Gabriella Scott

Born and raised in Italy, after high school I moved with my family to Mexico, where I went to college; I later moved to San Antonio, Texas where, during 15 years, I worked in international marketing, traveling to establish retail operations throughout Mexico, Central and South America. The experience expanded my understanding of the ethnic and socioeconomic factors and uniqueness of each national culture that participates in the great Latin American mosaic. This experience informed my graduate art history studies at UTSA with a concentration in Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art, which included doing research in Mexico for my Master's thesis and working on curatorial projects about Mexican artists such as José Guadalupe Posada and NeoMexican artists. In 2011 I participated in "Tiempos Oscuros" in Bellas Artes (CENIDIAP) Mexico City, a series of lectures addressing Mexican artists' response to violence and historical trauma. In 2016 I curated an exhibition at UTSA of the work of Mexican sculptor Jorge Yázpik. At UIW, I teach, among other art history courses, Modern to Contemporary Mexican Art, a course designed to highlight how, since Mexican independence from the Spanish crown, art has been produced in Mexico as a response to the changing political and social demands of the evolving state as aesthetic and cultural arbiter.