Nuria teaches on the MA Contemporary Arts China and the BA Art and Design.
Areas of expertise:
- Globalization and Contemporary Art
- Curatorial Studies and Practices
- Contemporary Art in Asia and the Global South
- Transculturalism, Cosmopolitanism and Postcoloniality
- Aural and Visual Cultures and Archives
Nuria has won continuous awards and research grants since 2003, securing the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry Research Grant (c. £30,000) in two different grant cycles, the Fundacion Botin Research Grant in Museums and Curatorial Studies (£25,000), and the OSIC Grant - Department of Culture, Government of Catalonia (£3,000) for the research project ‘Notes towards an unfinished history of sound art in China’ (PI).
More recently, she has secured a research grant from the Department of Culture, Government of Catalonia (£5,000, 2018-2019) for her monograph Transcultural Curating (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press, 2020).
Nuria welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any area of her research interests.
Nuria has published her research in academic peer-review journals and in specialised publications such as Dialogues on Curating (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, 2011) and the UNESCO's World Report on Cultural Diversity (2008). She has contributed to numerous art journals and periodicals, including ExitBook, ExitExpress, El País, and Contrastes Journal.
Invested in research dissemination and networking, Nuria has presented her research in museums and galleries including Tate Modern (London), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), and in academic conferences in France, Spain, China, India, UK and Denmark.
Drawing on her academic research, Nuria curated the exhibition The presence of sound at Fundacion Botin in Santander, Spain (2013). Taking as starting point the arrival of sound reproduction technologies in India, this exhibition explored the implications of these technologies, alongside certain colonial legacies, through works of contemporary art.
Her curatorial projects include collaborations with Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Chester Beatty Museum in Dublin, Cervantes Institute and Courtyard Gallery in Beijing and Abadi Art in New Delhi/Yangon.
