The National Committee for the History of Art, the U.S. affiliate of the international body of art historians known as the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, serves professionals engaged in the practice of art history, broadly conceived, by facilitating intellectual and intergenerational exchange and advancing an expanding community of art historians.
37th CIHA World Congress: Sovereignty Posted: January 21, 2026
The 2029 CIHA Mexico City theme of “Sovereignty” takes up crucial questions of state power and its legitimation, international law, visual strategies to create communities of belonging and exclusion, and the central role of visual regimes to normalize concepts of private property, public space, privacy, and dispossession.
College Art Association 114th Annual Conference Posted: June 1, 2025
The CAA 114th Annual Conference will take place at the Hilton Chicago, February 18 – 21, 2026. The conference will be held in person with a selection of hybrid sessions and events.
Graduate Travel Fellowships Awarded Posted: June 10, 2024
Travel fellowships to attend the 36th CIHA World Congress in Lyon, France, June 23 – 28, 2024 were awarded to 16 graduate students.
CIHA Condemns Russian Attacks Against Ukraine Posted: March 12, 2022
The Board strongly endorses the message from the International Committee of the History of Art.
