Pilar Gonzalo

Pilar Gonzalo (born 1971) is Arts administrator and author of the book Zombies, castrados, mantis y deformes. Notas para una exploración de la postfotografía, an essay about digital photography in contemporary art that was honored with the National Award of Critic and Theory of Art of the AMUCA, Spain, an award for winning the contest for unpublished work in Spanish.
Gonzalo graduated from the University of Salamanca and worked on her Ph.D. at the Complutense University in (Madrid, Spain) Her dissertation was on Photography, Art, and Electronic Procedures at the Turn of Millennium: Definition, Critic Analysis, and Cataloguing Proposal of Ten Years of Post-Photography in Art (1997-2004).
Pilar Gonzalo worked three years as art critic for the Spanish art magazine Arte y Parte and she has also collaborated in numerous art magazines and publications. Gonzalo has written for International Photo Magazine (London), and is the Executive Director of lamusediffuse, a collaborative team exploring the forms, impact, and possibilities of electronic technologies in contemporary culture which started as a group of Fulbright Scholars from different parts of the World sharing a common interest in improving lives for individuals by improving access to culture through digital technologies and their creations.
After being professor of Aesthetics of Modernity and Theory of Contemporary Art at Miguel Hernández University (Alicante, Spain), she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship of the Development of Arts and Cultural Management Program and Ministry of Culture. Pilar Gonzalo obtained a M.A. in the Museum Professions Program (Management track) at the Arts and Sciences School of Seton Hall University. She also studied at the Columbia University Teachers College from which she received an M.A. and at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works at the Web Programs Department of Museo Reina Sofía (Museum of Queen Sofia) and teaches in Graduate Programs at Universidad Europea de Madrid (European University of Madrid).

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