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Sonja Gandert’s research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary Latinx and Latin American art, with a particular emphasis on Chicanx art of the U.S. Southwest. Other areas of study include the art of the Caribbean and its diasporas, historiography and institutional histories of Latinx art, and intersections between the “traditional” arts, ecology, activism, materiality, and health in New Mexico and Puerto Rico. Her current book project examines the work of Chicano artists in New Mexico and Texas during the long 1970s through the lens of la resolana, a northern New Mexico Spanish term used to refer to the sunny, wind-protected side of a building where villagers gather to converse. From the late 1960s onward, Chicano activists in northern New Mexico theorized and reactivated the notion of resolana as method and critical praxis by gathering community-sourced anecdotes, proverbs, recipes, remedies, and artistic techniques from elder generations, which were then documented and disseminated toward grassroots pedagogical ends.

Gandert’s research has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, among others. She has published in Working Papers��(ICAA-MFAH) and has a forthcoming essay in the catalogue for the exhibition Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico (UNM Press, 2025).

Prior to coming to CU, she taught art history courses in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and worked in the curatorial departments of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Since 2015, she has been a co-founding Executive Committee member of the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, a nonprofit advocacy organization supporting practitioners of Latinx art and art history.