Marina M. Álvarez
PhD Student: Modern Mexican & Latinx Art
Pronouns: she/her/ella
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About
Marina M. Álvarez is a curator, scholar, and an educator. 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. Marina holds an MA in Spanish from Loyola University Chicago, an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. With training in Critical Ethnic Studies, Literature, and Gender Studies, she studies twentieth century Mexican art and contemporary Latinx art.
Selected Publications
Marina M. Álvarez, “Monumentality and Anticolonial Resistance: Feminist Graffiti in Mexico,” Public Art Dialogue 12.2 (2022): 178-194.