Dr. Zanna Gilbert Lecture
Date and Time
- Thursday, Sep 17, 2026 5:30pm - 7pm
Location
Sheldon Museum of Art
451 N 12th St
Category
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Gilbert, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, presents on her exhibition “How to Be a Guerrilla Girl” and explores how archival and curatorial research illuminates the histories of feminist, conceptual and activist art practices.
About Dr. Zanna Gilbert
Dr. Zanna Gilbert is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. Her research focuses on transnational conceptual art, feminisms, and the international mail art network, with a particular focus on Latin America. She received an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award to complete her PhD at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex and Tate Research, where she researched and wrote about the museum’s collections of Latin American art. She was previously an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, where she led research on Latin America and was founding co-editor of the online publication post: notes on modern and contemporary art around the globe. At the Getty, she is co-lead of the Latin American and Latinx Art History Initiative (LALAI) and several research projects. She is co-curator of the exhibition Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s (California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTS, 2025–26), as well as How to Be a Guerrilla Girl (Getty Research Institute, 2025–26). She is co-editor of the publication Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City (2025) and is currently working on an exhibition and publication titled Pioneers of a New Image: Women Artists and Xerography, forthcoming in 2027–28.
