Biography
Sofia Ortega-Guerrero is a PhD student studying the Indigenous arts of Latin America. Her research interests center on faith aesthetics as the material and formal schema for representing divinity. She is especially interested in the unique role of corporeal ornamentation in embodying and appareling sacredness. Sofia received her BA in Art History and Economics from Yale University. She was awarded the A. Conger Goodyear Fine Arts Award and the Diane Kaplan Memorial Senior Essay Prize for her undergraduate thesis, “Between Specificity and Myth: An Analysis of Carlos Mérida's 'Mexican Costume,’” published in Yale University Library’s EliScholar. Sofia has held internships at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She is a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow.