Dr. Jeffrey A. Hughes
Country of Origin: United States of America
Current Position: Full Time, Art History, Webster University, St. Louis
Jeffrey Hughes is the Professor of Art History and Criticism and director of the Graduate Program in Art. He attended DePauw University and received a B.A. in Art History from Indiana State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Art History from the University of Iowa.
Education: 
Ph.D.-1988
 University of IowaSchool of Art and Art HistoryIowa City, Iowa 
M.A. -1984
 University of IowaSchool of Art and Art HistoryIowa City, Iowa
Thesis Title:  "A Study of the Mughal Artist Bichitr." 
B.A. -1982
 Indiana State UniversityTerre Haute, Indiana  47808
Major:  Art History

Grants and Fellowships:
2007 Webster University Faculty Research Grant
2000 Center for International Education Grant:  German Expressionism
1998 Webster University Research Grant
1996 Title VI grant for study of German and Austrian Expressionism
1995  National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for research: 
World War II and the Tradition of the American Avant-Garde.
1987  Kress Departmental Fellowship, Aga Khan Program, Harvard
1986-87 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
1986-87 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Traveling Fellowship

Employment:
2001 - present Professor of Art History and Criticism
1994 - 2001 Associate Professor
1988 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Webster University Art Department 
Courses: Contemporary Art; Art Since 1945; Art Theory and Criticism;
Current Art; Abstract Expressionism; German Expressionism;
1994 - present Director, Graduate Program in Art
1991, 2003 Acting Chair: Department of Art Webster University 
August 1987-
August 1988		 Adjunct Instructor, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History
Courses: Art and Religious Symbolism; Introduction to Asian Art August
1983 - 1987 Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History; and
Department of Asian Languages and Literature                       
Courses: Surveys of Art History; Asian Humanities 
1985 - 1986 Adjunct Faculty, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City, Iowa 
Courses: Survey of Art History; Introduction to Modern Art

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Publications:
“Karen Olivier: A Closer Look, Review, (forthcoming), 2007. 
“Rick Brown and Handshouse Studio,” Artworks, Fall, 2007. 
“Ron Leax,” Sculpture, (forthcoming), 2007. 
“Janaina Tschape: Melantropics,” Artpapers, Jan/Feb., 2007. 
“Tobia Putrih: quasi-random,” Flash Art, Nov./Dec., 2006. 
“Remote Viewing,” Artpapers, Nov./Dec., 2006. 
“Jill Downen: (dis)embody,” Artpapers, July/Aug., 2006. 
“Joseph Havel: Drinks are boiling. Iced Drinks are boiling,” Artpapers, May/June, 2006.  
“On Public Sculpture,” in Ron Leax, Ed., Small Changes, Big Impact: 20 Years of Collaborative Public Sculpture, Washington University, 2006. 
“Girls Night Out,” Review, Jan., 2006. 
“Julie Mehretu,” Artpapers, Jan/Feb., 2006. 
“Ruby Osorio:  Story of a Girl, who awakes far, far away,” Contemporary, No.78, 2006. 
“Christoph Draeger: The Brazil Project,” Contemporary, No.76, 2005. 
“VCRS and MySci,” Artworks, Fall, 2005. “Thomas Demand,” Contemporary, No. 75, 2005.
 “Tresses and Wonder:  Ruby Osorio’s Girl Stories,”  Artpapers, May/June, 2005. 
“Currents 93:  Rivane Neuenschwander,” Artpapers, Mar/April, 2005. 
“Paul Graham: American Night,” Contemporary, No.70, 2005. 
“Keith Piper: Crusade,” Contemporary, No. 69, 2004.
 “Jill Downen and the Posture of Place,” Artworks, Fall, 2004. 
“Michael Lin,” Contemporary, No. 65, 2004. 
“Liz Phillips: New Sounds Works,” Contemporary, No. 63, 2004. 
“Jerald Ieans: Drinking One Blue after Another,” Dialogue Magazine, May/June, 2004. 
“Yun Fei-Ji: The Empty City,” Contemporary, No. 62, 2004. 
“Ron Leax:  Laboratories or Last Suppers,” Artpapers, May/June, 2004. 
“Neo Rauch,” Contemporary, No.61, 2004. 
"Focus:  Soo Sunny Park,"  Sculpture, June, 2004.
“German Art Now,”  Dialogue Magazine, January/February, 2004. 
"Somewhere Better than this Place," Artpapers, January/February, 2004. 
“A Fiction of Authenticity at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis,” Flash Art,  Nov/Dec, 2003. 
"A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary African Art Abroad," Contemporary, No.57, 2003. 
"Heather Bennett: Untitled," Artpapers, November/December, 2003. 
"Ellen Gallagher: New Works,"  Artpapers, July/August, 2003 
"Richard Jackson at Bawag Foundation," Sculpture, May, 2003. 
"Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Pan in the Park," Sculpture,  2003. 
"Josely Carvalho: Book-of-Roofs #0001 Tracaja," Artpapers, November/December, 2002. 
"Tony Gaddis and Eric Tilford:  See Through Walls," Art on Paper, November, 2002. 
"Terra Incognita: Contemporary Artist's Maps and Other Visual Organizing Systems," Art on Paper, September/October, 2002. 
"Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa,"  Artpapers, July/August, 2002.
"Destroy and Reclaim:  Artists and Disaster Sites," New Art Examiner, May/June, 2002. 
"On Erga Topika: 'works in place'," cataloque essay, Erga Topika, April, 2002. 
"Kurt Perschke: Presence,"  Sculpture, September, 2002. 
"Mary Ann Strandell:  Chinoiserie and Polyglots,"  Artpapers, March/April, 2002. 
"The Amitin Notebook Project,"  New Art Examiner, March/April, 2002. 
"Dave Muller: "Spatial."  New Art Examiner, January/February, 2002. 
"Book Review: Howard Singerman, Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University, in New Art Examiner, 2002. 
"Eine Barocke Party at Kunsthalle Wien,"  Sculpture, January, 2002. 
"Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts," New Art Examiner, November/December, 2001. 
“Christian Marclay,” Artpapers November/December, 2001. 
“Michael Byron,”  Artpapers, September/October, 2001. 
"On Site:  Forum for Contemporary Art,"  New Art Examiner, July/August, 2001. 
“Enrigue Chagoya: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology,” Contemporary Visual Arts, June, 2001. 
“Transpolyblu,” Artpapers, May/June, 2001. 
“Stephen Balkenhol: New Works,”  Sculpture, June, 2001. 
“A Prologue to contemplating digital,” SLGA Artinformant, May/August, 2001. 
“Issues: S.L.A.M.,”  New Art Examiner, May, 2001. 
“Wonderland,” New Art Examiner, November, 2000. 
“Kevin Welby,” Sculpture, November, 2000. 
The Impulse to Destroy, working title (in progress). 
"Abid;" "Mir Hashim;" "Payag;" "Ramdas;" "Bari;" "Rupbas;" in The Dictionary of Art, 1997.
Jack Canepa, Thirty Years of Painting, 1964-1994, Webster University, 1995. 
"Redefining Clay," Ceramics Monthly, March 1992. 
"Virginia A. Myers, Recent Landscapes," New Art Examiner, June 1986. 
"Robert Arneson:  A Retrospective," New Art Examiner, May 1986. 
"Bartolomeo Bandinelli;" "Metezeau Family;" "Pierre Le Muet;" "Francesco Ricchino;" "Ferdinando Sanfelice;" "Bartolomeo Suardi;" in The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1983.   

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Papers: 
“A Death in Venice – or why a 100 year old is still going,” International Studies Colloquium Lecture, Webster University, November, 2007 
“What’s Left Over—Abstraction again,” Visiting Scholar Lecture, Indiana State University, October, 2006. 
“The Art of Now,” panel, Postmodernism and the Lull, University of Missouri, St. Louis, December, 2005. 
“Dangerous Images, art and censorship a decade later,” Webster University,October, 2005. 
“The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture,” panel, Forum for Contemporary Art, December, 2000. 
Discussant; “Millenium Madness,’ panel, Atrium Gallery, November, 1999. 
“A Building to Die For,” Art History Lecture Series, University of Missouri at St. Louis, October, 1999. 
“Retreats from Reason,” Saint Louis Art Museum and Washington University, April, 1999. 
“Madonnas to Madonna,” Indiana University, April, 1997. 
Discussant, “Art as a Vehicle for Social Change?” Art St. Louis, April, 1997. 
“Abstraction with an Edge,” Masters of the Abstract Series, Atrium Gallery, October, 1995. 
Discussant; “Censorship and the Arts,” General Studies Forum, Webster University, October, 1992. 
"Just what is it that makes that makes today’s art so different, so well -- unappealing?" Guest Critics Series, Indiana State University, November, 1992. 
"Sacred Place in Contemporary Art:  Christian Boltanski," Art and Religion Conference, Eden Theological Seminary, January, 1992. 
"Arabic Script in Quattrocento Florence:  Calligraphy and David," International Congress of Fifteenth Century Studies, Peripignan, France, July, 1990. 
"Images of the Exotic European in Mughal Painting," Aspects of Asia Conference, Indiana State University, April, 1989. 
"The Bangala Roof:  A Hindu Form as a Mughal Symbol," College Art Association Annual Meeting, February, 1989. 
"Portraits of Europeans in Mughal Court Painting,"  Portrait Colloquium, University of Iowa, November, 1987. 
"Verrocchio's David  and the Problem of Arabic Script in Fifteenth-Century Florence," Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Student Seminar, April, 1986. 
"A Political Interpretation of the Cakravartin Relief of Jaggayyapeta Stupa," Midwest Art History Society Conference, March, 1985.

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 Curatorial  and related experience:

Curator:
Odavde/Otuda: contemporary Bosnian artists, Hunt Gallery,Feb. 2008
The Nature of Destruction, Laumeier Sculpture Park, projected, 2008
W.C. Richardson – abstraction, Hunt Gallery, Sept., 2007
3 sculptors, Hunt Gallery, Jan-Feb., 2005
This non-Linear Mind: John Hilgert, Hunt Gallery, Nov., 2003
Jack Canepa, Thirty Years of Painting, Hunt Gallery, Mar., 1995.
Art, Faith and the New Spirituality, Hunt Gallery, Nov., 1993.
Pertinent Dissimilarities:  The Figure, Hunt Gallery, Sept., 1992.
Biedermeier im Osterreich, Loretto-Hilton Gallery, Jan., 1990. 

Juror:
Arts in Transit; Historic Shaw Art Fair; Masters of Art; Art St. Louis; SLCC; Art and Air Fair, etc

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