Sequoia Chenoah Belk-Hurst
- (They/Them)
- ART HISTORY
Sequoia Chenoah Belk-Hurst (They/Them) is an artist, poet, ritualist, and MA Candidate at CU Boulder pulling on threads of materiality, trans identity, and medical sociology within the field of contemporary art.
Sequoia earned their dual BA with honors while studying Studio Art and Art History at Mills College in Oakland, California, where they received several research scholarships including the Grace "Ty" Searing Dhaemers Art History Award, and the Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Faculty Purse for Graduate Study. Their thesis, “The Body Repellent: Visceral Empathies in Feminist Sculpture,” which examined the blurred line between medium and the artist’s own tissues in the work of Eva Hesse and Kiki Smith, was selected to be presented at the 2020 deYoung Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium.
Sequoia maintains a studio practice alongside their research. An extended meditation on death, sex, queerness, identity, body, and magic, their visual work acts as kinesthetic supplement to their academic inquiry.
Their favorite color is green, their favorite animals are bats, and their favorite pen is currently a blue-ink clicky ballpoint from the Royal Moore Auto Center. Sequoia is a solar Gemini, and moves gracefully between states of reverence and mirth. This is reflected in their writing, artwork, and general behavior.