Overview
Juliana is an art historian and curator of Latin American art and material culture. Her research explores artistic exchange between Asia and the Spanish Americas during the colonial period, with particular attention to the visual and material impact of the Manila Galleon trade. She is especially interested in materiality as a driver of cultural connectivity in the early modern trans-pacific milieu, focusing on the physical, affective, and historical aspects of materials—like silk and camelid fibers, lacquer, feathers, mother of pearl and emeralds—and the ways they interact with their makers, consumers, and environments over time.
Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana holds an MA from the Bard Graduate Center in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, and a double major in Art History and Design from the Universidad de los Andes. She has curated exhibitions and installations at the Franz Mayer Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Syracuse University, and has forthcoming publications in exhibition catalogues by the Newberry Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, Juliana collaborated in the exhibition “Colonial Crossings: Art, Belief, and Identity in the Spanish Americas” at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the first exhibition of colonial Latin American art at Cornell University.