Fabiola Received her PhD from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in 2005. Her current research centres on the study of Inter-American and Pan-American cultural diplomacy, artistic networks, international solidarity, and the role that Mexico and Mexican art played in the Cultural Cold War. These lines of enquiry have centred on the two Inter-American Biennials organized by the Mexican government in 1958 and 1960, the Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP), the Frente Nacional de Artes Plasticas (FNAP), as well as on the work of Rufino Tamayo in the 1950s. She has been awarded academic grants by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and has been a fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Fabiola is the director of the Art History program at SLU Madrid since 2007.
Publications
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “The Black Legend of Mexican Painting”, in Irina Costache; Clare Kunny (eds.), Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art, New York, Routledge, 2024, pp. 130-140.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Pan-American Modernism and Cosmopolitan Primitivism: Covarrubias, De Zayas, and Tamayo in New York 1920 – 1945, in Anne Dewey, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Herrera (eds.), Exploring the Hispanic Legacy in U.S. Poetry and Art, Ed: Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 139-157
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Descolonizar el Atlántico: las lecciones del indigenismo y la negritud”, in Paula Barreriro; María Ruido (eds.), Revolver el tiempo. Conceptos críticos, mutaciones históricas y estéticas entre la Guerra fría y la contrarrevolución neoliberal, Barcelona, Bellaterra, 2023, pp. 161-188.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Exposición Mexicana de Pintura y Estampa Contemporáneas. Mexican Art in the Eastern Front 1955: Poland and Bulgaria”, Artl@s Bulletin 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 49-62.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Mexico’s Interamerican Biennials and the Hemispheric Cold War.” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, vol. 43, no. 119, September, 2021, pp. 249-285.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “The Art of Botero and Latin America’s Cultural Cold War”, in Cecilia Braschi (ed.), Fernando Botero, Beyond Forms, cat. exp. (Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 8 octobre 2021-31 janvier 2022), Heule, Snoeck, 2021, pp 34-43.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind: Rufino Tamayo”, in UNESCO Art Collection. Selected Works, Paris: UNESCO, 2021, pp. 101-103.
Martínez Rodríguez, Fabiola, “Haciendo frente a la abstracción: las políticas transnacionales de la escuela mexicana en los cincuenta”, in Paula Barreiro (ed.), Atlántico Frío. Historias transnacionales del arte y la política en los tiempos del telón de acero, Madrid: Brumaria, 2019, pp. 380-408.
