Exhibitions:
Beatriz Yanes Martinez
Beatriz Yanes Martinez is a PhD student in American Studies at NY. They received their BA in Latin American Studies from Carleton College, where their research was supported by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. A queer poet and curator, their research explores 19th- and 20th-century visual archives that reproduce extractive narratives of Central America, placing these materials in critical dialogue with contemporary Central American art and performance. Drawing on methodologies from literary studies, visual culture, performance studies, Black Studies, and environmental humanities, their work traces the cultural afterlives of extraction across temporal and aesthetic registers. Prior to starting their PhD, Beatriz was Curatorial Mutual Learning Fellow at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College where they curated [Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place and co-curated From the Field: Tracing Foodways Through Art. Beatriz has received fellowships from Undocupoets, Community of Writers, BreadLoaf Environmental Writers Conference at Middlebury College, and Colby College Environmental Humanities. Their poetry and art writing can be found in the Brooklyn Rail, the Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, and others.