Abigail McEwen

Abigail McEwen, associate professor of Latin American art history, leads the Art and Activism community.  Professor McEwen has taught at College Park since 2010 and is a faculty affiliate of the Latin American Studies Center.

Professor McEwen studies the history of modern and contemporary Latin American art, specifically the arts of Cuba and Puerto Rico.  Her first book, Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba (Yale University Press, 2016), examines the politicization of abstract art by Havana’s avant-garde.  Past and ongoing projects consider the work of Afro-Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas and Puerto Rican painters Olga Albizu and Myrna Báez.  She has collaborated on numerous exhibitions, including Streams of Being (Art Gallery and Art Museum of the Americas) and Concrete Cuba (David Zwirner).