Iliana Cepero
Assistant Professor of Modern/Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies
Email
ceperoai@newschool.edu
Office Location
M - 68 Fifth Avenue
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Iliana Cepero (PhD Art History, Stanford University)听is听an art historian, curator, and critic,听and teaches courses on Latin American art and visual culture, histories and theories of photography, and Caribbean intellectual history. Her book, Art and Propaganda during Peronist Argentina, was published in 2025 by Brill as part of its Avant-Garde Critical Studies Series.听Among her peer-review essays are "Modern Art, National Culture, and Hispanophilia in Revista de Avance," Latin American Research Review (September听2025),听鈥淢art铆n Fierro, Argentine Nationalism and the Return to Order,鈥澨MODERNISM/modernity听(January 2019), 鈥淩eading Tatlin鈥檚 Tower in Socialist Cuba,鈥澨Art Journal, (Summer 2018), and 鈥淟uc Chessex, Robert Frank, and the Representation of Labour in the Magazine听Cuba/Cuba Internacional, 1968 and 1971,鈥澨Art History听(November 2018).听She curated the exhibition听Cuba Is, at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of the Getty鈥檚 initiative Pacific Standard Time LA/LA (September 2017), and听隆Cuba, Cuba! 65 years of Photography,听organized by the International Center of Photography at the Southampton Arts Center, Long Island, NY (August 2015).听
Professional Affiliation
American Alliance of Museums
Recent Publications
Art and Propaganda during Peronist Argentina.听Avant-Garde Critical Studies Series, vol. 47. Brill, 2025.
"Modern Art, National Culture, and Hispanophilia in听Revista de Avance." Latin American Research Review,听vol. 60, No. 3 (September 2025).
"Mart铆n Fierro, Argentine Nationalism and the Return to Order,鈥 MODERNISM/modernity, vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2019).
鈥淐uban Photography after 1959: Shifting Paradigms,鈥 in Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora. ed. Jorge Duany. University Press of Florida, 2019.
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Research Interests
Latin American avant-gardisms within the frame of cultural nationalisms.
Latin American photography, with an emphasis on the dynamics between photo practices and politics in the intellectual shaping of Latin American nations.
Cuban arts and culture in the post-revolutionary era.
History of Western photography.
Caribbean Intellectual History.
Awards And Honors
2012 - Recipient of the Fifth Annual Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in Photography Research, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
2003 - Christof and Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland.听 Curatorial residency at IAAB (International Exchange and Studio Program).
2003 - Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Aachen, Germany.听 Curatorial travel grant (visited Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Norway).