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Dr. Gina M Tarver

  • Professor - School of Art and Design
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Biography and education

Gina McDaniel Tarver, Professor of Art History at Texas State University, researches modern and contemporary art, art institutions, and visual culture in Latin America, specifically in Colombia. She received her Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin and was a Fulbright grant recipient. Her essays on Colombian art have appeared in books and journals in Colombia, Great Britain, France, and the United States. Her book, The New Iconoclasts: From Art of a New Reality to Conceptual Art in Colombia, 1961–1975 (Ediciones Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2016) is the first book in English about Colombian art of the 1960s and 1970s. She also co-edited a volume on art museums in Latin America, which is the first book in English on the topic.

Research Interests

  • Tarver, Gina M (Principal). Deep Entanglements: Art & Ecology in Colombia, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: June 2020 - Present). Grant.
  • Tarver, Gina M (Principal). Research Enhancement Program Grant, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Submitted: January 1, 2011). Grant.
  • Tarver, G. M. (2022). We Must Fight: Feliza Bursztyn and Colombian Women in the Arts. In M. Dziewańska & A. Winograd (Eds.), Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness (pp. 70–83). Milan, Italy: Skira, for the Muzeum Susch.
  • Tarver, G. M. (2020). ‘The roar of the river grows ever louder’: Polluted Waters in Colombian Eco-art, from Alicia Barney to Clemencia Echeverri. In L. Gómez-Popescu & L. Blackmore (Eds.), Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art. New York: Routledge.
  • Tarver, G. M. (2019). Antagonistic Environments: Gendered Spaces and the Kinetic Installations of Colombian Artists Feliza Bursztyn, Jacqueline Nova, and Julia Acuña. In A. M. Franco & M. Álvarez (Eds.), New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America. New York, United States: Routledge.
  • Greet, M., & Tarver, G. M. (Eds.). (2018). Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation. New York, United States of America: Routledge.
  • Tarver, G. M. (2016). The New Iconoclasts: From Art of a New Reality to Conceptual Art in Colombia, 1961–1975. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Universidad de los Andes.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Texas State University. August 1, 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly / Creative Activity, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Texas State University. August 1, 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: School Achievement Award for Service, College of Fine Arts & Communication. 2023
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