Mariola V. Alvarez is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and director of Graduate Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is the author of The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954-1964, published by the University of California Press in 2023. She co-edited with Ana Franco, New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America with Routledge, which expands the current research by leading scholars in the field. In 2024 Alvarez was appointed co-editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. She is currently working on her second book, for which she was the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award, on the art of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil. She received her PhD from the University of California San Diego.