Fabiola Mart铆nez Rodr铆guez, Ph.D.
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
History
Education
Ph.D. University of the Arts, London, UK
M.A. Anthropology of Art and Visual Culture, University College London, UK
B.A. History of Art, Sussex University, UK
Practice Areas
- Mexican Art XIX and XX Centuries
- Art and Visual Culture
Research Interests
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Inter-American and Transatlantic cultural diplomacy, artistic networks, and the role that Mexico and Mexican art played in the Cultural Cold War.
- Member of the research group Descentralized Modernities: art, politics, and counterculture
in the Transatlantic axis during the Cold War, (2015 - to date).
Publications and Media Placements
2022. "Exposici贸n Mexicana de Pintura y Estampa Contempor谩neas. Mexican Art in the
Eastern Front 1955: Poland and Bulgaria." Artl@s Bulletin 11, no. 1 (2022).
2021. "Mexico's Interamerican Biennials and the Hemispheric Cold War." Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Est茅ticas, vol. 43, no. 119 (September 2021) 249-285.
2021. "The Art of Botero and Latin America's Cultural Cold War", in Cecilia Braschi
(ed.), Fernando Botero, Beyond Forms, cat. exp. (Mons, Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts, 8 octobre 2021-31 janvier 2022), Heule, Snoeck,
2021, pp 34-43.
2021. "Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind: Rufino Tamayo", in UNESCO Art Collection.
Selected Works, Paris: UNESCO, 2021, pp 101-103.
2019. "Haciendo frente a la abstracci贸n: las pol铆ticas transnacionales de la escuela
mexicana en los cincuenta", in Paula Barreiro ed., Atl谩ntico Fr铆o. Historias transnacionales del arte y la pol铆tica en los tiempos del
tel贸n de acero, Madrid, Brumaria.
2015. , co-editor with Paula Barreiro L贸pez, and Jes煤s Carrillo, Museo Reina Sof铆a.
2015. "", in Modernidad y vanguardia.
Honors and Awards
Summer 2023
Research Residency at the Institut Giacometti in Paris. Project "Tamayo in Paris 1950-1960"
January-September 2016
Terra Foundation for American Art, Academic Programs Grant for project 'Cold Atlantic:
cultural war, dissident artistic practices, networks and contact zones at the time
of the Iron Curtain'.
July 2016
Short Visiting Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the project:
"Competing hegemonies during the Cold War: las bienales interamericanas de pintura y grabado en M茅xico 1958-1960".
September 2013-August 2014
"The Mexican Connection: Forging American Modernism in New York 1920-1945". Terra
Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art Smithsonian American Art Museum.
February 2006
Kress Foundation International Travel Fellowship to attend CAA conference in Boston.
2001-2004
UK Arts & Humanities Research Council doctoral award.