Andrea Giunta

Andrea Giunta

Andrea Graciela Giunta (Buenos Aires, May 5, 1960), is an art historian, researcher and curator of Argentine art exhibitions.
She is a professor of Latin American Art (History of American Art II) and Modern and Contemporary Art (Plastic VI) at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, where she obtained her doctorate. She is a Principal Investigator at CONICET. She is the curator, among others, of the retrospective exhibition by León Ferrari in 2004 (CCR-BA), Extranjerias, together with Néstor Garcia Canclini (2009-2012, Fundación Telefónica and MUAC); Verboamérica, together with Agustín Pérez Rubio (2016, MALBA); Radical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1965, with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (2017-2018, Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo); Chief Curator of the Biennial 12. Porto Alegre, 2020. She Author of numerous books among which Vanguardia, Internacionalismo y Política stand out. Argentine Art in the sixties (1st ed. Esp. 2001, 1st in English, 2007); Write the images (Siglo XXI, 2011); Feminism and Latin American Art (Siglo XXI, 2018); Against the canon (XXI century, 2020). Among the distinctions she received are international scholarships such as the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Getty, Harrington, Tinker and on three occasions she was awarded the Konex Prize. She is a full member of the National Academy of Fine Arts.