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Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University who specializes in the visual culture of pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin America. Her research centers on issues of racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, historicity, and coloniality in the visual and material culture of the Andes. Her research also attends to legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art. She is author of Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Pr
Cohen-Aponte is an award-winning scholar whose essays appear in a range of journals and edited volumes, including Colonial Latin American Review , The Americas , Allpanchis , RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics , and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture , among others. Her article “Forging a Popular Art History: Indigenismo and the Art of Colonial Peru” (2017) is the fourth most read article in the history of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics . She won the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) Art
Her new book project, Insurgent Imaginaries: The Art of Rebellion in the Colonial Andes, considers the role of visual culture in both quotidian and spectacular acts of resistance within the context of anti-colonial uprisings of the late eighteenth century. She introduces new methodological frameworks to investigate occluded art histories of Indigenous and Afrodescendant resistance marked by state-sanctioned erasure. Cohen-Aponte has published several articles and essays based on this new research, includi