Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Institute of Fine Arts
Project: Constructing the Idea of Latin American Art: Discourse and Discord in the U.S. in the 1960s
Delia Solomons is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts specializing in 20th-century art of the Americas and Europe. She earned her BA in Art History and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and an MA in Art History from New York University. Her dissertation examines the reception and exhibition of Latin American art in the United States from 1959–1966, the years directly following the Cuban Revolution. She has worked as an Adjunct Professor at NYU, Writer/Researcher/Editor at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Curatorial Assistant at the Grey Art Gallery. Her writings have been published in In the Distance (MIT, 2011), Notation: Contemporary Art as Idea and Process (Washington University in St. Louis, 2012), Encuentros con los ’30 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2012), and Journal of Curatorial Studies (forthcoming).