Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British/ Venezuelan art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art, currently based in California.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England, and an MA in 20th Century Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.
POSITIONS (1995-present)
Between 2013 and 2017, she was guest curator at the Hammer Museum and a visiting scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles. Fajardo-Hill is also Curator of California, and Abstractioninaction.com and between 2013-2016 she was Chief Curator of the SPACE Collection, Irvine, focusing on post 1990s abstraction in Latin America. Fajardo-Hill was the Chief Curator and Vice-President of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA in Long Beach, California between 2009 and 2012. She was the Director and Chief curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO) –a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of contemporary art from Latin America-, and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection –an international collection of contemporary art-, Miami, USA between 2005 and 2008. She was general director of Sala Mendoza, an alternative space for contemporary art in Caracas, Venezuela, between 1997 and 2001.
She was co-curator with Andrea Giunta of the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, a survey of radical artistic practices by women artists in Latin America and Latina artists which opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in the Fall of 2017 under the umbrella of the Getty initiative PST LA/LA, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum and concludes at Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo in the Summer of 2018. Fajardo-Hill was the curator of the multi platform project on contemporary abstraction in Latin America, Abstraction in Action, which encompassed exhibitions and publications: and in 2017. Presently she is co-editing together with José Falconi, two tomes on 20th and 21th – century art Guatemalan art, an initiative of Harvard University and Arte GT 20/21.
Fajardo-Hill has written on artists such as Laura Anderson, Débora Arango, Magdalena Atria, José Bedia, Teresa Burga, Adriana Bustos, Johanna Calle, Pia Camil, Elías Crespín, Gabriel de la Mora, Jimmie Durham, Mona Hatoum, Artur Lescher, Esteban Lisa, Maria Evelia Marmolejo, Solange Pessoa, Luis Roldán, and about contemporary and modern art.
Supervisors: PhD Tutor Dawn Ades
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England, and an MA in 20th Century Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.
POSITIONS (1995-present)
Between 2013 and 2017, she was guest curator at the Hammer Museum and a visiting scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles. Fajardo-Hill is also Curator of California, and Abstractioninaction.com and between 2013-2016 she was Chief Curator of the SPACE Collection, Irvine, focusing on post 1990s abstraction in Latin America. Fajardo-Hill was the Chief Curator and Vice-President of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA in Long Beach, California between 2009 and 2012. She was the Director and Chief curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO) –a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of contemporary art from Latin America-, and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection –an international collection of contemporary art-, Miami, USA between 2005 and 2008. She was general director of Sala Mendoza, an alternative space for contemporary art in Caracas, Venezuela, between 1997 and 2001.
She was co-curator with Andrea Giunta of the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, a survey of radical artistic practices by women artists in Latin America and Latina artists which opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in the Fall of 2017 under the umbrella of the Getty initiative PST LA/LA, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum and concludes at Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo in the Summer of 2018. Fajardo-Hill was the curator of the multi platform project on contemporary abstraction in Latin America, Abstraction in Action, which encompassed exhibitions and publications: and in 2017. Presently she is co-editing together with José Falconi, two tomes on 20th and 21th – century art Guatemalan art, an initiative of Harvard University and Arte GT 20/21.
Fajardo-Hill has written on artists such as Laura Anderson, Débora Arango, Magdalena Atria, José Bedia, Teresa Burga, Adriana Bustos, Johanna Calle, Pia Camil, Elías Crespín, Gabriel de la Mora, Jimmie Durham, Mona Hatoum, Artur Lescher, Esteban Lisa, Maria Evelia Marmolejo, Solange Pessoa, Luis Roldán, and about contemporary and modern art.
Supervisors: PhD Tutor Dawn Ades
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Papers by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
“Latina Art through the Lens of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985” (co-authored with Marcela Guerrero), Diálogo, Center for Latino Research, DePaul University, Chicago, Fall 2017.
(traveling between Chicago, and London) and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill*, (in Los Angeles, Ecuador, and Brooklyn) which took place between March 6 and April 26, 2018. Published digitally on the occasion of his receiving 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
https://herbalpertawards.org/artist/rakowitz-chapter-one
Philosophical approximation on Gabriel de la Mora's processual work.
This paper focuses on performance as the locus for exploring and resisting violence in Latin America
This paper proposes alternative non canonical models for thinking modernity in Latin American.
a twenty-five-year period of production. The exhibition is organized by subject matter (from the artist and his family to urban life to car culture), location (Los Angeles and Mexico), and approach (traditional printing, superimposition, mixed media)
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Essays by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Armando Cristeto Patiño, Jesse Lerner. Foreword by Karen Rapp and Chon A. Noriega. Published by Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College in collaboration with UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles.
"In this catalog Fajardo-Hill (currently a CSRC visiting scholar) argues for Valverde’s importance as an experimental artist whose extensive body of work contributes a
“critical and creative rethinking of the medium of photography.”
(...) she also makes the case for the significance that Chicano and Latino art have for art history of the Americas". Chon Noriega
“Latina Art through the Lens of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985” (co-authored with Marcela Guerrero), Diálogo, Center for Latino Research, DePaul University, Chicago, Fall 2017.
(traveling between Chicago, and London) and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill*, (in Los Angeles, Ecuador, and Brooklyn) which took place between March 6 and April 26, 2018. Published digitally on the occasion of his receiving 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
https://herbalpertawards.org/artist/rakowitz-chapter-one
Philosophical approximation on Gabriel de la Mora's processual work.
This paper focuses on performance as the locus for exploring and resisting violence in Latin America
This paper proposes alternative non canonical models for thinking modernity in Latin American.
a twenty-five-year period of production. The exhibition is organized by subject matter (from the artist and his family to urban life to car culture), location (Los Angeles and Mexico), and approach (traditional printing, superimposition, mixed media)
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Essays by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Armando Cristeto Patiño, Jesse Lerner. Foreword by Karen Rapp and Chon A. Noriega. Published by Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College in collaboration with UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles.
"In this catalog Fajardo-Hill (currently a CSRC visiting scholar) argues for Valverde’s importance as an experimental artist whose extensive body of work contributes a
“critical and creative rethinking of the medium of photography.”
(...) she also makes the case for the significance that Chicano and Latino art have for art history of the Americas". Chon Noriega