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Conversation | "Feminist Frida"

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Sat. Apr. 18, 2026 2 PM-3 PM
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Conversation | "Feminist Frida"

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Sat. Apr. 18, 2026 2 PM-3 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
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In conjunction with Frida: The Making of an Icon, art historian and curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill sits down with artists Regina José Galindo, Magali Lara, and Delilah Montoya. The discussion centers around their discovery of Frida Kahlo as a feminist icon and ways in which the artist has inspired their practices.

Language interpretation services are provided for simultaneous translation through headset devices. 


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About the Speakers
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator with a focus on Latin American and Latinx art. Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in art history from the University of Essex, England, and was previously the chief curator and vice-president of curatorial affairs at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach; the director and chief curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO), Miami; and the general director of Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela. She co-curated the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985, at the Hammer Museum, is editor of the upcoming book Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction, and received the 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Fajardo-Hill is currently program director, associate professor of museum studies and art history, and director of the Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University. 

Regina José Galindo is a visual artist and poet with a focus on performance. She lives and works in Guatemala, where her work explores the ethical implications of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination. Furthermore, these radical actions bring focus to human rights abuses that have arisen from the endemic inequalities in power relations found throughout contemporary societies.

Magali Lara works in a variety of mediums, including painting, collage, artist's books, and installation. Her delicate abstract drawings and brushstrokes recall natural forms like flowers and rhizomes, and her pieces foreground the tension between the monumental and the precarious. The artist studied at the Universidad de Guadalajara and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Since the 1970s, she has explored biographical themes and societal sexist biases while collaborating with a number of prominent feminist artists. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. Lara lives in Cuernavaca, where she teaches at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.

Delilah Montoya is a photographer, printmaker, and installation artist based in the Southwest United States. Her works pose questions about identity, power, land, borders, gender, community, and family while addressing multiple histories and points of view. Her primary subject is the human condition through time and territory as seen through the lens of being a mestiza, a Chicana, and someone who claims a hybrid identity and place both in terms of lineage and culture. New Mexico's ethno-racial, religious, and socio-economic heritage has proved to be a fertile ground for her artistic explorations and collaborations with members of many disparate communities.


 

En el marco de la exposición Frida: The Making of an Icon, la historiadora de arte y curadora Cecilia Fajardo-Hill entabla una conversación con las artistas Regina José Galindo, Magali Lara, y Delilah Montoya. La charla girara en torno a cómo descubrieron a Frida Kahlo como un ícono feminista y de qué manera su obra ha influido en sus propias prácticas artísticas.

Se ofrecerán servicios de interpretación con traducción simultánea mediante audífonos.


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Cecilia Fajardo-Hill es una historiadora del arte y curadora británico-venezolana especializada en arte latinoamericano y latino en Estados Unidos. Tiene un doctorado en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Essex, en Inglaterra. A lo largo de su carrera ha ocupado cargos como curadora principal y vicepresidenta de asuntos curatoriales en el Museum of Latin American Art en Long Beach; directora y curadora principal de la Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) en Miami; y directora general de Sala Mendoza en Caracas, Venezuela. Fue co-curadora de la exposición Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960–1985 en el museo Hammer. También es editora del próximo libro Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction y recibió la Beca para Escritores de Arte 2020 de la Andy Warhol Foundation. Actualmente es directora de programas, profesora asociada de estudios museísticos e historia del arte, y directora de la Northlight Gallery en Arizona State University.

Regina José Galindo es una artista visual y poeta enfocada en el área de performance. Vive y trabaja en Guatemala, donde su obra aborda las implicaciones éticas de la violencia social y las injusticias relacionadas con la discriminación de género y raza. A través de acciones contundentes, su trabajo pone en evidencia abusos a los derechos humanos derivados de las desigualdades de poder presentes en las sociedades contemporáneas.

Magali Lara trabaja en diversos medios, incluyendo pintura, collage, libros de artista e instalación. Sus delicados trazos abstractos evocan formas naturales como flores y rizomas, mientras que su obra explora la tensión entre lo monumental y lo frágil. Desde la década de los setentas, ha abordado temas autobiográficos y críticas a los sesgos sexistas en la sociedad, colaborando con destacadas artistas feministas.

Su trabajo forma parte de colecciones como el Museum of Modern Art en Nueva York, el Museum of Latin American Art en California y el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. Actualmente vive en Cuernavaca, donde también es catedrática de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.

Delilah Montoya es fotógrafa, grabadora y artista de instalación radicada en el suroeste de Estados Unidos. Su obra explora temas de identidad, poder, territorio, fronteras, género, comunidad y familia, integrando múltiples historias y perspectivas. Su enfoque principal es la condición humana a través del tiempo y el espacio, vista desde su experiencia como mujer mestiza y chicana, con una identidad cultural híbrida que nutre su práctica artística. La riqueza étnico-racial, religiosa y socioeconómica de Nuevo México ha sido un terreno fértil para sus exploraciones artísticas y sus colaboraciones con comunidades diversas.


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The 49th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium receives generous support from The Brown Foundation, Inc.
 
Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.

“Frida: The Making of an Icon” is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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