Patricia Mayayo Bost (born 1967) is a Spanish

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

, professor, and researcher. Her areas of research and study include the

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term ":wikt:historiography, historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiog ...

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and

queer art Queer art, also known as LGBT+ art or queer aesthetics, broadly refers to Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary visual art practices that draw on LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and various non-heterosexual, non-cisgend ...

, the

history of women Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of women's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievements over a period o ...

artists, and

contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

istic practices.

Biography

Patricia Mayayo Bost was born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, 1967. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid (; UAM), commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 by royal decree. UAM is widely respected as one of the most prestigious univ ...

(UAM) and an M.A. in Art History from

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

(

Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...

, USA). Between 1998 and 2006, she was a professor of Art History at the

European University of Madrid The European University () is a private university in Spain with campuses in Madrid, Valencia, and the Canary Islands. The university ranked 1,001–1,200th in the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, joint 1,635th in the 202 ...

(UEM) and is currently a full professor at UAM. She was the coordinator of the University master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, which is taught at the

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The ''Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía'' ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. I ...

(MNCARS). She has been part of the research projects , and , financed by the

Ministry of Education An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...

. She has directed courses on gender differences and their representation in art and cinema for different museums and contemporary Spanish art centers. Mayayo collaborated in the realization of the feminism itinerary for the permanent collection at MNCARS, which questions the visibility and role of women in the History of Art. This itinerary was written by Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao and was presented for the first time in 2009 at MNCARS. In 2009, Mayayo was one of the founders of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales along with Rocio de la Villa and was a member of the board of directors. In 2012–2013, with

Juan Vicente Aliaga Juan Vicente Aliaga (born 1959) is a Spanish art critic who has written widely on contemporary conceptual art as well as on gender and queer theory. In his pioneer 1997 book ''Identidad y diferencia: sobre la cultura gay en España'', co-author ...

, Mayayo curated the exhibition " Feminist genealogies in Spanish art 1960-2010", at the

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, better known as the MUSAC, is a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain. Inaugurated in April 2005 by Felipe, Prince of Asturias, this cultural institution aims to be a "Museum ...

León, Spain León (; ) is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 124,303 (2019), ...

, with the participation of, among others,

Eva Lootz Eva Lootz (born 1940, in Vienna) is an Austrian–Spanish artist and sculptor, best known for her sculptures and art work using plastics, and her plastic art public installations across Spain. She won the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1994 ...

, Marisa Gonzalez, Paloma Navares,

Esther Ferrer Esther Ferrer (born 1937 in San Sebastián, Spain) is a Spanish performance artist. Ferrer received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts (1999), the Marie-Claire Prize for Contemporary Art in France, and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize. ...

Carmen Calvo María del Carmen Calvo Poyato (born 9 June 1957) is a Spanish politician and author who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of the Presidency from 2018 to 2021. Born and raised in Cabra, Spain, she attended the University o ...

, , , and Marina Núñez. The exhibition proposed a review of the role of feminist discourses in the Spanish context from the sixties to 2010.

Exhibitions

* "Feminist genealogies in Spanish art 1960-2010", 2012–13, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

Selected works

Books

* ''Louise Bourgeoi'', 1990, * ''André Masson : mitologías'', 2002 * ''Historias de mujeres, historias del arte'', 2003, * ''Frida Kahlo : contra el mito'', 2008, * ''Cuerpos sexuados, cuerpos de (re)producción'', 2011, * ''Genealogías feministas en el arte español'' (with Juan Vicente Aliaga), 2013,

Articles

* "Barcelona en blanco y negro : la politización del debate urbano en el entorno de la 'gauche divine'", ''Arte, Individuo y Sociedad'', 32, 1 July 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayayo Patricia 1967 births Living people People from Madrid Spanish art historians Autonomous University of Madrid alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni