Marisa Lerer - March 2024

Marisa Lerer at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Marisa Lerer, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art history and chair of the Art History & Digital Media Art Department at Manhattan College. She specializes in Latin American and Latinx art, public art, and memorials. Her interests in art in the public sphere are reflected in both the content of her courses and in publications, which have focused on art under dictatorship in Latin America, memorials dedicated to victims of state-sponsored terrorism in Argentina and Chile, Contested Monuments to Christopher Columbus and the 19th-century independence leader Juana Azurduy de Padilla in Buenos Aires, and public sculptures in the US southwest by Luis Jiménez. In 2023, she was the George Gurney Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant for her current book project on Latinx public memorials. She has also been honored with fellowships from Fulbright, New York University/Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and CUNY’s Center for Place Culture and Politics, among others. She has previously held positions as Assistant Professor of contemporary art at the University of Denver and as a part-time faculty member at Parsons, The New School for Design. She serves on the editorial board of Public Art Dialogue, which functions as a forum for critical discourse and commentary about the practice of public art.

Read more about Marisa Lerer here.