Marina Tyquiengco

Marina Tyquiengco

Program

CCL Mellon Foundation Seminar 2018

Institution

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Title

Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art

School

University of Pittsburgh

Mentor

Kathleen Ash-Milby, Portland Art Museum

Marina Tyquiengco is PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture  at the University of Pittsburgh, advised by Professor Terry Smith on contemporary Indigenous art. She received her BA from the University of Virginia with a double major in Art History and Foreign Affairs. While at the University of Virginia, she interned at the Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. After graduating, she continued to work in the arts at a for-profit gallery and nonprofit art center. In 2016, she received her MA in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh with a project on reuse of ethnographic photographs by contemporary Aboriginal artists. She has presented her research at the Australian and New Zealand Studies of North America and at the Southeastern College Art Conference. She was the inaugural intern for the 57th Carnegie International where she conducted a digital humanities project based on recent curators’ travel patterns. Her dissertation will focus on Indigenous artists’ use of their bodies in work made from the 1990s to today in Australia, Canada, and the United States. She is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief forContemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture.

Articles Related to Marina Tyquiengco

2018-06-04

CCL Selects PhD Students for Fifth Annual Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership to Convene its 2018 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) will welcome fifteen art history doctoral students to New York City for the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. This fifth iteration of the program will bring ... Read More >

2018 Seminar_Group Photo (JPG)

2018-08-01

Program Highlights | 2018 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar

Highlights from the Fifth Annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice This July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) convened its fifth annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The program assembled 15 art history doctoral students from a dozen universities specializing in areas ranging from Roman glass portraits through to modern ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

2020-01-27

Marina Tyquiengco (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2018) Named Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Marina Tyquiengco (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2018) has been named the new Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tyquiengco participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2018 and is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

2020-02-18

Anni Pullagura (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2018) Named Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Anni Pullagura (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2018) has been named Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Pullagura participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2018 and is a PhD candidate in American Studies and an MA candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown ... Read More >

Seminar Advancement

2021-08-24

Marina Tyquiengco (Seminar 2018) named inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art at MFA Boston

Marina Tyquiengco (Seminar 2018) has been named the inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston! Marina has been the Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at the MFA Boston since 2020. Exhibitions she has been a part of organizing ... Read More >