Andrea Giunta completed her secondary studies at the Instituto Tierra Santa and the Escuela Normal Superior No. 4 in Buenos Aires.
She graduated with alicentiate in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at theUniversity of Buenos Aires (UBA), where she also obtained her PhD in philosophy with a specialization in arts.
She was the founding director of the Center for Documentation, Research, and Publications (CeDIP) at theCentro Cultural Recoleta of Buenos Aires (2006–2007)[2] and a member of the advisory committee that directed theNational Museum of Fine Arts (2006–2007).[3]
In 2006, Giunta received a Harrington Fellowship from theUniversity of Texas at Austin,[4] where she was Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism and founding director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) from 2009 to 2013.[5] In this position she directed three conferences for emerging researchers in art studies in Latin America.[6]
Giunta's research work focuses on Argentine, Latin American, and international art from thepostwar period to the present. The axis of her contributions lies in the power of images, their political uses, as well as in the debates they provoke in different contexts. In this sense, she has analyzed the internationalization processes of Argentine and Latin American art in the context of theCold War in its Latin American theater, characterized by theCuban Revolution, theCuban Missile Crisis, and theAlliance for Progress. She has also examined the controversies that the works of artistLeón Ferrari produced within the Argentine church,[10] and made a particular study ofGuernica by Pablo Picasso, and the power that the work has built in its tours of different museums and galleries of the world.[9] Her research also deals with the visual strategies of images in relation tohuman rights and dictatorships, particularly in Argentina.[11] She has developed research ongender studies since the early 1990s, and has included afeminist perspective since the 2010 exhibitRadical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Hammer Museum andBrooklyn Museum, 2017,Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2018).[12]
In her publications, the concept of "simultaneousavant-gardes" – as opposed to "peripheral" or "decentralized" avant-gardes – is central, referring to such artistic movements since 1945 in different metropolises of the world. These include the "emancipation of bodies", referring to the process produced by feminists artists from the 1960s to the 1980s, the "mobile monument-memorial", conceptualizing Picasso'sGuernica,[13] and "manifest images", analyzing the power of images in the modern art of Latin America.
Giunta has curated national and international exhibitions, includingRadical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (co-curated withCecilia Fajardo-Hill [es]),Verboamérica (co-curated with Agustín Pérez Rubio),Extranjeros en la cultura y en la tecnología (co-curated withNéstor García Canclini),León Ferrari. Obras 1976–2008 (co-curated with Liliana Piñeiro),León Ferrari Retrospectiva, 1954–2004, and[en tránsito] señales presentes (co-curated with Paloma Porrás).
She works as the principal investigator of Argentina'sNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), a RegularFull Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (History of American Art II), and RegularAssociate Professor of Modern and Contemporary International Art (History of the Plastic Arts VI) at UBA's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She is a researcher at UBA's Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies (IIEGE).
1989 Jorge Feinsilber Biennial Art Critics' Award, Jorge Feinsilber Foundation, Buenos Aires
1991 Argentine Art Critics' Association, best essay of the year
1994 Award for scientific production, University of Buenos Aires
2001 Argentine Art Critics' Association, best essay of the year
2002 Argentine Art Critics' Association, best book of the year forVanguardia, internacionalismo y política. Arte argentino en los sesenta
2002 Arvey Foundation Book Award from the Association for Latin American Art forVanguardia, internacionalismo y política. Arte argentino en los sesenta[14]
Cultura y política en los años '60 (Co-ed, et al.), Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences, 1997,ISBN9789502903750
Goeritz/Romero Brest. Correspondencias, Instituto de Teoría en Investigaciones Estéticas "Julio E. Payró", University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 2000
Vanguardia, internacionalismo y política. Arte argentino en los sesenta, Paidós, Buenos Aires-Barcelona, 2001, 2003,ISBN9789501265224
Jorge Romero Brest. Escritos I (1928–1939) (Co-ed, et al.), University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Buenos Aires, 2004,ISBN9789502907710
Listen, here, now! Argentine art in the 1960s: Argentine art in the 1960s: writings of the avant-garde (Co-ed. Inés Katszenstein),Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004,ISBN9780870703669
El caso Ferrari: arte, censura y libertad de expresión en la retrospectiva de León Ferrari en el Centro Cultural Recoleta 2004–2005, Licopodio, Buenos Aires, 2008,ISBN9789872056964
León Ferrari, Works 1976–2008 (Ed.), Editorial RM, Mexico City, 2008,ISBN9788492480241
Vanguardia, internacionalismo y política. Arte argentino en los años sesenta (revised and expanded edition), Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, 2008, 2015,ISBN9789876290562
El Guernica de Picasso. El poder de la representación: Europa, Estados Unidos y América Latina (Ed.), Biblos, Buenos Aires, 2009,ISBN9789507867705
Exposiciones de arte argentino, 1956–2006: la confluencia de historiadores, curadores e instituciones en la escritura de la historia, AAMNBA, Buenos Aires, 2009,ISBN9789871428038
Poscrisis. Arte argentino después del 2001, Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, 2009,ISBN9789876290814
Objetos mutantes: sobre arte contemporáneo, Palinodia, Santiago, 2010,ISBN9789568438289
Escribir las imaǵenes: ensayos sobre arte argentino y latinoamericano, Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, 2011,ISBN9789876291811
¿Cuándo empieza el arte contemporáneo? = When does the contemporary art begin?, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, 2014,ISBN9789872802332
Verboamérica (with Agustín Pérez Rubio), Buenos Aires, MALBA, 2016,ISBN9789874615442
