in 2021. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020.