Davida Fernandez-Barkan

Davida Fernandez-Barkan

20th Century
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Davida Fernández-Barkan's work interrogates the role of art in issues of cultural diplomacy, Indigeneity, and decolonization. Her dissertation, titled "International Arte Popular: Mexican, American, and French Muralism, 1920–1940" tracks Mexico's export of modern muralism to the United States and France during the period between World War I and World War II. She is also a scholar of contemporary art, with a particular interest in the implications of inter-war public art for feminist, Latinx, and social practices. Fernández-Barkan's methodology prioritizes collaboration with communities whose interests are affected by works of art. She has worked or interned in curatorial departments at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, the National Gallery of Art, Tate Britain, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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