Natalia Aguilar Vásquez

Natalia Aguilar Vásquez is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University (NYU) and a NYU Urban Doctoral Fellow (2020-2021). She obtained her Research Masters in Contemporary Art and World Art Studies from Leiden University, The Netherlands, in 2015 and completed studies in Literature at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia in 2013. Her masters’ thesis on the relationship between violence and embodiment in the artworks of Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz has been reedited as a chapter of the critical anthology “Cuerpos ilegales. Sujeto, poder y escritura en América Latina” Nanne Timmer (ed.) Almenara Press, 2018 and in “Latin American Culture and The Limits of the Human” Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant (eds.) University of Florida Press, 2020.