Biographical information
A Belarusian-American printmaker, designer, and an historian of art and architecture, specializing in Italian Renaissance and the Baroque, Anatole Upart had received his BFA in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, MA in Art History from UIC in 2011, and PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2021.
Dr Upart has taught at the University of Chicago as well as Clemson, Furman, Benedictine, and St. Xavier Universities. In 2021-2022, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as its Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History at the Department of Art and Art History. He joined the Department of Art History at SUNY Binghamton, NY, as Lecturer in Architectural History in 2023. In the summer of 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London, UK). That same year, Don Pedro de Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the Duke of Calabria and the Heir to the Neapolitan throne, invested Dr. Upart as a Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. In 2024, he became the Chair of the American Branch of the Society for Court Studies.
Dr Upart continues to be involved in teaching, printmaking, heraldic history and design, and art.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, UK, since 2022.
Affiliated Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2019-2020.
Mellon Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2019-2020.
Center for the Art and Architectural History of the Port Cities, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History of the University of Texas at Dallas, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, La Capraia, Research Residency, Autumn 2018.
The Hannah Gray Travel Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2018.
Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Biamonte Fellowship Fund, University of Chicago, Summer 2018.
Chagall Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2018 (declined).
Course Arts Resource Fund, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Spring 2018.
American Friends of the HAB Travel Grant, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Summer 2018.
Presidential Travel Grant, American Catholic Historical Association, Winter 2018.
Graduate Council Travel Fund Award, University of Chicago, Winter 2018.
The Carl S. Meyer Prize, 2017, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
Fulbright Graduate Student Award, Italy, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut, Rome, 2016-2017.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Centro Vittore Branca, Venice, Italy, Residence, Summer 2017.
Humanities Division Conference Grant, University of Chicago, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2016.
Kress Fellowship for Language Study in Italian for Graduate Students in European Art History (Middlebury College), Summer 2014.
UChicagoGRAD Travel Fund, University of Chicago, Autumn 2015.
The University of Chicago Fellowship, 2013 – 2019.
GAI Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2013 – 2019.
Dowley Scholarship, University of Chicago, Summer 2013.
Benedictine University Faculty Development Fund, Winter 2013 & Spring 2013.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Recognition Scholarship, 1996-2000.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant, 1996-2000.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750, Studies in Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Leiden: Brill (under contract).
Book Chapters
“Orzechowski’s Chimaera: A Ruthenian Dimension of Early Modern German & Italian Prints” in Svitlana Potapenko et al. eds, In Search of Centers: Early Modern Kyivan Christianities, Volume in the Series Kulturen des Christentums. Neue Zugänge zur Frühen Neuzeit/Cultures of Christianity. New Approaches to Early Modern History. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming, 2024).
“Polonia Restituta: The Case of St. John Cantius Catholic Church in Chicago” in Bozena Shallcross, John Merchant and Adam Kola, eds., Artistic Expression and Polish Chicago (forthcoming, 2022).
“Madonna del Pascolo: Ruthenian Heritage in Baroque Rome and the Development of the National Church of Ukrainians” in Aleksander Łupienko and Dragan Damjanović, eds., Forging Architectural Tradition: National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century (New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2022): 314-334. (ISBN: 9781800733374)
“Chicago's Woodlawn Neighbourhood and the Role of Religious Institutions: The Case of St. Gelasius” in Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine, eds., Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970. Building the Kingdom (London: Routledge, 2018): 198-212. (ISBN 9781138487116)
Articles
“Between Rome and Borderlands: Printed Images And Texts,” Series Byzantina, vol. 21, 2023 (forthcoming).
“Valerio Poggi, The Barberini, & The Anonymity of Architecture,” in the conference proceedings, Circa vestimenta: i Teatini e l'architettura (Rome, Italy, 22-23 March 2022), Gaia Nuccio and Marco Capponi, eds. Special issue of Lexicon. Storie e Architettura in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo (forthcoming, 2023).
“Armigerous Artists: Papal Nobility & The Formation of Artistic Elites in Early Modern Rome & Beyond” (in progress).
“’Napoli Senza Sole’: Art, Architecture, and the Pursuit of the Shaded Side of the Street” (in progress).
“Valerio Poggi & The Barberini” in the conference proceedings, Circa vestimenta: i Teatini e l'architettura (Rome, Italy, 22-23 March 2022), Gaia Nuccio and Marco Capponi, eds. Regnum Dei. Collectanea Theatina (forthcoming, 2023).
