Dr Montgomery is the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College. She earned a Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Chicago and was a curator in the Print Department at the Museum of Modern Art. Her publications include “Enter for Free: Exhibiting Woodcuts on a Corner in Mexico City” (Art Journal, Winter 2012), “Displaying Indian Labor as Aesthetic Form in Mexico City and New York” (Modernism/modernity, Winter 2014) and Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic (Forthcoming, Pennsylvania State University Press), which she co-edited with James Elkins. She organized the exhibitions Open Work in Latin America, New York and Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978 (2013) at Hunter College and the Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (2005), among others. At Hunter she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, and global modernism and conceptualism.
Reflecting on the problematic term “Latin American Conceptualism,” Harper Montgomery’s text stems from a workshop at MoMA in which she and the C-MAP Latin America research group debated some of the issues surrounding the historicization of experimental art in Latin America. The workshop raised a number of questions that are broached below. This text was part of…
