Graduate Student Profile

Diana is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University. She specializes in modern and contemporary art of Latin America with a focus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her dissertation work examines visual representations of cultural and environmental transformations in the Andean-Amazon region from the early twentieth century to the present.
As the 2024-2026 Cisneros Institute Research Fellow at MoMA, she has been involved in the organization of a public academic conference and editing process of a forthcoming publication about modern art and spirituality in Latin America and the Caribbean, among other responsibilities. She has also been collaborating as a member of the curatorial committee for the exhibition Amazonia Açu, hosted by the Americas Society from September 2025 to April 2026. At Rutgers, Diana is affiliated to the Andean-Amazonian Studies and Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice Working Groups.
Diana participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership seminar in 2023, and the Getty Foundation’s The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland seminar, 2023-2025. Prior to starting her doctorate, Diana worked at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). She has a BA in higher education from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and an MA in art history from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.