Izzy Desantis graduated from OSU’s History of Art department with her BA in 2020.  Read below for an update on what she’s been up to since graduation:

Since graduating from Ohio State in 2020, I studied fine art in Paris, and received my MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London, where I wrote my thesis on the use of text in the paintings of New York artist Florine Stettheimer. I then moved to New York myself, where I began work as the researcher and writer for the Evening Sale at Phillips Auction House; even though I wrote mostly on contemporary art, I managed to make lots of connections to the medieval art history I studied at OSU! Currently, I write freelance, and I am the lead teaching artist for Do Ho Suh’s Artland, an installation made in collaboration with children visiting the Brooklyn Museum. I first learned of Suh’s work in Professor Kunimoto’s contemporary Asian art seminar in 2018, so it’s been such a full-circle moment to work with the artist’s studio!  I also run a risograph press out of my apartment in Brooklyn, a self-publishing project called Vanitas Press! @vanitas.press