Tatiana Flores
(Boston, MA, USA, 1973) Curator, author and scholar. Tatiana is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Edgar F. Shannon Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. She specializes in modern and contemporary of the Americas through a comparative hemispheric perspective. She is the author of the award-winning book Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30! (Yale University Press, 2013) and curator of the critically acclaimed exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Museum of Latin American Art, 2017). A 2017-18 Getty Scholar, Flores received the 2016 Arts Writers book prize from the Andy Warhol Foundation and was the 2007-2008 Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is former president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) and served as chair of the editorial board of Art Journal. Flores authored to award-winning and widely cited article “‘Latinidad Is Cancelled’: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct,” published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture in 2021, and is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (2023).