Hoyon Mephokee is an art historian who specializes in postcolonial, decolonial, and global studies of modern European art and media. His research covers cross-cultural and colonial encounters in the Francophone world, specifically between the French Colonial Empire and the Siamese Kingdom, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He is also interested in studying modernist painting and sculpture in Thailand as it emerged in the twentieth century.

Hoyon is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is advised by Dr. Elizabeth C. Childs. In addition to his departmental research, coursework, teaching, and service, he has also completed coursework and taught for the Program in Film and Media Studies towards completion of a graduate certificate in Film and Media Studies. At WashU, he is a student affiliate of French Connexions, the Villa Albertine (The French Institute of Culture and Education) Center of Excellence at Washington University. He is also currently the International Exhibitions subeditor for the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.

His research has been supported by the Washington University Center for the Humanities, where he was a graduate student fellow. He has also been nominated for the Washington University Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and was an alternate for a research fellowship award at the Wolfsonian. He has presented his research at a number of conferences and symposia, including at the College Art Association, SECAC, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and Cultural Studies Association annual conferences, and has published in venues including Athanor and a forthcoming Brill publication.