Mónica Amor teaches modern and contemporary art with a focus on intermedial practices and transnational dialogues. Her approach is global and highlights the role of institutions and exhibitions in the production of cultural representation.
She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her research has been supported by fellowships at DRCLAS Harvard University, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, The Graham Foundation, and PLAS Princeton University among others. She has written art criticism and essays for Art Margins, Artforum, Art Journal, Art Nexus, Grey Room, October, Poliester, Third Text, Trans and numerous catalogues. She has curated several exhibitions, among them: "Altering History/Alternating Stories for the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas (1996), "Beyond the Document" for the Reina Sofia in Madrid (2000) "re-drawing the line" for Art in General in New York (2000), "Gego Defying Structures" for the Serralves Foundation in Porto (2006) and "Mexico: Expected/Unexpected" for Le Maison Rouge in Paris (2008). Her book, Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1968 was published in 2016 by The University of California Press. Her second book, Gego: Weaving the Space in Between was published by Yale University Press in the Spring of 2023.
Most recently Professor Amor has written on the work of Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen and has curated Maria Lai: To Be is to Weave at MADRE in Naples (through October 2026). She is currently working on a third book rethinking abstraction as intermedial, artisanal, residual.
Areas of Expertise
Postwar Abstraction / Histories of Sculpture / Alternative Taxonomies of Art History / Intermediality / Transnationalism / Modernities
Teaching Appointments
Parsons School of Design
SUNY New Paltz
Pratt Institute
Hunter College
UPenn
Università Iuav di Venezia
Current leadership positions
Curriculum Committee
Awards, Honors & Residencies
Franklin Research Grant / American Philosophical Society
Brenner Faculty Development Grant / Maryland Institute College of Art
Lucas Grant for Faculty Teaching / Maryland Institute College of Art
Brenner Faculty Development Grant / Maryland Institute College of Art
Brenner Faculty Development Grant / Maryland Institute College of Art
Graham Foundation. Publication grant.
Yale University Press. Gego: Weaving the Space In-between.
Brenner Faculty Development Grant / Maryland Institute College of Art
Franklin Research Grant / American Philosophical Society.