Visiting Lecturers 2025 Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and founding Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Public Lecture: “Frida the Making of a (Plural) Icon” Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, Escultura y talla directa, 1928. Woodcut. Lynda Klich, Associate Professor of Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York Public Lecture: “Wrought Lessons: Woodcarving and the Neocolonial in Mexico” 2024 Salnave Philippe-Auguste. Butterfly Girl (1976). Photo: Matthew Sherman María Elena Ortiz, Curator, Museum of Modern Art of Forth Worth Public Lecture: “Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940” Co-sponsored by the Archiving Black América initiative of LLILAS Benson. 2023 Diane Lima Diane Lima, Independent Curator based in São Paulo and Salvador & Aline Motta, São Paulo-based Artist Public Conversation: Bridges over the Abyss Presented in conjunction with Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil. Co-organized by the Department of Art and Art History’s Art History Lecture Series and the Visual Arts Center, with support from Archiving Black América, Art Galleries at Black Studies, Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS), Humanities Institute through the Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts, LLILAS Benson Brazil Center, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and Texas Global. Denilson Baniwa Denilson Baniwa, artist based in Niterói, Brazil Artist Talk Presented in conjunction with Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil. Organized by the Visual Arts Center, with support from the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS), Humanities Institute through the Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts, the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and Texas Global. Anna Indych-López, Professor of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center Public Lecture: “Cosmic Thing: DIY in CDMX” Damián Ortega, Cosmic Thing, 2002 2022 Fabiola López-Durán, Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History & Co-Director, Program in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage, Rice University Public Lecture: “Practicing Utopia: Race, Architecture and the 1922 Brazilian Centennial Exhibition” Augusto Malta, Demolition Morro do Castelo, Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 1922 Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University Public Lecture: “Plantation Imaginaries: Mobile Forms and Forms of Enclosure” ISLAA Forum Keynote William Berryman, View of Lucky Valley Estate Buildings, Clarendon, 1810, watercolor. Esther Gabara, Associate Professor of Romance Studies & Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University Public Lecture: “Motifs in Non-Literary Fiction: Walking in Spirals Under Neoliberalism” ISLAA Forum Keynote Francis Alÿs, from the series Ambulantes [Walkers], 1992-2006. As published in Ojarasca, monthly supplement of La Jornada, February 2013. 2020 Jaime Lauriano, Invasão (Invasion), 2017 (Photo: Filipe Berndt) Jaime Lauriano, Porto and São Paulo-based Artist Artist Talk Co-sponsored with the Visual Arts Center, with generous support from Shannon and Mark Hart Rosana Paulino. A Geometria à brasileira chega ao paraíso tropical (Brazilian-Style Geometry Arrives in Tropical Paradise), 2018 Rosana Paulino, São Paulo-based Artist Artist Talk Co-sponsored with the Visual Arts Center, with generous support from Shannon and Mark Hart and the College of Fine Arts Diversity Committee Guest Artist Initiative 2019 Alexander Calder and Mário Pedrosa (Photo: Luciano Martins) Luiz Camillo Osorio, Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Public Lecture: “Calder After Pedrosa” José Clemente Orozco. The Epic of American Civilization: Anglo-America, 1932-34 Mary Coffey, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College Public Lecture: “White Zombies and Black Labor: Specters of Slavery and Rebellion in José Clemente Orozco’s The Epic of American Civilization” 2018 Milton Guran, Agudá House, Lomé, 2010 Roberto Conduru, Professor, Southern Methodist University Public Lecture: “Agudá tectonics: Architecture and Photography in the Tides of Modernity between Brazil, Africa and Beyond” Mathias Goeritz, Realization No. 3, 1959 ‘ Jennifer Josten, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Public Lecture: “Goertiz’s Tactics” 2017 Cildo Meireles Elena Shtromberg, Associate Professor, University of Utah Public Lecture: “The Art and Crisis of the Cruzeiro in Cildo Meireles’s Banknote Projects” 2016 Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor, Temple University Public Lecture: “Forming Abstraction: The São Paulo Bienal and Modernism in Postwar Brazil” Tarsila do Amaral Rafael Cardoso Denis, Visiting Professor, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Public Lecture: “White Skin, Black Masks: Brazilian Modernism Between the Native and the Exotic” 2015 Andrea Noble, Professor, University of Durham Public Lecture: “Tears in Mexico: Emotions, Crisis, and the Social Compact” 2014 Diego Rivera James Oles, Professor, Wellesley College Public Lecture: “Cézannisme à la américaine latine: The Impact of Cézanne on Diego Rivera and Jesús Rafael Soto” (co-sponsored with Blanton Museum of Art) Agostino Brunias Edward Sullivan, Professor, New York University Public Lecture: “Landscapes of Desire: The Land as Resource in the Caribbean, 1770-1900” Kathryn O’Rourke, Assistant Professor, Trinity University Public Lecture: “Making Space for Mexican Architecture” 2013 Claudia Calirman, Assistant Professor, John Jay College, City University of New York Public Lecture: “Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship” Esteban Buch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Public Lecture: “Scandal at The Rite: Games of Distinction and Dreams of Barbarism” Rachel Weiss, Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Public Lecture: “Lupe at the Mic”
