Gabriela Germana Roquez

Gabriela Germana Roquez is an independent Peruvian scholar. She received her bachelor’s degree in art history from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and her doctoral degree in the history and criticism of art from Florida State University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Andean art, with an emphasis on Indigenous and rural aesthetics and their critical relationship with the global art context. Her research addresses issues such as decolonial theories, visual sovereignty, feminist theories and gender studies, critical studies of race and ethnicity, and theories of circulation and regimes of value. From 2019 to 2021 she was visiting assistant professor in contemporary art history at the University of South Florida.

Germana has also worked as a researcher and curator at different museums in Lima and has developed several independent curatorial projects in Peru and the US. Among the most recent are Threads That Resist, Threats That Subvert Identities, Memories and Bodies in Peruvian Textile Art, and Resistance and Change: Tablas de Sarhua, Contemporary Paintings of the Peruvian Andes. Her research has been published in the journals Arts, Athanor, the Journal of Curatorial Studies, Anales del Museo de América, Illapa Mana Tukukuq, and Artesanías de América, and in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. She is co-editor, with Lesley Wolff, of the special issue of Arts “Rethinking Contemporary Latin American Art.”

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