Marco Antonio Flores

Ph.D. Student in Art History, admitted Autumn 2019, Research Project Aid, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Office Assistant, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Marco Antonio Flores is a PhD student in the Department Art History where he specializes in modern and contemporary across the Americas. His dissertation focuses on the photography and film of Laura Aguilar. Flores is also interested art’s presence in everyday life. 

In 2019, he curated staring at the sun, a solo exhibition featuring rafa esparza at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He is currently preparing an exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries on the work of Bay Area muralist Juana Alicia.

Flores received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a second M.A. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a fellow in the Director's Office of the Clark Art Institute.