Nuria is Course Director of the MA Contemporary Arts China and teaches across MA Art Based Masters Programmes and on the BA Art and Design.
Areas of expertise:
- Contemporary Art in a Global Context
- Curatorial Studies and Practices
- Contemporary Art in Asia and the Global South
- Transculturalism, Cosmopolitanism and Decoloniality
- 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).
Current research degree students
Wen Sun (FT PhD), Experimental Bodies as Metaphors: Performance Art and Contemporary Art in Transition in China
Completed research degree students
Lily Mitchell, The Other Stage: Curating Chinese Contemporary Art in the UK, 2020 (AHRC CDA scholarship)
Nuria welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any area of their research interests.
Books
Transcultural Curating. Contemporary Indian Art in a Global Context, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming monograph 2022.
The presence of sound. Santander: Fundacion Botin, 2013. Editor and lead contributor [ISBN 978-84-15469-33-9]
Edited Journals
Transcultural Curation and the Post-Covid World, Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, 9:2&3, forthcoming issue Autumn 2022, co-editor with Joshua Jiang.
Selected Journal Articles
“India at the Venice Biennale: Collateral Events from and beyond the Nation”, Journal of Curatorial Studies, special issue: The Politics of the Venice Biennale, 9:1, 2020, pp. 70-89.
“The art of walking. Fostering experiential learning through observation and creative practice”, Creative Pedagogies Journal, 1/2, 2019, pp. 21-26.
“Debates on contemporary art in China, 1989-2005. Curatorial Practices and Globalisation”, Ibero-American Journal of East Asian Studies, October 2012/4, pp. 137-176.
“Art in China now. New media, last tendencies”, Contrast Journal. Special issue: China. February 2009, pp. 71-75.
Chapters in Edited Collections
“Mapping the field of curatorial practices in India”, in Natasha Ginwala (ed.), Dialogues on Curating II - The Reader, New Delhi: Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, 2011, pp. 98-107.
Reports
“Curating contemporary art in China: from global to local reception, appropriation and (mis)understanding” in Okwui Enwezor and Jean Fisher, (eds.), Artists in Contemporary Societies - National or Global Citizenships?, 2008 UNESCO's World Report on Cultural Diversity, pp. 461-463.
Drawing on their 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.
More recently Nuria co-curated the project Three Day Work-Out (2019) at Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool. Their curatorial projects also 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.
