Overview
Anne-Solène Bayan (she/her) studies nineteenth-century art and visual culture in Europe. Her research currently explores the politics of representation, difference, and empire in French prints.
Anne-Solène holds a B.F.A. from Concordia University (2016) in Montréal, Québec and an M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College/The Clark Art Institute (2019) in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her master’s qualifying paper, “‘The Necessities of Extremes and Contrasts’: Architecture, Race, and Geometry at Notre-Dame de Paris,” focused on the ideological underpinnings of the nineteenth-century restoration of the Notre-Dame cathedral. Prior to matriculating at Cornell University, Anne-Solène was Assistant Curator at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.