Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

Research Scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

09/06/2021 - 12/31/2021

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a Research Scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. An independent British/Venezuelan art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art, she is focused on Latin American and Latinx art. Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England, and an MA and a Postgraduate Diploma in 20th Century Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. She has published and curated extensively on contemporary Latin American and international art. She co-curated and co-edited the catalogue for the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960–1985 (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017), a Getty initiative PST LA/LA. She is editor of the upcoming book Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction, on post 90s abstraction in Latin America, and is co-editor of a book on 20th- and 21st-century Guatemalan art, an initiative of Arte GT 20/21 in Guatemala. In 2020 she received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. At the Clark, she will be working on a book on Decolonial Debates for Latin American and Latinx Art in the 20th and 21st Century, focusing on feminism and gender, ethnicity, indigeneity, African heritage, and popular culture.