“Giovanni Gasparro, anticonformismo e l'aldività del barocco,” a catalogue essay for the exhibition, “Dal Tempo, l’Eterno. Viaggio tra l’uomo e il sublime in Giovanni Gasparro,” curated by Giuseppe Cassio and Paolo Cicchini, Palazzo Santacroce – Grand Hotel San Gemini, San Gemini (Terni), Italy, 13 Feb.-5 June 2022.
“Ruthenians in Naples: Slavs, Slaves & Italian Port Cities in The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750,” in La Capraia – Year 1. Research Reports from the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities - 2018-2019, ed. Sarah Kozlowski, (Napoli: Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura delle Città Portuali, 2019): 30-33.
“Master Prokopii’s Woodblock Prints of the Apocalypse at the Propaganda Fide,” Print Quarterly, XXXVII I (2020): 57-63.
“’Rito greco, lingua dalmatica’: Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome” in the proceedings of the conference “Visualizing Past in a Foreign Country: Schiavoni/Illyrian Confraternities and Colleges in Early Modern Italy in comparative perspective,” Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2017, Il Capitale Culturale, Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi 07 (2018): 137-161.
“Mission in Style: Russian Orthodoxy and Church-building in Illinois” in the proceedings of The European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Biennial Thematic Conference, “Entangled Histories, Multiple Geographies,” 2015 (Belgrade: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 2017): 98-102.
“Spatial Sacrality and the Budgetary Wrecking Ball,” Sacred Architecture Journal, 28 (2015): 20-28.
Translations (Russian to English)
Maria Zagitova, “Clad in Silver and Gems: The Art of Jewelry in Central Asia” in The Art Institute of Chicago and Madhuvanti Ghose, Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection (Chicago, Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016): 125-137.
Book Reviews
History of Ukraine-Rus'. Vol. 6, by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, transl. by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj and ed. by Frank E Sysyn. East/West; Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume IX (2022) (forthcoming, 2022).
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome, edited by Matthew Coneys Wainwright and Emily Michelson. Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming, 2022).
Ravenna in the Imagination of Renaissance Art, by Alexander Nagel and Giancarla Periti. Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming, 2022).
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps, by Jessica Maier. Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming, 2022).
Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700, edited by Walter S. Melion, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Lee Palmer Wandel. Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming 2022).
Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Legitimacy in the Kingdom of Naples, by Dauverd, Céline. Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming 2022).
“The Fall of Haman”: Rembrandt’s Picture in the Mirror of Time (in Russian), edited by Irina Sokolova, contribution by Victor Korobov. Print Quarterly, XXXVIII, 2 (2021): 193-195.
Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700, edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong. Sixteenth Century Journal (2021).
Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, vol. LXII (2018), published by Instytut Historii Polskeij Akademii Nauk, Warsaw. Sixteenth Century Journal (2021).
Ambrogio Leone's 'De Nola', Venice 1514: Humanism and Antiquarian Culture in Renaissance Southern Italy, edited by Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Lenzo, and Lorenzo Miletti. Sixteenth Century Journal, LI/2 (2020): 541-543.
Maarten Van Heemskerck's Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins, by Arthur J. DiFuria. Sixteenth Century Journal, LI/2 (2020): 546-548.
History of Ukraine-Rus'. Vol. 4, by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, transl. by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj and ed. by Frank E Sysyn. Sixteenth Century Journal, LI/3 (2020): 835-838.
Voci di riforma: Renovatio e concilio prima e dopo il Tridentino, by Eleanora Belligni. Sixteenth Century Journal (2021).
The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, edited by Ines G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre. Sixteenth Century Journal, LI/1 (2020): 221-223.
The Holy Name: Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age, by Linda Wolk-Simon; Bellarmine Museum of Art. Sixteenth Century Journal, L/2 (2019): 650-652.
Exiles in a Global City: The Irish and Early Modern Rome, 1609-1783, by Clare Carroll. Sixteenth Century Journal, XLIX/4 (2018): 1184-1186.
The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557-1632), by Victor M Fernández, Jorge de Torres, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, and Carlos Cañete. Sixteenth Century Journal, XLIX/3 (2018): 820-822.
Orphan Girl: A Transaction, or an Account of the Entire Life of an Orphan Girl by Way of Plaintful Threnodies in the Year 1685: the Aesop Episode, by Anna Stanisławska, translated by Barry Keane. Sixteenth Century Journal, XLIX/2 (2018): 497-499.
Crisis and Tragedy of the Continent: The Thirty Years War in the Events and in the Collective Memory of Europe [title is in Russian] by Yuri Ivonin and Liudmila Ivonina. Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVIII /2 (2017): 564-566.
Editorials
“Humility and Architectural Heritage.” an op-ed for Rorate Cæli, November 21, 2014, http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/11/guest-op-ed-humility-and-architectural.html#more.
