Maria del Mar started following the work of David Quinto-Pozos, The University of Texas at Austin, Linguistics.
Maria del Mar followed the research interests: Biennials, History of Exhibitions, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Memory, Practice-based research, Postcolonial Studies, Art and Aesthetics of the Cold War, Cold War and Culture, Propaganda... (9 more)
Maria del Mar started following the work of Maribel Maysonet.
Maria del Mar dissertating and anxiously awaiting those interlibrary loan books!
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student, Art History
Ph.D. Candidate
Thesis Title: Proofing the Nation: Contested Displays of Identity at the San Juan Print Biennial (1970-2009)
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Oscar E. Vázquez
Miriam Basilio Terri Weissman Richard T. Rodriguez |
About
María del Mar is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Modern and Contemporary art of Latin America and U.S. Latino/a art. In addition to this, she has a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her research interests include: art biennials and the global art market, museums and collections, identity construction and contestation, dissident and political art, institutional history, photography, and reprographic arts. María del Mar's dissertation explores the Latin American and Caribbean Print Biennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico as a case study for the phenomenon of biennialization, as well as a space for the constructions and redefinitions of national identities examining the role of smaller countries within the global art market. She has recently completed a graduate internship in the Getty Foundation the philanthropic arm of the the J. Paul Getty Trust in 2009-10, and in 2008–2009 was a Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. She has presented papers at a number of conferences and symposia, and in 2007 was the co-organizer of "American Art Histories and Transdisciplinary Practices" funded by the Mellon Foundation. She has actively pursued her interest in the areas of museum and curatorial studies and philanthropy, among the institutions where she has held internships are: the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of American History, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and most recently the The J. Paul Getty Trust.
