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Rate My Professor Karina Skvirsky

Lafayette College

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4.08/20/2025

Helps students build confidence and skills.

5.04/30/2025

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About Karina

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is Professor of Art and Department Head at Lafayette College, positions she has held since joining the faculty in the fall of 2006. She earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature from Oberlin College in 1990 and an M.F.A. in Photography from Indiana University in 1996. Raised between the U.S. and Ecuador as a woman of Ecuadorian and Jewish-American ancestry, Skvirsky's artistic practice is multidisciplinary, spanning photography, video, and performance. Her research specializations include Latin American history and contemporary art practice. She employs personal narratives as entry points to broader inquiries into place, identity, and nationhood, as well as histories of the African diaspora, complexities of indigeneity, and legacies of colonialism. Her work, influenced by abstraction, politics, humor, feminism, and art history, utilizes static and moving images, often with performance elements, to interrogate the subjectivity of history and truth. Projects are research-driven, originating from specific questions.