Marco Deyasi

College of Art & Architecture
Art and Design program
Assistant Professor

Home Town
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

With UI Since
2008

Office: AAS 122C
Phone: (208) 885-7028
Email: mdeyasi@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
Art and Design program
University of Idaho
PO Box 442471
Moscow, ID 83844-2471

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Duke University, 2007
M.A., University of Western Ontario, 2000
B.A. (Honors), Carleton University, 1997

Marco Deyasi is the art historian at the University of Idaho. He teaches modern and contemporary art, critical theory, and visual studies. His research focuses on the reception of Vietnamese and Cambodian art and culture in France, especially via the interplay between politicized modernism and colonial ideology. He is working on a book, Modern Primitives and Primitive Moderns: French Visual Culture and "Indochina".

Research Projects

“Resistance Begins at Home: Anticolonialism and Visual Culture” panel co-chaired with Patricia Leighten, College Art Association annual conference, New York, February 2011
“Ethnographic Sculpture and the Complexities of Race” presented at the College Art Association annual conference, Chicago, February 2010
“French Art and Colonialism: Indochine in the Work of Auguste Rodin and Théodore Rivière,” presented at the French Colonial Historical Society annual conference, San Francisco, May 2009
“Rodin and the cambodgiennes: Symbolism, Primitivism, and Colonialism in Rodin's 1906 Drawings of the Cambodian Ballet,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 2005

Awards and Honors

Residential fellowship, The Camargo Foundation, 2006
Chateaubriand Fellowship, Government of France, 2005-2006
Boone International Travel Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2005
Dissertation Fellowship for Advanced Students, Duke University, 2003
Kress Travel Fellowship, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 2003
Doctoral fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001–03