Editorial Experience
Series Byzantina Autumn 2018 - Present
Sub-Editor (since Spring 2019) and a Peer Reviewer for a journal of the Studies of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art, based at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Copy Editor: Waldemar Deluga. Ukrainian Painting Between the Byzantine and Latin Traditions. Ostrava: Ostravska Universiteta; Warsaw: Polski Instytut Studiów nad Stuka Swiata, 2019.
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2010: “Hortus Tacitus: Anatole Upart's selected paintings and prints,” Art Matrix, B Zou Art Center, Chicago.
2007: "Anatole Upart: Latest Woodcuts," The Grind, Chicago.
"Anatole Upart: Recent Artworks," The Russian Cultural Center, Wheeling, IL.
2006: “Anatole Upart,” The South Loop Chiropractic Center, Chicago.
1999: “Contemporary Carpets,” Skokie Public Library.
“Anatole Upart: Latest Woodcuts,” Admissions Office, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
1998: “Anatole Upart: Russian Avant-garde reconsidered," Lincoln Terrace Art Studio & Gallery, Skokie, IL
Two-Person Exhibitions
2007: “Anatole Upart & John Chuprevich: Selected Works," Bunimovich Residence, Chicago.
2003: “Andrew Passamani & Anatole Upart: Recent Paintings,” Gallery Stilyagi, Chicago.
2001: “Anatole Upart & Eva Panek,” show at 1418 N. North Park, Chicago.
1997: “Under the Picasso: Anatole Upart and Leonid Osseny,” Daley Civic Center, Chicago.
Group Exhibitions
2013: "SNAPP ROLL!" Hoofprint Workshop, Chicago.
2012: "Drawn with a Knife," Morpho Gallery, Chicago.
“23rd Annual International Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2011: "The Generous Beast," Forte Gallery, Chicago.
"The Ethereal Fauna: The Artist's Muse,” H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI.
“22nd Annual International Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2010: “Incised, Bitten and Gouged: Anchor Graphics and the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, 20 Years of Printmaking: Anchor Graphics and Chicago Print Makers Collaborative,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago.
“Collaborative,” Fermilab Art Gallery, Fermi Nuclear Laboratory, Batavia, IL.
"The Ethereal Fauna: The Artist's Muse," Tim Robison Art Studio and Gallery, Chicago.
“21st Annual International Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2009: "The Ethereal Fauna," Tim Robison Art Studio and Gallery.
“20th Annual International Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2008: "The Big Bold Black & White Prints Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
“19th Annual International Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2007: “18th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
“New Members/New Work," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
“INK: Works from the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative," Tall Grass Art Association, Park Forest, IL.
2006: "The Chicago Show: Tracks, Cable, Sky and Lake," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
"Nature Maker," AllRise Gallery, Chicago.
"3rd LUC Print Biennial," Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago.
“17th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2005: “Paintings Inspired by Emily Oaks Nature Center,” art show, The Emily Oaks Nature Center, Skokie, IL.
"16th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2004: “Red Shift Film Festival,” art show in conjunction with the festival at Harper College, Palatine, IL.
"15th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2003: “Burial of the Dead,” ATM space, Around the Coyote, Chicago.
“Impressions: Contemporary Illinois Printmakers,” The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg.
“14th Annual Small Print Show,” Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
“Just Say No! Chicago Artists Against the War,” The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg.
2002: “Artists on the Belarusian Independence Day,” St. George Belarusian Church, Chicago.
“Spectrum: Contemporary Art of Chicago,” The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg.
"13th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2001: “Face to Face," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative & Lill Street Art Center.
“Land Beneath White Wings: Belarusian Artists in Chicago," The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg.
"12th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
2000: "BFA exhibition,” The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
"On the Surface," woodcut exhibition, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
"Decade of Printmaking," Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago.
"Around the Coyote," Art Festival, Gallery 213.
"11th Annual Small Print Show," Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
1999: “Contemporary Young Art at Sotheby’s,” ArtLink at Sotheby’s in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and in Chicago (auctions and exhibitions).
“ArtWork,” gallery of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago at 845 W. Jackson, Chicago.
"Chicago Art Open 1999," Chicago, IL.
"Advanced Printmaking: Fall '99," Admissions Office, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
1998: “Print Exchange Exhibition”, SAIC (Chicago), School of Art (Boston), Washington School of Art.
Print Exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia.
1997: Third show, Gallery Stilyagi, Chicago.
Second show, Gallery Stilyagi, Chicago.
1996: First show, Gallery Stilyagi, Chicago.
Collections
Artworks are in private collections in Belarus, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and the US.