Mariola Alvarez

Dr. Mariola Alvarez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She received her MA in Art History from the University of Florida, and her PhD in Art History from the University of California, San Diego. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Her research focuses on Latin American art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a specialization in the history of abstraction in Brazil. Her current research examines Neoconcretism, a Brazilian movement led by artists and poets from the 1950s and 1960s. Alvarez is co-editor and contributing author of the bookNew Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America (Routledge, 2019).

Alvarez’s other recent publications include “Galatea/bulbo Collective: Project Description,” and “Interview with Mauricio Brandão of BijaRi” in Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995–2010 (Duke, 2017), and “Minor Transnational Brazilian Art: Lyrical Abstraction and the Case of Manabu Mabe,” (Third Text, vol. 30, Issue 1-2, 2016).