Hoyon Mephokee is an art historian who specializes in postcolonial, decolonial, and global studies of modern European art.

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 the politics of modernist painting and sculpture in Thailand as it emerged in the middle of the twentieth century.

Hoyon is pursuing his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is working with Dr. Elizabeth C. Childs and also completing a graduate certificate in the Film and Media Studies department. Prior to this, he received his B.A. in Art History and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Art History from the American University. At AU, he completed his thesis on the colonialist discourse embedded in the site and iconography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Fontaine des Quatres-Parties-du-Monde (1867-74) as it related to the Second French Empire. He is currently working on a co-authored chapter in a Brill publication on this topic.