Lilia Rocio Taboada
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Mentors: Leslie Jones and Naoko Takahatake (Prints & Drawings); Megan O'Neil (Art of Ancient Americas)
Lilia Taboada has transitioned from MoMA/Studio Museum Curatorial Fellow to a Curatorial Assistant in the department of Media and Performance at MoMA. In her new role, she will assist on the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, working with Thomas Lax and in close collaboration with the artist and original gallery owner Linda Goode Bryant.
In 2019, Lilia Rocio Taboada graduated with an MA from the Department of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) with a focus on African American and Latinx art history after 1945. Her MA thesis incorporated performance studies, critical race theory, and feminist art history to address performance in Los Angeles during the 1980s. While at UT, Taboada curated the exhibition Sutures: Sula Bermudez-Silverman at the Visual Arts Center and was the recipient of a UT Austin Graduate School Mentoring Fellowship. She has held positions in the Education Department at the Hammer Museum and Curatorial Departments at the Blanton Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she was an inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow. Taboada earned her BA in 2016 from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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