Ivana Dizdar is an art historian. Her work spans nineteenth-century visual and material culture, the history of science, the environmental humanities, and animal studies. She is currently writing her first book, a history of how the Arctic was represented across visual media in nineteenth-century Paris.
She is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the History of Art at Yale University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto and has held fellowships at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
An active curator, she has worked on exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, the 59th Venice Biennale, Qatar Museums in Doha, and, in New York, the Museum of Arts and Design and the Museum of Modern Art.