Rocio de la Villa
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Rocio Villa-Ardura.
Rocio De La villa | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Other names | Rocio de la Villa Ardura Rocio Villa-Ardura. |
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| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Rocio de la Villa (Madrid, 1959) is a Spanish university professor, art historian, curator, researcher and art critic. She has edited and collaborated in the edition of distinct catalogues and publications related with the art and the position of the woman in the artistic world. In 2014 she was rewarded with the Prize MAV in the modality of Criticism of art.[1] She also goes by the names Rocio de la Villa Ardura and Rocio Villa-Ardura.
De la Villa is Professor in the Autonomous University of Madrid of Aesthetics and Art Theory. She obtains the professorship of Aesthetics and Art Theory.in the same university. Besides she gives class in the Master of History of Contemporary Art and visual Culture that offers the Museo Reina Sofia.[2] Also she gives classes in the Master of Studies Interdisciplinares of Gender at the Woman´s Studies Institute.[3]
President of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts as of 2013[4] and a co-founder of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV), of which has been president between the years 2009 and 2012.[5][6]
She has directed different cycles and conferences such as the first European Congress of Aesthetics celebrated in Madrid (2011), the cycle of conferences Heroines and the symposium Agencia Feminista y empowerment en artes visuales, both celebrated in the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. Also she organised, together with the professor Jesús Carrillo Castillo, the first Congress on Art and Woman (Contraposiciones. Mujeres en el arte actual) in the Autonomous University of Madrid (2001).[7][8][9][10]
