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Fabiola Martínez |
| Degrees | PhD. University of the Arts, London, UK MA Anthropology of Art and Visual Culture, University Collage London, UK BA History of Art, Sussex University, UK |
| Specialization | Mexican Art XIX and XX centuries. Art and Visual Culture. |
| Conferences | Forthcoming March 16 2012 “Identidad, vanguardismo y ruptura: el legado del surrealismo y la abstracción en México.” Seminario de Cultura Visual, CSIC Madrid. Forthcoming March 2012 Peripheral Modernisms, School of Advance Study, University of London. Paper: "Seeking the local in the universal: the paradoxes of abstraction in Mexico." Forthcoming July 2012 Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012, Sorbonne Nouvelle University & UNESCO Paris. Paper: “Neo/Post national identities or the fiction(s) of mexicanidad.” October 2011 Del indigenismo a la interculturalidad: balance del debate identitario en la crítica de arte latinoamericana, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Paper: "Las poéticas de la abstracción en México: reflexiones sobre la crítica de Octavio Paz y Luis Cardoza y Aragón' November 2010 Surrealism and the Americas, Sponsored by the Terra Foundation and Rice University, Houston TX. Paper: ‘Risking Mexicaness: Gerzso’s dialogues with surrealism and abstraction.’ April 2009 Intersections – 35th Annual Conference Association of Art Historians, Manchester, UK Session Convenor for panel: “Modernism and Antropofagia: Visual Culture and Authenticity in Latin America.” Paper: “Utopian Aesthetics: revisiting modernism from Latin America.” April 2008 Symposium Latin America: the Last Avant-Garde, New York. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, The Graduate Centre CUNY and the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Paper: “Art as Lived Experience: Neo-avant-garde expressions of Mexicanidad.” |
| Publications | 2009. “Avant-garde aesthetics and nationhood: the cultural history of post-revolutionary Mexico (1920 – 1950)”, Book Review in Art History, 32:3 2008. “Legitimizing Difference: mestizaje and criollismo in the construction of national narratives in Mexico”, in Orientes – Occidentes. El arte y la mirada del otro. XXVII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciónes Estéticas, UNAM. 2008. ‘Art as lived experience: neo-avant-garde expressions of mexicanidad’, in PART, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/arthi/part/lastavantgarde 2006. “The disciplinary challenges of an ‘all-inclusive’ study of art” (Review of Thinking with Things. Toward a New Vision of Art by Esther Pasztory), Book Review in Art History, 29:5 2001. “Consolidation and Renewal: Otto Samson and the Horniman Museum”, en A. Shelton (ed.) Collectors Individuals and Institutions, London: The Horniman Museum and Gardens. |
| Distinctions | February 2006 Kress Foundation International Travel Fellowship 2001 – 2004 Arts & Humanities Research Council doctoral award |
