Graduate Student Profile

Diana is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University. She specializes in modern and contemporary art of Latin America with a focus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her dissertation work examines visual representations of cultural and environmental transformations in the Andean-Amazon region from the early twentieth century to the present.
As the 2024-2026 Cisneros Institute Research Fellow at MoMA, she was involved in the organization of a public academic conference and editing process of a forthcoming publication about modern art and spirituality in Latin America and the Caribbean, among other responsibilities. She collaborated as a member of the curatorial committee for the exhibition Amazonia Açu, hosted by the Americas Society from September 2025 to April 2026. At Rutgers, Diana is affiliated to the Andean-Amazonian Studies and Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice Working Groups.
Diana participated in Laboratorio Ecua II, in Puyo-Ecuador in 2026, the Getty Foundation’s The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland seminar, 2023-2025, and the Center for Curatorial Leadership seminar in 2023. Prior to starting her doctorate, Diana worked at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). She has a BA in higher education from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and an MA in art history from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.