Professor of Contemporary Art History and Curatorial Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Guest professor at the Master of Curatorial Studies at the University of Pamplona and at the MA Curating at the Royal College of Art (London). She is the author of the book Exposiciones y comisariado. Relatos cruzados (Ed. Cátedra, 2020) and several articles on the history of exhibitions. She has curated Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, 2017). Between 2001 and 2006 she was Chief Curator and Head of Research and Education at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and previously she was curator of the documentation and research area of the Contemporary Art Collection (1996-2001).
In addition to participating in Decentralized Modernities and Partisan Resistance(s), she is a member of the research project European Forum for Advanced Practices.

Publications

Fernández  López, Olga, “Partisan dilemmas between activism and socially engaged art: Situations in Loisaida at the end of the seventies”, Artl@s Bulletin 11, no. 1 (2022): Article 5. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol11/iss1/5/

Fernández López, Olga, “Curatorial Displacements in Spain before and after the 2000s: Coloniality Tricks, Exhibition Eclipses and Critical Agencies” en Carlos Garrido Castellano and Bruno Leitão, Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2022, pp. 39-56. ISBN: 978-1-78683-873-5.

Fernández López, Olga, “Deshacerse del público: hostilidad y deseo del espectador en la década de los sesenta”, en Robles Tardío, Rocío (ed.), Exposición, museo y público. Cinco aproximaciones en dos tiempos, Madrid, Ediciones Asimétricas, 2021, pp. 95-105 (notas 147-148). ISBN: 978-84-17905-96-5.

Fernández López, Olga, Exposiciones y comisariado. Relatos cruzados, Madrid, Editorial Cátedra, 2020.

Fernández López, Olga, Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica, Sevilla, Centro Andaluz de arte contemporáneo, 2017.

Fernández López, Olga, “Exposiciones, arte en el espacio público e imaginarios cívicos en la Europa de posguerra: de la nueva monumentalidad al campo de acción”, en Paula Barreiro (ed.), Atlántico Frío. Historias transnacionales del arte y la política en los tiempos del Telón de Acero, Madrid, Brumaria, 2019, pp. 257-291.