Benjamin Lima

Benjamin Lima teaches 20th and 21st-century art at UT Arlington. His current book project investigates how experimental and event-based work in the 1960s, engaged with themes of war and other traumatic violence. He has written for Art Journal and Art in America, and contributed to catalogs for the Yale Art Gallery and Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, and presented at conferences including the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Berlin and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies in Ghent. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University.