Kency Cornejo

Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art. Her teaching, research, and publications focus on contemporary art of Central America and its US-based diaspora, art and activism in Latin America, and decolonizing methodologies in art. Some of her publications on US/Central American art can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; and Art and Documentation, among others. She is author of the book Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, published by Duke University Press (Oct. 2024), which analyses thirty years of art and decoloniality in the isthmus. Her second book project focuses on Black-Indigenous and Afro-Central American Art, and she is also working on a co-edited anthology on Compton Arts. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright and Ford Foundations, an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award Grant. She holds a PhD from Duke University, an MA from UT Austin, and BA from UCLA. Kency was born to Salvadoran immigrant parents and raised in Compton, California.