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ENRIC OLIVARES TORRES (Algemesí, 1978) is a graduate and PhD in Art History and an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia since 2022. Prior to that year, and since 2016, he was an associate professor in the same department. He also worked as a secondary school teacher at the private school Maria Auxiliadora in Algemesí from 2010 to 2022. He was a research fellow at the Museum of the City of Valencia (2002), the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (2008), and the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia (2003-2007).

His main research interests focus on Valencian art and ritual manifestations in the Valencian festive context, as well as studies of visual culture and Christian iconography, to which he has dedicated several monographs and articles in specialized journals. He has participated in the cataloging, assembly, and curating of exhibitions on the work of various Valencian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Juli Peris Brell, Manuel Benedito, Manuel Sigüenza, Leonardo Borràs, Juan Francés, and more recently, Josep Renau, to whom he dedicated the exhibition Josep Renau and the Time of Images (2022). He also contributed to the development of the guide for the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia in 2008.

He is the author or co-author of the works Ceràmica devocional d’Algemesí (2005); El Bolero d'Algemesí. Cent anys del Ball de les Llauradores (2006); Temps de casinos. El Casino Lliberal d’Algemesí (2007); La colección de arte Adolfo de Azcárraga del Ayuntamiento de Valencia (2009); Iconografia de sant Jaume cavaller. El retaule major d’Algemesí (2011); Un projecte insòlit. Els relleus de Leonardo Borràs (2017); Festes, danses i processons als arxius de la Casa Insa (2018) o Els guerrers de la festa. La dansa dels tornejants en la tradició valenciana (2022), among other publications.

He is part of the research group APES (Visual Culture Studies) and is a member of the Spanish Society of Emblematics. Since 2023, he also directs the Chair of Traditional Music and Dance.