Areas of Expertise
- Chicana and Latina Feminism
- Chicanx and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
- Chicanx and Latin American Muralism and Graffiti
Education
- Ph.D., Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
- M.A., Art History, University of Cincinnati, 1995
- B.S., Art, University of Southern Indiana, 1993
Guisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American art with a special emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. She is the author of Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (2008). In addition, she was co-curator and co-author of the exhibition/book ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (2017). Her other publications include “The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art’s Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation” in The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies (2018) and “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism” in Street Art of Resistance (2017). She is currently working on an anthology on the arts collective Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.
Book Publications
- Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (Ohio State University Press, 2019).
- ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (Angel City Press, 2017).
- Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California, (University of Texas Press, 2008).
