Claudia CalirmanClaudia Calirman is associate professor in the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. Her areas of study are Latin American, modern, and contemporary art. She is the author of Brazilian Art under Dicttorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles (2012), which analyzes the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime from 1968 to 1975. The book received the 2013 Arvey Award by the Association for Latin American Art. Calirman is a recipient of the Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation and was a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Calirman has curated several exhibitions in New York, including Berna Reale: While You Laugh (2019); Basta! Art and Violence in Latin America (2016); and Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, not Represent! (2011). Read More Read Less