Graduate Student Affiliate
Elvis Fuentes
- Campus: NB
- Email: ef202@newark.rutgers.edu
- PhD or MA: PhD
- School : SAS
- Department: Art History
- Research Areas (themes, countries): Cuba, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Latinx, Cold War in Latin American & Caribbean Art
- Dissertation Title: Bowling for Moscow: Afterlife of Soviet Visual Culture in Cuban Art
- Bio: Elvis Fuentes is PhD Candidate in Art History at Rutgers University. He served as curator at El Museo del Barrio New York (2006-2013), where he directed and co-curated, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, 2012. In 2005, he won the Grand Prix at the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Eslovenia, with the curatorial project, Print As Metaphor. Fuentes is Adjunct Lecturer at City College of New York, Lehman College, and the University of Hartford, where he teaches courses on Caribbean art, Latin American art, and Postwar Art. He is currently a Dodge Lawrence Curatorial Fellow at the Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Fuentes writes regularly for ArtNexus magazine, and is an nominating advisor at CIFO and Prix Pictect.
