Maria Clara Bernal. 773 Juniper Walk apt E Goleta, CA USA (805) mariaclara.bernal@gmail.com

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1 Maria Clara Bernal 773 Juniper Walk apt E Goleta, CA USA (805) mariaclara.bernal@gmail.com Academic Background University of Essex, England Ph.D. Art History and Theory Dissertation title: Latin America Beyond Lo real maravilloso: Lam, Créolité and the Legacies of Surrealism University of Essex, England MA Art History and Theory Thesis title: Anthropophagi as an Aesthetic Practice: An Approach to Contemporary Readings of Cannibalism in the Visual Arts. An analysis of the work of Joaquín Torres-García, Mona Hatoum, the Antropofagia movement, Gabriel Orozco, Jana Sterbak and Lygia Clark Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá-Colombia Fine Arts Thesis title: Aproximaciones a la Memorial Socio-Cultural en el Arte Colombiano Actual. (Approaches to Social and cultural memory in Colombian Contemporary Art.) Professional Experience Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Surrealism in Latin America Research Project Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Associate Professor History and Theory of Art, Art Department

2 Head Postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art Visiting Arts, London, U.K. Coordinator of the Latin-American initiative A program devoted to promote Latin American art in the United Kingdom University Gallery, University of Essex, U.K. Gallery Assistant October 2002 Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, U.K. Guest speaker in the MA in Latin American Art 2000 Research Assistant For the book Building the New World by Professor Valerie Fraser Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá Colombia Assistant Curator Exhibitions Curator DisPlaced Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, U.K. October 2007 January Salones Regionales de Artistas Zona Centro, Various Venues, Bogotá, Tunja and Cali - Colombia September March 2008 Revelaciones Centro Colomboamericano, Bogotá - Colombia April 2006

3 Transit: Latin American art at the University Gallery, University of Essex. October 3 November The exhibition included works by Cildo Meireles, Nadin Ospina, Jac Leirner, Mariana Yampolsky and Eduardo Kac amongst others. Co- Curator Salón Artecámara, ARTBO. November 2006, Bogotá - Colombia Fotología 4 International Photography Festival Various venues 2005, Bogotá - Colombia Modernity and Identity: Architecture, the nature of the city Gallery 32, London November 7 December 4, 2002 Publications Books Displaced: Contemporary Art from Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes, 2007 Antología de textos críticos: Luis Camnitzer , Universidad de Los Andes, 2007 Más allá de lo real maravilloso: el surrealismo y el caribe, Universidad de Los Andes, 2006 Leon Ferrari: The Architecture of Madness, Catalogue for the exhibition, University of Essex, 2002 Articles and Chapters Tropiques: André Breton en el Caribe in Almanaque de Estudos Latino Americanos (February 2011) online journal published by the Department of Art and Cultural Studies of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Arte de lo Fantástico, Lo Real Maravilloso y Lo Maravilloso: Mitología de una idea en Man Ray: Colección Marion Meyer / Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá Banco de la República 2010.

4 El encantador de serpientes: Sueños de paisajes lejanos in Revista de Estudios Sociales No 30, Universidad de Los Andes, August 2008 Piezas en Conversación in ARTBO Catalogue. Bogotá, November 2006 Campo Santo Catalogue of the exhibition Campo Santo, Juan Fernando Herrán, Gallery Alcuadrado October 2006 Traducción/Translación: el arte en la esfera transcultural in Cuadernos Grises 2, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá 2006 Aproximaciones a lo transcultural en las artes visuales del Caribe in El Caribe en la nación colombiana, Observatorio del Caribe 2006 Questions on place and space in Latin American Art in LatinArt.com November Latin American dreams, Catalogue for the exhibition of Martin Weber, University of Essex, January 12 February El mundo en un objeto, Catalogue for the exhibition Memorabilia: trabajo reciente de Elsa Zambrano, Gallery Diners, Bogotá - Colombia, 2003 Transculturation: representing/reinventing Latin America, Catalogue for the exhibition Transit: Latin American art at the University Gallery, University of Essex, October 3 November Editor ARARA Online Review of art and architecture in Latin America Permanent collaborator in the review ArtNexus /Arte en Colombia since Some conference papers From South to South Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South. SAVA/CIHA University of Witwatersran, Johannesburg, January 2011 Anthology of freedom: Le pouvoir contagieux de la révolte. Vivísimo Muerto : Debates on Surrealism in Latin America. Getty Research Institute, June 2010 Art of the fantastic, the marvelous-real and the marvelous: myth and history of an idea.

5 Surrealism in Latin America Getty Research Institute, March 2009 A propósito de desplazamientos en el arte colombiano actual, ARTBO, November 2006 Aproximaciones a lo transcultural en las artes visuales del Caribe Symposium El Caribe en la nación colombiana. Museo Nacional de Colombia, October Place and Space in Latin American art Symposium Four lines: Creation, Collection, Education, Exhibition. University of Essex, April 2005 El artista latinoamericano en tránsito Symposium about research and creation. Universidad de Los Andes. May 2004 Carpentier s Lo real maravilloso and the reception of Surrealism in Latin America, Symposium New Perspectives on Surrealism and its Legacies. Tate Gallery, June 2003 Transculturation in Latin American Art, Conference Latin American art in Transit. University of Essex, October 25 26, 2002 Academic Awards Research Grant for Young Scholars, Academic Dean, Universidad de Los Andes, Researcher in residence at Apexart New York. February- March 2004 Finalist of Shine 2002 A program of the British Council to give recognition to the contribution of international students in the U.K. Scholarship from COLFUTURO

6 Committees Jury for the Luis Caballero Prize Bogotá Colombia Member of the curatorial committee at the Alianza Colombo-francesa Bogotá, Colombia 2008 Member of the curatorial committee at the Gallery Cuarto Nivel Bogotá, Colombia 2008 Member of the programming committee for the exhibition space at ASAB, Bogotá, Colombia, 2005 Member of the programming committee for the exhibition space at Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia Member of the International advisory board for the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA), U.K now. Languages Spanish (Native language) English French