Temple University

María de Lourdes Mariño is an independent researcher and curator, currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Temple University. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art from Latin America and the Caribbean, including its diaspora. Her scholarship relies on theories of postcoloniality and decoloniality as conceptual frameworks to unravel the region's race, class, gender, political, and economic power relationships as presented through the history of art.  

Mariño's research interest centers on the history of Cuban art from 1980 to the present, focusing on the history of performance and video art. She interrogates the role of politics in the production and promotion of Cuban art and its recent developments into diverse diasporic communities. Additionally, Mariño reflects on the memory-building processes happening through the arts in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. Her most recent essay, "Decolonizing La Revolución: Cuban Artistic Practice in a Liminal Space," is scheduled for publication in The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (November 2023).   

Mariño's teaching experience includes topics like Arts of World in the Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Also, she teaches a survey in Caribbean Art as an Adjunct Faculty in the Associate in Arts Program (AAP) at the University of Delaware (Fall 2022-2023). Previously, Mariño taught for the Department of Art Theoretical Studies in the School of Visual Arts and the Department of Cuban Studies at the University of the Arts (ISA), La Habana, Cuba, 2007-2015. 

 Dissertation Title: Performing disidentifications in transnational Cuba: Carlos Martiel, Susana Delahante, Yali Romagoza and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara (2009-2021). 

MPA, Nonprofit Management (Arts and Culture), University of Delaware, 2018 
BA, Art History, University of Havana, Cuba, 2007 

Advisor: Mariola Alvarez, PhD