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Mariola V. Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art, with a focus on Brazilian art history and postwar abstract art. Her research employs interdisciplinary methodologies to explore connections between immigrant artistic communities and global cultural production.
- Education: PhD in Art History from University of California, San Diego (2012)
Her first book examines the Neoconcrete art and poetry group in Rio de Janeiro, while her second project analyzes the Japanese diaspora's contributions to São Paulo's postwar abstract art scene. She co-edited New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America (Routledge, 2019) and received a Fulbright Scholar award in 2022 for research in Brazil.
Alvarez is currently a Wolf Humanities Center Regional Fellow (2021–2022) working on her book project Becoming Brazilian: Immigrant Artists’ Groups in São Paulo, which investigates how migration impacted Brazilian national art definitions.
- Awards: Fulbright Scholar award
Her work expands Latin American art historiography to include diasporic contributions and rethinks global connections in postwar cultural production.
