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Faculty: Wasserspring . Renjilian-Burgy . Oles . Levitt . Roses James Oles is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College, where he teaches Latin American Art, focusing on the history of Mexican art from the ancient through modern eras. He also lectures on precolumbian art of the Americas, mural painting in Mexico and the United States, and the history of film. He recently curated a long-term exhibition of precolumbian art (Art of the Ancient Americas) for the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, and has advised the Museum on acquisitions of works of ancient and modern Mexican art. A part-time member of the Wellesley faculty since 1996, he received a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in History of Art from Yale University in 1995. He was also awarded a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988. Professor Oles' research focuses on the intersections between Mexican and American artists in the 1930s, on modern Mexican art, and on modern photography. Along with faculty awards from Wellesley College, he has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, administered through Curare: Espacio Critico para las Artes (1996), and from the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture (1995). Professor Oles teaches at Wellesley in the spring semesters, and resides in Mexico City for the remainder of the year, where he works as an independent art historian. He is a regular art critic for Mexico's daily newspaper Reforma. He is author and curator of South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993; and Helen Levitt: Mexico City, W.W. Norton, 1997; and author of "The Gelman Collection of Mexican Art in Context," in Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996; and Las hermanas Greenwood en MZxico, Mexico City, 2000, as well as other essays in museum catalogues and journals. He has also co-curated exhibitions of the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros and Lola Alvarez Bravo, and recently reinstalled the permanent collection of modern Mexican art for Mexico City's Museo Carrillo Gil. He is also coordinator of "Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico," part of Making Sense of Modern Art, an interactive computer program/CD for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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