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, 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.

Iñigo Clavo, María; Fernández López, Olga, “Transhistoric Display and Colonial (Dis)Encounters”, en Wittocx, Eva, Demeester, Ann, Carpreau, Peter, Bühler, Melanie and Karskens, Xander (eds), The Transhistorical Museum, Amsterdam, Valiz, 2018, pp. 66-78.

Fernández López, Olga, “El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering”, en Sophie Halart, y Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (eds.), Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America, London, I.B. Tauris, 2016, pp. 151-167.