Vanessa Badagliacca is an art historian and educator. She earned her PhD in Art History in 2016 from FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa with the thesis “Organic Materiality in 20th Century Art. Plants and (Human and Non-Human) Animals from Representation to Materialization.” Her academic research, intertwined with her curatorial practice, explores the relationships between plant life, environmental issues, and artistic practices, with an approach informed by the sciences, ecocriticism, and new materialisms, focusing primarily on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from a transnational perspective.
She has published her work in international academic journals and is also involved in editing and writing for exhibitions and magazines. In 2020, she received a research fellowship in the United States from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
