PhD in Art History (Universitat de València, 2005). He has taught at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Since 2010 he teaches Art History and Film History at the Universitat de València.

As curator he is responsible for several international exhibitions dedicated to HR Giger (València 2007; Sant Sebastià 2009; Gruyerés 2017; Nantes 2017, Ciutat de Mèxic 2019; Barcelona 2021; Tabasco 2022), José Hernández (València, Madrid 2016; Denia 2022, Alcoi, Villena 2023), Joan Castejón (València 2017; Denia 2022), Film Design (València 2009) and Fantastic Art (València i Alacant 2013; Sant Sebastià 2014; Tabasco 2023).

In addition to conferences and lectures on art, film and avant-garde art, he has published numerous articles in specialized magazines and exhibition catalogs related to art and fantastic cinema.

As a screenwriter he has worked in television (Culto Cinemascope, Rolling Stone Colombia 2021) and film (Bayne Studios, New York, 2023).

Torrent (Valencia), 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and PhD in Art History (2010) from the University of Valencia. He has developed his professional activity as director of the Museu Comarcal de l'Horta Sud Josep Ferrís March, from its creation in 1996 until 2013, which he has combined during this period with teaching as an associate teacher in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia, as an assistant professor since 2013 and since 2018 as a senior lecturer. He has been an elected member of the faculty since 2014, where as such he has formed part of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Commission and the Faculty Board. Since September 2018, he has been responsible for the cultural heritage conservation area at the University of Valencia.

His lines of research focus on the study of certain manifestations of cultural heritage related to the landscapes where they are integrated, such as popular architecture, industrial architecture and the heritage of public works, on which he has published various contributions in specialized journals and collective works.

He has worked on drawing up inventories of immovable ethnological heritage (1994) and industrial heritage in the Valencian Community (1997-2005) and has been a member of the drafting teams of various territorial planning instruments, special plans, master plans for monuments and municipal catalogues of protected buildings and spaces, and has authored a good number of reports on the protection and management of immovable cultural monuments. He has participated in more than ten research contracts and in several R&D projects financed in public calls.

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Sergi Doménech García (Carlet, 1982) es doctor en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (cum laude) con mención internacional. Obtuvo una beca predoctoral en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UVEG. Ha sido investigador en la Cátedra Demetrio Ribes e investigador de plantilla en el Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Ha realizado diversas estancias de investigación en diversos centros internacionales –entre ellos en el Warburg Institute, Londres– y ha sido profesor invitado en varias universidades de Iberoamérica. Es miembro de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática y secretario de la revista Imago que esta sociedad edita. En la actualidad es Secretario Académico del Departament d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de València y coordinador de las prácticas externas del Máster en Historia del Arte y Cultural Visual de la misma universidad.

Ha dedicado parte de su investigación al estudio del arte iberoamericano, aunque no de manera excluyente. Sus investigaciones se centran en el análisis e interpretación de la imagen. Su principal línea de investigación es el estudio de las “prácticas, ingenios persuasivos y retórica visual de la imagen religiosa en el periodo barroco”, así como la continuidad de prácticas y expectativas de la imagen sagrada en la modernidad. Reflejo de esto último es su línea de investigación sobre “Imagen, religión y poder en la España contemporánea”.

Albert Ferrer Orts (Meliana, 1965) graduated in Geography and History -specialization in Art History- (1989) at the Universitat de València-Estudi General, institution in which he received his doctorate in 2004 thanks to a thesis that won the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in 2005.

He has been a Secondary Teacher (2000-2013) and associated PDI in the Department of Art History of the Valencian Estudi General (2006-2013), professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile in Talca, Chile (2013-2014) and full professor of the Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación (Facultad de Arte) in Valparaíso, Chile (2014-2015). Accredited by the ANECA to university professor in 2014, since 2015 he works as a PDI assistant doctor in the Department of Art History of the Universitat de València. Since September 1, 2018, he is the initiative leader of the Unisocietat program (vice-rector for Territorial Projection and Society, of the same academic institution).

His lines of research have focused on the art and architecture of l'Horta Nord, the architecture and the sgraffito decoration of the 17th century in the Kingdom of Valencia, the Carthusian history and art of the former Province of Catalonia, particularly in the Valencian area, and Valencian painting of the sixteenth century. Lately, he has also dealt with the origins of art history in Chile and some of its museums and collections.

Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano studied at the University of Valencia and got her PH D in Art History in 1995 under the direction of prof. Joaquin Berchez. She has also a degree on English Studies. She got a Master's Degree in Architectural Sciences in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings in the Centre d’Études de la Conservation du Patrimoine Architectural et Urbain de la Universidad of Leuven, Bélgium (1995), under the supervision of prof. Raymond Lemaire and Krista de Jonge. Professor of History of Art, she has been the coordinator of the Degree since march 2010 and is now coordinator of the Doctoraal Programme in History of Art. She has directed many PH d thesis as well as Master theses. She has participated in over 8 research projects, including the National Program I+D, with an actual project of Geographies of the artistic mobility. Valencia at Modern Times, as well as in international projects as the Mencia Research Project linked to the Getty Research Institute.  Her main field of studies is linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in medieval and modern times, in several aspects as construction techniques, works of art and architecture, artists culture, travelsetc. She has taught in several universities and participated in international congresses. She got a Senior Research grant from the Fulbright Comission for a stay at Harvard University. 

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Graduate and doctor in Art History from the Universitat de València, in whose Art History Department he has been a full professor since 1997. Research stays at the Università di Bologna, University of Virginia and Université de Montréal

He has studied twentieth century Spanish Art; his first research dealt with industrial architecture and urbanism. Later he has researched visual arts, doing his doctoral thesis about Andreu Alfaro's (1929-2012) esculpture, and he has writen several monographs about him. Nowadays he is interested in Spanish Art after 1939 and, especially, its relations with ideology and politics; he also studies the academic institutionalization of Art History and the different fields of historical-artistic erudition before the incorporation of the discipline to university studies.

He has exerted as exhibitions curator and was Director of Universitat de València's Gallery and Curator of the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection, belonging to the same institution. He is a member of the Valencian, National and International Associations of Art Critics (AVCA, AECA and AICA).

María Elvira Mocholí Martínez earned her Ph.D. from Universitat de València in Art History. She received a fellowship at the Department of Art History of this university and conducted research stays at the Warburg Institute in London. After more than a decade of professional activity in the field of cultural tourism, in 2016 he resumed his teaching and research function in the Department of Art History of the University of València, where she currently is as an assistant professor. She is secretary of the Imago journal, edited by the Sociedad Española de Emblemática.

Her research concentrates on the study of the medieval image in all its aspects (relics and reliquaries, miniatures, etc.) to carry out an analysis and interpretation of it in its cultural context, with special attention to the sculptural imagery of Mary in the ancient kingdom of Valencia. Currently, he participates in the project "The iconographic subjects: Old Testament I".

Pascual Patuel is Professor of Art History at the University of Valencia. Degree in Geography and History (University of Valencia) and History of Art (University of Barcelona), Doctor of Art History (University of Barcelona). He is the author of books, reviews, articles, communications to congresses, curators of exhibitions and technical reports. He has dedicated most of his research activity to the artistic period commonly known as Last Tendencies, which covers the period from the Second World War to the present. The basic objective has been to focus the attention on the most innovative movements that have occurred within the Valencian Art, paying special attention to those artists or institutions that have had the best national and international projection.

This research line is divided into six basic blocks, which have been structured and concretized the dedication to this period that covers the last 60 years of Contemporary Art, in the field of plastic arts, architecture and urban planning. These blocks are the following.

A) Current artistic trends.

Basically it is destined to the study of the vanguards developed in the Valencian and Spanish period under study. Among the various publications we can mention:

– Pintura espacialista valenciana (Revista Goya, 1991).

– Pintura sígnico-gestual valenciana (Revista Goya, 1993).

– El informalismo matérico en la pintura valenciana (Diputación Provincial de Castellón, 1997).

– Geométrica valenciana (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 1999).

– Realisme Social Valencià en la Col·lecció Martínez Guerricabeitia (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, 2018).

B) Studies on artists with extensive trajectory

This area is dedicated to study the monographic analysis of some authors with wide resonance and significance in the current Valencian and Spanish context. Some of them have already deceased and others have an advanced career, born from the late nineteenth century until the forties of the twentieth century. They have militated in groups such as Grupo Z, Grupo Los Siete, Parpalló, Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo, Arte Actual, etc. We can mention:

– Vicente Pastor Pla (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 1997).

– Joaquín Michavila (Diputación Provincial de Castellón, 1999).

– Javier Calvo (Generalitat Valenciana, 1999).

– Nassio Bayarri (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2000).

– Salvador Victoria (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2000).

– Eduardo Sales (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2002).

– Alfonso Pérez Plaza (Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Museo del Puerto de Veracruz, México, 2002).

– Agustín Albalat (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 2002).

– Antonia Mir (Generalitat Valenciana, 2003).

– José Manaut (Generalitat Valenciana, 2004).

– José Vento González (Generalitat Valenciana, 2005).

– Fernando Peiró Coronado (Grafisa, 2006).

– Salvador Soria (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, 2006).

– Wenceslao Rambla (Generalitat Valenciana, 2007).

– Monjalés (Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana, 2014).

– Salvador Montesa (Generalitat Valenciana-Fundación Chirivella Soriano, 2016).

