Karen Cordero

Karen Cordero Reiman is an art historian, curator and writer. She was born in the U.S., but has lived and worked in Mexico since 1982. She has been a professor in the Art Department of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and the graduate program in Art History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and is a founding member of Curare, A CriticalSpace for the Arts. She is the author of numerous publications in her areas of specialization: twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican art; the relationship between the so-called “fine arts” and the so-called “popular arts” in Mexico; the historiography of Mexican art; body, gender and sexual identity in Mexican art; and museological and curatorial discourses in Mexico.  In addition, she has had a continuous participation in museums as curator, advisor and researcher. Currently she works as an independent researcher and curator, as well as on personal creative projects that relate to art, literature, history, and feminist activism.