Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

Anamaría Garzón Mantilla is an art historian and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Garzón Mantilla is a PhD candidate in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, director of the academic journal post(s) and co-director of the critical pedagogies laboratory Arte + Activismos. In 2022, she co-edited Estado Fósil, a multimedia project that explores oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazonia. Estado Fósil was awarded with the National Prize Mariano Aguilera in Ecuador. In 2023, Garzón Mantilla was the Jane Farver Curatorial Fellow at ISCP (NYC) and a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Independent Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has received research grants from the Getty Foundation, CIMAM, and her research has been presented at International conferences such as LASA and CAA.