Tatiana Flores

Tatiana Flores specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx art and brings to UVA an impressive body of work as an award-winning author, curator, educator, and advocate for marginalized communities and their artistic traditions. 

Flores’ contributions outside the classroom include having served as curator-at-large for the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, California and being named the Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, which toured five venues from 2017 to 2019, for the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and was director for the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts, where she oversaw several exhibitions and convened major programs, including the 2023 conference Art, Gender, and Disability, which received major support from the Ford Foundation. 

Flores served as president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) and is currently senior editor of ASAP/Journal. She has served on the editorial boards of Art Journal, which she chaired from 2018 to 2020, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Her book, Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30! (Yale University Press), was awarded the 2014 Humanities Book Prize by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association. She was awarded the 2016 Arts Writers book prize from the Andy Warhol Foundation for her manuscript in progress, Art and Visual Culture under Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.