​Claudia Calirman

Claudia Calirman is Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, in the Department of Art and Music. Her areas of study are Latin American, modern, and contemporary art. She is the author of Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles (Duke University Press, 2012), which received the 2013 Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art. She is a 2013 recipient of the Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation. Claudia has curated several exhibitions in New York, including Basta! Art and Violence in Latin America (Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, 2016) and Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! (Americas Society, 2011). She is the Director of the Art and Justice Fellowship Program at John Jay College and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).