Women in Latin American art

on Talita Trizoli

Dates: May 25, June 01, 08, 15, 22 and 29, 2026
Mondays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 6 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R$ 480,00 + fees

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Includes certificate at the end

This course will present case studies of women artists working in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, highlighting the variety of languages ​​and themes in their work. Applying a feminist perspective to these cases will help us understand the social position of these women within the artistic community and the strategies they used to advance their careers.

Since the 1970s, there has been extensive discussion about the construction of a cultural identity in Latin America, and the issue of the role of women artists, feminist or not, is relatively recent in this context, given the predominance of male names in historiography. The exhibition Radical women: Latin American art, 1960-1985The exhibition, held in 2018 at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, solidified a body of research and material, much of which is still unpublished for students, researchers, artists, and others interested in the history of these professionals, especially considering the limited presence of Latin American art history courses in our art curricula – but many names were left out of this selection, and some of them will be discussed in this course.

Agenda

Lesson 1 – Latin American art: for whom?

• The political dimension of the classification of Latin American art.
• Authors who claim a Spanglish language and omit Portuguese in the historiography of art.

Lesson 2 – Women Artists in Latin America: Feminists and Non-Feminists

• Gender framing in the context of Latin American art.
• Feminisms in Latin America and the refusals of connection.
• The exposure Radical women: Latin American art, 1960-1985

Lesson 3 – Case studies from the south to the Latin north 1

• Gladys Afamado and Nelbia Romero (Uruguay)
• Liliana Maresca and Delia Cancela (Argentina)
• Cecilia Vicuña and Roser Bru (Chile)
• Tilsa Tsuchiya Castillo and Julia Chambi López (Peru)

Lesson 4 – Case studies from the south to the Latin north 2

• Beatriz Gonzales and Feliza Bursztyn (Colombia)
• Elsa Gramcko and Elsa Morales (Venezuela)
• Inês Córdova and María Esther Ballivián (Bolivia)
• Olga Blinder and Margarita Morsell (Paraguay)

Lesson 5 – Case studies from the south to the Latin north 3

• Zilia Sánchez and Antonia Eiriz (Cuba)
• Rina Lazo and Margarita Azurdia (Guatemala)
• Victoria Cabezas and Emilia Prieto Tugores (Costa Rica)
• Awilda Sterling-Duprey and Poli Marichal (Puerto Rico)

Lesson 6 – Case studies from the south to the Latin north 4

• Magali Lara, Mónica Mayer, Lourdes Groubet and Paulina Lavista (Mexico)
• Márcia-X, Lygia Pape, Regina Silveira and Iole de Freitas (Brazil)

Talita Trizoli

Teacher, curator and researcher. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at IEB-USP, where she investigates art criticism by women in Brazil. PhD from FE-USP and Master from PGEHA-USP, with research in the area of ​​art and feminism in Brazil, with an emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s. She has publications in national and international magazines, and activities in art criticism, research, curating and teaching, with his research being a reference for art and gender studies in Brazil.

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Image: Mira Schendel, Untitled (from the Fruits series), 1983. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo. Photo: Romulo Fialdini.