Harper Montgomery

Harper Montgomery is a Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago and has contributed to academic journals such as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and Modernism/Modernity. Her research explores post-colonialism, modernism, conceptualism, and the intersection of cosmopolitan and indigenous art through a global lens.

Her scholarly work focuses on Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, and the Latinx U.S., examining criticism, magazines, prints, histories of collecting, and transnational networks. She has curated exhibitions at institutions like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and organized shows on Francis Alÿs, Felipe Dulzaides, and 19th-century traveler artists. Her 2017 monograph The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America received the Arvey Foundation Book Award.

Montgomery’s research has been supported by grants from the Rockefeller and Mellon Foundations, two PSC-CUNY research grants, and a senior fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation. She has co-edited volumes such as Beyond the Aesthetic and The Anti-Aesthetic (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013). Her current projects investigate the rise of artesanía (craft) in Latin American contemporary art spaces from the 1970s to late 1980s.

• Arvey Foundation Book Award for distinguished scholarship on Latin American Art
• Senior fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation