Ionit Behar
Chicago Contributor

Ionit Behar is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is interested in the relationship between art and politics in late twentieth-century Latin America and North America. Her research focuses specifically on conceptual art in Argentina during the dictatorship. She holds a Master's degree in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Bachelor of Art Theory from Tel Aviv University, and a degree in Art Administration from the Bank Boston Foundation in Montevideo. She is the Director of Curatorial Affairs for Fieldwork Collaborative Projects NFP (FIELDWORK). She has served as the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership and as a Research Assistant for the exhibition "Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium" at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written for the Chicago Reader, THE SEEN, The Exhibitionist, and ArtSlant.