External Advisors
Dawn Ades
Department of Art History & Theory
University of Essex
Dawns Ades is a fellow of the British Academy, a Trustee of the Tate and was awrded an OBE in 2002 for services to art history. Over the past 30 years she has been responisble for many important exhibitions both in London and overseas including "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed", "Art in Latin America", and the highly successful centenenary exhibition of Salvador Dali shown in Venice and Philadelphia in 2004.
As well as writing standard texts on Surrealism, Dada and photomontage, Dawn's longstanding enagagment with the art of Latin America is reflected in publications such as "Art in Latin America: the Modern Era 1820-1980", "Figures and Likenesses: the Paintings of Siron Franco", as well as articles on artists such as Francisco Toldeo and Jose Clemente Orozco. She was also a founder of ESCALA, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America.
Oriana Baddeley
TrAIN - The Research Centre for Transnational Art Identity and Nation
University of the Arts London
Oriana Baddeleley is Professor of Art History and Director of Research at Camberwell College of Arts, Deputy Director of TrAIN, a member of the International Advisory committee of UECLAA, the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, and an advisory editor of the Oxford Art Journal.
She completed her doctorate at the University of Essex and her thesis "The Cacaxtla Murals" later formed the basis for the 1992 Hayward exhibition "The Art of Ancient Mexico". She has written and published extensively on contemporary Latin American art, including "Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America" co-authored with Valerie Fraser (Verso 1989), and collaborated with Gerardo Mosquera and inIVA in the production of "Beyond the Fantastic" (inIVA/MIT 1996).
Recent publications include an essay on ancient Mexican sources within early modern architecture in the catalogue for "Art Deco" at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A, 2003), and an essay on contemporary responses to Frida Kahlo for the Tate Modern exhibition "Frida" (Tate, 2005).
Guy Brett
Camberwell College of the Arts
University of the Arts London
Guy Brett is critic, curator and lecturer on art. He worked as Art Critic for The Times from 1964-74, and was also a founding member of Signals Gallery, which held a series of exhibitions between 1964-66 showing the works of artists such as Jesus Raphael Soto, Sergio Camargo, Lygia Clarke and Hélio Oiticica. He later played a fundamental role in facilitating Oiticaca's major London exhibiton, "The Whitechapel Experiement", held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1969.
He has cuurated a number of influential exhibitons including "Motion", an international show of kinetic art for the Arts Council of Great Britain (1966), "Li Yuan-chia: Tell Me What Is Not Yet Said" Camden Arts Centre, London (2001), "Mindfields: Boris Gerrets" Kiasma, Helsinki (2002), and "Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic" MACBA in Barcelona and Hayward Gallery in London (2001).
He is the author of many books including "Kinetic Art, the Language of Movement" (1968), "Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern History" (1987), "Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists" (1990), "Brasil Experimental: Arte/Vida Proposicoes e Paradoxos" , and has published numerous monographic essays on artists such as Lygia Clarke, Eugenio Dittborn, Victor Grippo, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, David Medalla, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape and Aubrey Williams. He was also the Visual Arts Editor for the London weekly City Limits (1981-83).
His most recent publications include "Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on Art" (inIVA, 2004) a collection of essays from 1976-2002, "Oiticica in London" co-edited with Luciano Figueiredo and released to coincide with the "Oitica: the Body of Color" exhibiton at Tate Modern (Tate, 2007). He co-curated the Cildo Meireles retrospective at Tate Modern (2008-9), also editing the accompanying catalogue. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Camberwell College of the Arts.
Taína Caragol
The Graduate Center
CUNY - The City University of New York
Taína Caragol is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she is currently completing her thesis "Boom and Dust: Defining Latin American Art from New York Collections, Exhibitions, and Auction Houses. 1970s-1980s".
Between 2003 to 2007 she was the Latin American Bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library and Project Coordinator of the "Survey of Archives of Latino and Latin American Art", an initiative financed by the Metropolitan New York Library Council.
She was an AHRC Research Fellow in 2007-8 for the research project "Latin American Art in the UK" working alongside Valerie Fraser and Isobel Whitelegg at the University of Essex. She has published essays and articles on contemporary Latino and Latin American artists, particularly on the importance of institutional archives in understanding the history and historiography of Latino and Latin American Art.
Andrea Giunta
College of Fine Arts and the Department of Art & Art History
University of Texas at Austin
Andrea Giunta is Professor of Art History, specialising in Latin American Art, at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also Co-Director with Roberto Tejada of the Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art and the Center for Latin American Visual Studies.
She recieved her doctorate from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she worked as Professor from 1987, and has also held positions at the Universidad de San Martin, University of Monterrey, Duke University and Princeton.
Her books include "Post Crisis - Art Argentino después del 2001" (Siglo XXI, 2009), "Goeritz/Romero Brest - Correspondecias" (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000), and "Vanguardia, Internacionalismo y Política - Arte Argentino en los Años Sesenta" (Paidos, 2001 & 2003, Siglo XXI 2008) which was translated by Duke University Press in 2007 and was awarded "Best Scholarly Book on the Art of Latin America from Precolumbian Era to the Present" by the Association of Latin American Art and "Best Book of the Year" by the Argentinian Association of Art Critics.
She has edited and co-edited works on artists such as Cándido Portinari, León Ferrari and Mira Schendal, the critic Jorge Romero Brest, and also curated the León Ferrari retrospective at the Centro Cultural Recoleta (2004) and the Museu de Art de São Paulo (2006).
Her forthcoming publications include "Metrópolis de Papel - Revistas y Redes Internationales en la Modernidad Artística Latinoamericano" and "El Guernica de Picasso entre Europa, Estados Unidos y América Latina" (Biblios, 2009).
Joanne Harwood
Essex Collection of Art from Latin America
Joanne Harwood is the Director of ESCALA, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, which is accredited by the UK's Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. As well as managing and developing the collection, Joanne researches and curates the ESCALA's display's, related exhibitons, and devises its public programmes.
She is a graduate of the University of Essex's Latin American Studies BA, its Latin American Art and Architecture MA, and completed her PhD thesis, "Disguising Ritual: A Re-assessment of the Codex Mendoza" in 2002, also at Essex.
As well as supporting ESCALA as a Curatorial Assistant and Advisor since the collection's inception in 1993, Joanne worked as a Senior Research Officer for ESCALA's online catalogue, before accepting the position of Curator of Latin American Collections at the British Library.
Joanne has made an extensive contribution to ESCALA's catalogue in the form of texts, research, and commisioning and translating many Artists' statements. Many of the entries relate to her interest in connections between contemporary and pre-Columbian art, while others stem from personal correspondence with ESCALA artists.
Recently she has collaborated with TeorÉtica in San José de Costa Rica in the the development of an exhibition of Central American Artists, "Yo No Tengo Patria", and is currently spearheading plans to create a new exhibition and storage space for ESCALA in the Hexagon building at the University. She has also recently overseen the rebranding of the collection and the relaunch of its website and catalogue.
