María de Lourdes Mariño(She/Her) is an independent curator and researcher, currently a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University, where she specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art from Latin America and the Caribbean, including its diaspora.

Mariño’s teaching experience includes Global Arts, Latin American and Caribbean Art, and Art & Activism at Temple University, the University of Delaware, and The College of New Jersey. In Havana, she also taught Cuban Art and Theory of Art Criticism at the University of the Arts (ISA), while working as an Independent Art Curator of alternative exhibitions outside official gallery spaces (2007-2015).  

Her research examines Cuban art from 1980 to the present within its broad transnational networks, focusing on how exhibition displays in Cuba, Mexico, and the US reflect changing ideas about nationhood. Her essay, “Decolonizing La Revolución: Cuban Artistic Practice in a Liminal Space,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (2023), and “Malditas/Damned: Sandra Ceballos and the practice of curatorial coalitions at Espacio Aglutinador Gallery in Havana,” is forthcoming. During the summer, she participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL)/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice (July 2026). Mariño is a Goizueta Fellow (2024) at the University of Miami and the Inaugural Audrey Flack Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and National Portrait Gallery (NPG) 2024-2025.

 

Advisor: Mariola Alvarez, PhD