#  Byron Otis 

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Byron studies visual culture between Europe and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research interests extend from the cultural centers of northern and central Europe to the Ibero-American world, focusing particularly on their entwined histories of science, court culture, Hermetic philosophy, and colonial expansion. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where his honors thesis on self-referentiality and gender in Dutch genre painting was supported by a Merle Kling research fellowship and awarded the Murphy Family Prize. At Williams College, he pursued a master’s degree in art history, culminating in a qualifying paper titled “Living in an ‘America of Secrets’: A Fantasy of Indigeneity in Bartholomeus Spranger’s Recumbent Diana,” which was awarded the Clark Graduate Prize. Byron has assisted in curatorial projects at the Saint Louis Art Museum and, most recently, the Clark Art Institute, where he aided an interpretive overhaul of the decorative arts galleries that aimed to incorporate histories of labor and colonialism.



 

 

 





 

 

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