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Tatiana Flores
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia, 2003
Biographical Information:
Tatiana Flores specializes in twentieth century Latin American art and contemporary
art. Her first book project examines the development of avant-gardism in post-revolutionary
Mexico in relation to the Estridentista (“Stridentist”) movement,
which encompassed art and literature. Another study assesses the art, visual
culture, and cultural policy under the government of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
The interests that drive Professor Flores’ research include art historiography,
cross-currents between the art of the Americas and Europe, interdisciplinary
collaborations, and the relation between art and social consciousness.
Professor Flores has contributed to Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas,
ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America, and Woman’s Art Journal
and regularly writes for Art Nexus, where she is editorial advisor. She is
active as an independent curator, having organized exhibitions on contemporary
painting and Latin American art.
The Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies in 2007-2008, Tatiana Flores has also been the recipient of a Fulbright-García-Robles
award and a Jean Charlot Foundation grant. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty,
she taught at Florida State University.
Professor Flores holds a joint appointment with the Department of Latino and
Hispanic Caribbean Studies. Her courses include Latin American Art from Independence
to World War II, Latin American Art from the Postwar to the Present, Introduction
to Contemporary Art, Theories and Methods of Art History, Art and Visual Culture
in the Caribbean, and Mexican and Chicano Art from the Mexican Revolution to
the Present.
Recent Publications:
“Murales Estridentes: Tensions and Affinities between Estridentismo and Early Muralism” in Mexican
Muralism: Hemispheric Perspectives, eds.
Alejandro Anreus, Robin A. Greeley, and Leonard Folgarait. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 2009 (forthcoming).
“Culture in Caracas: The New Institutions of Bolivarian Venezuela,” ReVista:
Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2008 (forthcoming).
“Strategic Modernists: Women Artists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Woman’s
Art Jounal, Fall/Winter 2008, Volume 29, No. 2 (forthcoming).
“Clamoring for Attention in Mexico City: Manuel Maples Arce’s
Avant-Garde Manifesto Actual No. 1,” Review: Literature and Arts
of the Americas, no. 69 (Fall 2004): 208-220.
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