INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Luis Armando Hernández Cuevas obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the UNAM. Since 2022, he has worked at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he established the Aión Research Group on Ancient Philosophy, and has recently taken on the role of Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Philosophy. He has published several articles. The most recent ones are The Paradox of Speaking in One’s Own Name, Cosmopolitanism in Light of Allagmatics, and The Capture and Uprising of David Alfaro Siqueiros: On How to Obtain an Own Name in Painting. He also coordinated the book Deleuze and Cartography.
Magali Lara is an artist and a professor of painting at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Her practice of “visual poetry” includes painting, drawing, artists' books, ceramics, tapestry and, more recently, video animation. She had several solo shows, including Mi versión de los hechos at MUCA in Mexico City (2004-5); Glaciares at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin (2010); Infancia y Eso at WALDEN Gallery in Buenos Aires (2016); Interioridad en el Jardín. Pinturas 1985-2016 at Jardín Borda in Cuernavaca, Del verbo “Estar” at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City (2017). She has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte since 1994.
Margarita de Orellana (IDSVA Honorary Doctorate, 2023) holds a PhD in History from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. In 1977 she founded in France the Latin American Feminist Magazine, Herejías. In 1988, together with Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, de Orellana founded the cultural project Artes de México. Mainly a publishing house, Artes de México has published more than 400 books and pamphlets exploring the multiple Mexican histories and cultures that comprise modern Mexico. De Orellana is the author of numerous books on popular Mexican arts, cinema, and history.
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez (IDSVA Honorary Doctorate, 2023) is a Mexican writer (PhD in Paris University), author of 30 books of poetry, novels and essays translated into 12 languages and awarded in France, Saint Petersburg, Spain and Mexico. He is co-editor, with Margarita De Orellana, of the magazine and publishing house Artes de México. His last book published in English is Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador, White Pine Press.
The IDSVA Mexico City residency is part of the three-year course of study. IDSVA PhD students attend five residencies, each at a different and exciting location.
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