Marina M. Álvarez
PhD Candidate: Modern Mexican & Latinx Art
Pronouns: she/her/ella
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About
Marina M. Álvarez is a curator, scholar, and an educator. She is currently a 2024-2025 Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellow. From 2021-2023, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Visual Arts Curatorial Assistant at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois, and in 2019 she was a Latino Museum Studies Fellow through the National Museum of the American Latino. In 2023, she was a Richard E. Greenleaf Library Scholar through the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) at the University of New Mexico.
Marina holds an MA in Spanish Language and Literatures from Loyola University Chicago, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois Chicago. At UIC, she is examining twentieth century Mexican, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x art through decolonial feminist theories. She has also published articles on the political potential of feminist graffiti on both sides of the U.S.-México border. Her article, "Monumentality and Anticolonial Resistance: Feminist Graffiti in Mexico" was published with Public Art Dialogue in 2022. Apart from her scholarly and creative ventures, Marina loves to teach, mentor, and guide other first-generation college students.
Selected Publications
Marina M. Álvarez, “Monumentality and Anticolonial Resistance: Feminist Graffiti in Mexico,” Public Art Dialogue 12.2 (2022): 178-194.
Selected Presentations
"Mexican Muralism", March 8, 2024, How Did Art Become Modern? course at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.