Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a Latina / British/ Venezuelan art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art, focusing on Latin American and Latinx art. Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England and an MA 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 artists. She co-curated Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2017, touring to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and to Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo in 2018. Is co-curator of Xican-a.o.x. Body, a touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, 2023 at the Cheech Center for Chicano Art in Riverside in June 2023; Perez Art Museum, Miami, June 2024. She is editor of Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022; and co-editor of Guatemala: A Critical Art History, 1870-2020, an initiative of Arte GT 20/21, Guatemala, 2024. In 2020 she received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to research the photographic work by pioneer Chicana artist Patssi Valdez, which is now an upcoming exhibition project. She was Visiting Scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center de UCLA, Los Angeles; 2020 Fellowship Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Lecturer Art History, Princeton University; Clark Fellow in residence at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2021, and 2021-22 Central American Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University, to develop a book on Decolonial Latin American and Latinx art history in the 20th and 21st centuries focusing on gender, race and ethnicity, indigeneity, African heritage, and popular culture. Fajardo-Hill is Program Director, Associate Professor of Museum Studies and Art History, Director of the Northlight Gallery, at the School of Art,  Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts,  Arizona State University.