Daniel Santiago Sáenz

M.A., Latin American and Iberian Cultures Columbia University, New York, 2020
M.A., Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, 2018
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching, Concordia University, Montreal, 2017
B.A., Religion (Honours) and Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, 2016

Daniel Santiago Sáenz is a Colombian-Canadian art historian based in Lenapehoking (New York City) and Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). He holds a BA in Religion and an MA in Art History from Concordia University, an institution located on unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, an institution located in Lenapehoking, unceded territory of the Lenni Lenape. Daniel’s research is situated at the intersection of Spanish, Portuguese, and French imperialism in the early modern period by examining the developments in the theorization and production of visual languages in the colonial Latin Americas. His forthcoming article, “Connecting Decolonial Art Histories in Latin American and Canada,” will be published in the Spring 2021 of Latin American and Latinx Visual Cultures.