– Isabel Oliver. 40 años de arte comprometido, 1970-2009 (Universidad de Valencia, 2019).

C) Valencian artistic groups and movements

It allows to study a whole series of groups and artistic movements of the 40s, 50s and 60s, where the development of the avant-garde in the Valencian world had been gestated. A special effort was made to locate the extensive documentation that his work had been generated among catalogs of exhibitions, monographs, diverse publications, statutes, letters, magazines, references in the press, etc.

– Grupo Z y Grupo Los Siete (Revista L'Espill, 1991).

– Grupo Parpalló (Revista Archivo de Arte Valenciano, 1990).

– Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo (Consell Valencià de Cultura, 1998).

– Los grupos Neos, Art Nou y Rotgle Obert en la Valencia de los años 50 (Revista Saitabi, 1995).

– Asociación Arte Actual (Revista Archivo de Arte Valenciano, 1993).

– 25 años del premio de pintura y escultura Bancaja (Bancaja, 1998).

– Salones Valencianos de Arte (Diputación de Valencia, 1999).

D) Thematic projects

These are publications that analyze a monographic and specific theme:

– Diccionario de Artistas Valencianos del Siglo XX (Albatros, 1999).

– Paisaje Valenciano en el siglo XX (Generalitat Valenciana, 2002).

– Música y Arte (Ayuntamiento de Valencia, 2004).

– Arte actual a la comarca de l'Horta Sud de Valencia (CAM-Mancomunidad e Instituto de Estudios de l'Horta Sud de Valencia, 2003).

– Repertorio Bibliográfico de Artistas Valencianos Contemporáneos Seleccionado y Comentado (Diputación de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia, 2005 y ss.).

– La luz de las imágenes. Lux mundi Xàtiva 2007 (Generalitat Valenciana, 2007).

– Pabellón de la Santa Sede (Nunciatura Apostólica en España. Expo Zaragoza, 2008).

– Diccionario Biográfico Español (Real Academia de la Historia, 2009).

E) Modern Art Studies

It corresponds to studies related to international art of the period between the sixties of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century that have already taken place. They are the result of stays at the University of Toulouse and at the University of the Colorado State (USA). They allowed to access a significant volume of documentation and documentary sources that have allowed to analyze in depth this period. The intention is to offer, to the art students and people interested in these stages of art history, diachronic studies with historiographical criteria:

– Arquitectura Actual (Tirant Humanidades, 2016).

– Arte Actual (Universidad de Valencia, 2016).

F) Global visions about Contemporary Valencian Art

– Architecture and urban development of the University of Valencia Blasco Ibáñez Campus (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2014).

– Arte Valenciano en el Franquismo, 1939-1975 (Universidad de Valencia-Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2019).

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Profesor Titular de Universidad. Premio extraordinario de Licenciatura y de Doctorado. Investigación centrada preferentemente en el Arte Valenciano de los siglos XVII a XIX. 

Jorge Sebastian Lozano is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art of the University of Valencia since 2014, in whose Master of Cultural Heritage he had been a visiting professor since 2006. He has received research grants from the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University, in 2017 and 2018.

His research as a historian spans a variety of fields. He devoted his dissertation to the visual representation of gender in the Spanish monarchy of the Early Modern Age, publishing several articles and essays on the topic. More recently, he has dedicated special attention to the painter Sofonisba Anguissola, through various publications and collaborations.

Additionally, he has taught multiple courses on the application of ICT to the study and dissemination of historical heritage. Since 2018 he is Technical Manager SILKNOW, a research project funded by the European Commission (programme Horizon2020).

He has also organized many exhibitions and conferences about contemporary art, mainly in Fundación Mainel.

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual has a Degree in Art History and Journalism. Phd in Geography and History from the Universitat de València and PHD in Art History from the Universitat Politècnica de València.  Master in Development Cooperation with the speciality of International Humanitarian Aid by the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. He is Currently Professor of the Department of Art History at the Universitat de València. Dean of International Relations, Quality and Educational Innovation at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València. His line of research for almost two decades has been the material, cultural and symbolic study of color in Ancient Mesoamerica, with special emphasis on Mayan culture. His most recent research focuses on the binomial "Materiality and Meaning", applied to the colors, fragrances and textures of different cultures of the ancient world, with the aim of investigating the issue of sensory perception through art and the ritual (public and private). In parallel, his training and experience in International Cooperation has allowed him in his projects and research, mostly focused on the Mayan area (Central America), combining the binomial Cultural Heritage and Local Development. Between 2009 and 2014 he was an autonomic Vice-President of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Diplomacy in the Spanish Red Cross – Comunidad Valenciana. He Has experience in Central America (Mexico and Guatemala), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger) and Asia (Sub-Continent India), especially linked to groups of children and women.

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