Dr Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja

Biography

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja is a postdoctoral researcher who works on digital art history projects examining transnational arts using decolonial and critical digital methods, aimed at challenging and reimagining dominant and biased practices in art history and art institutions. Currently, she is involved in the Mobile Subjects: Contrapuntal Modernisms project at Carleton University in Canada and is a fellow of the Digital Skills in the Arts and Humanities (DISKAH) Network at the Transnational Arts Identity and Nation TrAIN Research Centre at UAL. She has served as postdoctoral research fellow for the Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation project in which she led an international team of researchers collecting data about museums and university courses worldwide for the project database and website. Also, she was involved with the Unlock our Digital Past with Artificial Intelligence LUSTRE project at Loughborough University as a researcher.

She earned a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Glasgow and holds a BA degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, and a MA degree in Publishing, Journalism and Arts Management from the University of Rome La Sapienza. Additionally, Maribel has held positions at The Getty in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. In these institutions her work was focused on developing digital publications and projects.