Paulina Pardo Gaviria (PhD 2020) received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty to conduct curatorial research for her exhibition Latin American Women in Art and Science during summer 2023. This exhibition is planned to open at the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach in fall 2024.
Latin American Women in Art and Science will feature the work of four Latin American women artists who have incorporated scientific practices into their artmaking. Centering on the work of Brazilian artist Letícia Parente, Latin American Women in Art and Science will also include the work of women artist working in Peru and Colombia during the 1970s–1980s. By examining their artistic deployment of laboratory aesthetics and methods, this exhibition interrogates the individual reception and historical repercussions of disease-prevention measures and contributes to the humanistic and interdisciplinary understanding of scientific practices. With the support of a NEH Award for Faculty in Hispanic Serving Institutions, Pardo Gaviria will conduct art historical and curatorial research and produce and coordinate written materials accompanying the exhibition.
Pardo Gaviria's vision for Latin American Women in Art and Science stems from her participation in the exhibition Data (After)Lives: The Persistence of Encoded Identity (Univeristy Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2016) presented as part of HAA's Visual Knowledge constellation.
Learn more about the award on the National Endowment for the Humanities website.