Macarena Deij Prado
Visiting Lecturer, Arts of the Americas
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About
Macarena Deij Prado (PhD, Art History, University of Florida) is an art historian with a dual focus on academic scholarship and curatorial work, specializing in early modern art in the Americas and contemporary Latin American art. Her research emphasizes the intersection of art, religion, and politics in Spain's American colonies. Her doctoral dissertation, Negotiating the Colonial Order: Art and Spanish American Religious Processions, 1570–1630, examined how multi-ethnic communities in major viceregal cities used both permanent and ephemeral art within religious processions to engage with and respond to Spanish colonial dominance.
Deij Prado's teaching philosophy is centered on fostering critical thinking and cross-cultural understanding. She has taught a wide range of courses in Chile, Mexico, and the United States, including art history surveys and specialized studies in Latin American visual culture and early modern exchange. As a curator, one of Deij Prado’s recent projects was Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection (2022), where she served as assistant curator. The exhibition was presented at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and later traveled to the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ) in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Education
Ph.D., Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Graduate Certificate in Curatorial Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
M.A., Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.