Gabriela Rodriguez – Gomez

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Gabriela Rodriguez – Gomez

Graduate Student

Cohort 2016-17

Email: grgomez@ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Chicana/o Studies & Central American Studies at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with a specialization in the history of murals created during the Chicana/o art movement and the Mexican mural movement. She holds a B.A. in Art and History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California Santa Cruz, an M.A. in Art History from the University of California Riverside, and an M.A. in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA. She received the Edward A. Dickson Fellowship in the History of Art at UCLA in 2021-2022 and is currently the UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellow for 2023-2024. The dissertation “Murals Without Walls, Muralism Without Borders: Womxn Artists and Their Portable Murals of the Chicano Art Movement in Colorado and California” examines the history of Chicana/o and Mexican muralism and identifies womxn artists and their portable murals.

Education

  • CPhil, Chicana/o Studies, 2019, UCLA
  • MA, Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2019, UCLA
  • MA, Art History, 2012, UC Riverside
  • BA, History of Art, Visual Culture & Art, 2008, University of California Santa Cruz

Research

Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Murals, Mexican Muralists, Chicana/o/x Art, Latina/o/x Art, Mexican Modern Art, Public Art, Chicana/x Feminism, Critical Indigenous Theory

Selected Publications

  • Review of Diego Rivera’s America, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 5, no. 4 (October 2023): 118-119. https://online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/article/5/4/118/197429/Review-Diego-Rivera-s-America-edited-by-James-Oles
  • “History sin Fronteras: Antonio Bernal’s Chicano Murals in Del Rey and East Los Angeles” in The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers 1884 to 2019, edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, Winter 2022. 21-28.
  • “Introduction.” Califas: The Ancestral Journey / El Viaje Ancestral, with art contributions from Guillermo Aranda, Ralph D’Oliveira, Eduardo Carrillo, Carmen Leon, and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Edited by Felicia Rice. Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 2020. 1-2.
  • “Diego Rivera. La historia de la medicina en México: People’s Demand for Better Health, mural in 1953 aún vigente.” “Diego Rivera, The History of Medicine in Mexico: People’s Demand for Better Health, mural 1953 still current” Co-written article with Dr. Felipe C. Cabello (New York Medical College). Revista Chilena de Pediatría vol 90, no. 3 (June 2019): 351 – 355. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0370-41062019000300351&script=sci_arttext
  • Review of Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals by Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher, Aztlán Journal of Chicano Studies vol. 43, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 267-271.
  • Rodriguez-Gomez LALVC 2023 5 4 – GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 – 2024     UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF), part of the UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI)
  • 2023 – 2024     Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) — declined.
  • Summer 2023   Smithsonian Archives of American Art and American Art Museum Fellow in Latinx Art, with support from the National Museum of the American Latino’s Latinx Pool Initiative
  • 2022 – 2023    Institute of American Cultures Fellowship, Research Travel Grant
  • Summer 2022  UCLA Keck Humanistic Inquiry Graduate Research Award. Keck Graduate Fellow.
  • 2021 – 2022     Employing and Amplifying Rhizomes (EAR) Fellowship, Rhizomes of Mexican American Art Since 1848, Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • 2021 – 2022   Edward A. Dickson Fellowship in the History of Art, UCLA Department of Art History
  • 2018 – 2019  Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division Mentor: Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • 2018 – 2019  Institute of American Cultures Fellowship, research conducted at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC)
  • Summer 2018  Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division. Mentor: Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • Summer 2017  Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division. Mentor: Professor Judith F. Baca at Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Courses

Teaching Fellow

  • CCAS 188: Xicanx Mural History of California
  • CCAS 149: Gendered Politics and Chicana/Latina Political Participation
  • CCAS20:Central American Studies: Histories and Cultures

Teaching Associate

  • Chicano Studies 113: Day of the Dead
  • Chicano Studies 10A: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies

Teaching Assistant

  • Chicano Studies 10A: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies
  • Chicano Studies 10B: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies
  • Chicano Studies 101: Theory in Chicana/o Studies
  • Art History 22: Renaissance and Baroque Art
  • Art History 25: Museum Studies
  • Art History 31: Art of India and Southeast Asia