PhD Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (London, United Kingdom).
PhD in Geography and History (History of Art), UCM.
Master’s Degree in Cultural Management, Fundación Ortega y Gasset.
Teaching / Research
Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, she teaches in the fields of contemporary art history and curatorial studies.
She has been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and on the MA in Curating at the University of Navarra. Her research interests focus on the history and specificities of the exhibition medium, the critical possibilities of curatorial practice and the history of audiences.
It is part of the research groups Devisiones (UAM), SUMA: Universidad + Museo (UCM) and the research platform Modernidades descentralizadas. She has been a member of several R&D&I projects.
Professional experience
Between 2001 and 2006 she was Chief Curator and Head of Research and Education at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and previously Curator of the documentation and research area of the Contemporary Art Collection.
She has curated exhibitions and public programmes, among which the following are noteworthy Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica (2017, CAAC, Sevilla) and Comunidades inestables (2016, Intermediae / Matadero-Madrid).
Awards
In 2020 he received the Salvador de Madariaga grant to carry out a research project on Espectadores imaginados: Las representaciones del público en las artes visuales de la posguerra mundial at the Department of History of Art and Archaelogy from Columbia University (New York, USA).
Publications
Author of the book Exposiciones y comisariado. Relatos cruzados (Cátedra, 2020), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has also been a member of several scientific committees of conferences and has been a speaker at national and international conferences and seminars.