Andrea Giunta

Andrea Giunta is Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she got her PhD, and is Principal Researcher of the CONICET, Argentina. She is the author of several books on Latin American and International Art, such as Rethinking Everything / Pensar todo de nuevo / Puisqu’il fallait tout repenser (Paris, delpire & co, 2021) Contra el canon. El arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro (Siglo XXI, 2020), Feminismo y arte latinoamericano. Historias de artistas que emanciparon los cuerpos (Siglo XXI, 2018), Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics. Argentine Art After the Sixties (Duke University Press, 2007) and When Does Contemporary Art Begin? (ArteBA 2014). She was founder director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2009-2013) where she was the head of Latin American Art History and Criticism. She was curator of the controversial retrospective exhibition on León Ferrari’s works (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2004), co-curator (with Agustin Pérez Rubio) of Verboamérica, permanent collection of Latin American Art at MALBA (2016), and co-curator (with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill) of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Hammer Museum, LA / Brooklyn Museum, New York / Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, 2017-2018), Chief Curator Bienal 12, Mercosur, Brasil, Femine(s). Visualities, Actions, Affects, curator of Rethiking Everything (Rolf Gallery Buenos Aires 2020, Les Recontres de Arles, 2021), and When the World Changes. Questions on Art and Feminisms (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2021). Visiting Professor at Duke University, Durham, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, among others. She was awarded the Guggenheim, Getty, Rockefeller, Harrington, Tinker fellowship – as Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Spring 2017 – and the Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship at Humboldt Universitat, Summer 2021. Her essays on Latin American and international postwar art have been published in academic journals, books and catalogue exhibitions in the Americas and Europe.