Graduate Students

Izabel Anca Galliera

Modern / Contemporary

Izabel Galliera is a 2005 MA graduate in Art History from the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her MA paper, “Negotiating Artistic Identity through Satire: subREAL, 1989 – 1999,” closely analyzed two major art exhibitions Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe (Chicago, 1995) and After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe (Stockholm, 1999) and how they have shaped homogenizing perspectives on Post-Cold War Eastern European art and artists, like the Romanian artist collective subREAL. Following her graduation from USF, Galliera has worked as Collection Curator at the Drapkin Collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs, where she edited and oversaw the design of a monograph (2007) on its extensive photography collection. She was also Assistant Curator at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, where her latest curatorial initiative included a museum exhibition, Torolab: One Degree Celsius (2008), with Tijuana-based artist collective Torolab; a series of three films, Film Screenings: Socially-Engaged Artistic Practices, featuring various collaborative, community-based art projects; and a one-day colloquium, Art as a Catalyst for Social Transformation, structured to provoke discourse on the cross-disciplinary collaborations of socially-engaged art practice, as it takes form within the larger socio-political and economic contexts. Galliera will begin the HAA doctoral program fall 2008 and will continue her study of Post-Cold War Eastern and Central European contemporary art, specifically, socially-engaged art practice, and its curatorial and institutional representations within the broader context of globalization.