
Miriam Basilio
Associate Professor, Art History and Museum Studies
Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain; modern Spanish and Latin American art; the history of collecting and exhibitions of Latin American art in the United States; memory studies; histories of global biennials; art and political activism.
NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship - 2010
Centro de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Fundación Carolina Travel Grant - 2003
Institute of Fine Arts, Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship 1994 - 1998; 1999 - 2001
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities - Honorable Mention List, 1999 - 2000
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship - for dissertation research in Spain 1998-1999
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities Grant 1998
NYU King Juan Carlos I Center-Coca Cola Summer Grant - for Research in Spain 1998
Rockefeller Foundation/College Art Association Travel Grant 1995
Institute of Fine Arts, Levy Travel Fellowship 1994
Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Institute of Fine Arts
Museum Collection Displays and Canon-Formation: The Museum of Modern Art and the Category “Latin American art” [working title] (Under contract with Routledge Press for publication in Research in Museum Studies series)
Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Surrey, UK and Burlington, NY: Ashgate, 2013/London and New York: Routledge, 2016)
Retratos Hablados/Spoken Portraits Essay and drawings (Barcelona: Mudito & Co. 2020, English and Spanish)
“Staging the Reconquest: The 1940 Exposición de la Hispanidad” Arts and Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War edited by Robert Lubar Messeri, Eugenia Afinoguénova and Silvina Gesser (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press)
“Recuperando a Elaine L. Johnson, comisaria entre campos enfrentados en The Museum of Modern Art durante la Guerra Fría,” in Atlántico frío: historias transnacionales del arte y la política en los tiempos del telón de acero, Paula Barreiro-López, ed. (Madrid: Brumaria, 2018)
“Evolving Taxonomies at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and ‘40s and the Definitions of the “Latin American Collection,”” in Edward J. Sullivan, ed. The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Latin American Art in the United States (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), pp. 28-43.
“"First Win the War!” Kati Horna, Gendered Images, and Political Discord During the Spanish Civil War,” in Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press (New York: Americas Society, forthcoming, 2017)
The "Exhibition of Government Posters" (1937) en The Museum of Modern Art: Carteles republicanos cómo modelos de diseño vanguardista y de efectividad pedagógica, in Miguel Cabañas Bravo and Wifredo Rincón, eds. El arte y sus redes de proyección, circulación y estudio en los siglos XX y XXI. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, forthcoming 2014)
"Equipo Crónica: Art History, Narrative Figuration, and Critical Realism," in Robert Lubar and Dolores Jiménez Blanco, Eds. Transatlantic Dialogues (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2014)
"Esto lo vio Picasso: Goya, los grabados satíricos, el realismo, y la propaganda republicana en guerra, Manuel Borja-Villel and Rosario Peiro eds. Años Treinta: Teatro de la Crueldad, lugar de encuentro (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2013)
"'Serial Effects': Picasso's Response to Propaganda and Atrocities" in Picasso: Vinyetes al front (Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2011) pp. 102-111, 190-194.
"Museums for the People: David Seymour's Photographs of the Duque of Alba's Palace in Madrid, 1936," in Cynthia Young, Ed. The Mexican Suitcase (New York: International Center of Photography, 2010), pp. 69-70. (Spanish Ed. Madrid: La Fábrica Editorial and Fundación Pablo Iglesias, 2011)
"Esto lo vió Goya, esto lo vemos nosotros: Goya en la Guerra Civil Española." In Actas, Jordana Mendelson, Ed. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2008), pp. 99-116.
"Catalans! Catalunya: Posters and Propaganda in Catalonia During the Spanish Civil War." In William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord eds. Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí, Picasso, Miró, Dalí (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 436-449. Reviewed: Robert Davidson "Barcelona Triomfant," Modernism/Modernity 15:2 (April 2008).
"The Alcazar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940." In Architecture and Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space. D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004; Spanish Ed. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2006), pp. 93-107.
"Reflecting on a History of Collecting and Exhibiting Work by Artists from Latin America," and short entries. In Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, Eds. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo (New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004), pp. 52-68, 98-102, 122-125, 155-158, 159-162.
"Field Notes from a 'Native Informant,'" in None of the Above, Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists (Hartford: Real Art Ways in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2005).
"Genealogies for a New State: Painting and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 24:3 (Nov. 2003).
With Paulo Herkenhoff and Roxana Marcoci, “A Tempo Lexicon," Tempo, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
Undergraduate:
Art and Politics: The Case of the Spanish Civil War
Exhibitions: Curating Global Art
Global Biennials
Museums and the Art Market
Spanish Art 1898-Present
Graduate:
Topics in Museum Studies: Debates, Challenges and and Collaborations in Art Museum Curating
Topics in Museum Studies: Exhibiting Latin American Art in the United States, 1931-present
Topics in Museum Studies: Blockbusters and Building Booms: Spectacle and Uncertainty
Thesis Research Seminar
2019 - 2020
Lead curator with Reference Assistant Danielle Nista and students Alexia Arrizuerieta, Rachael Gamson, Gabriella Matos, Julia Sipowicz and Malika Shuck for Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War From New York University’s Tamiment Library Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. NYU Kimmel Windows, the project was the result of an Art History seminar, Art and Politics: The Case of the Spanish Civil War. [Postponed due to the pandemic, scheduled for Spring 2023]
2002 - 2005
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York- Co-curator with Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas from MoMA and Fatima Bercht and Deborah Cullen from El Museo del Barrio of MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2003)
2001 - 2002
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York- Co-curator with Paulo Herkenhoff and Roxana Marcoci of Tempo (2002)
Contact Information
Miriam Basilio
Associate Professor, Art History and Museum Studies miriam.basilio@nyu.edu 303 Silver Center100 Washington Square E
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8565