María del Mar González-González
Assistant Professor of Art History
Education
- Ph.D. in art history - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.A. in art history - Indiana University Bloomington
- B.A. in visual arts - University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
About
María del Mar González-González, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of global modern and contemporary art history at Weber State University. She specializes in contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual art and culture with a focus on the intersection of art and politics.
Her research and teaching interests extend to socially engaged practices, decolonization, art biennials, the history of collecting and museums, and reprographic arts. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the University of Utah, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and Tinker Foundation.
Prior to her appointment at Weber State University, she taught at the California College of the Arts, University of Illinois, and University of Utah. She has also worked in art and culture institutions including the Getty Foundation, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her academic writing has been published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Caiana: Journal of Art History and Visual Culture of the Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, and in numerous art exhibition catalogs.