Diana Iturralde is the Cisneros Institute Research Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Rutgers University. She specializes in modern and contemporary art of Latin America. Her dissertation work examines visual representations of cultural and environmental transformations in the Andean-Amazon region from the late nineteenth century to the present, from an environmentalist perspective. She has participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership seminar in 2023, and the Getty Foundation’s The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland seminar, 2023-2025. Diana has also been collaborating as a member of the curatorial committee for the exhibition Amazonia Açu, hosted by the Americas Society from September 2025 to April 2026. At Rutgers, Diana is affiliated to the Andean-Amazonian Studies and Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice Working Groups.
This public program brought together Nancy Adajania, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Frida Muenala from Mullu for an evening of inquiry into forms and practices of gathering. The speakers, who represent diverse practices in the cultural fields—from art making to curation to institutional leadership—and operate across vast geographies, unpacked their different approaches to assemblies. Among the…
