Fiamma Montezemolo

Fiamma Montezemolo is both an artist (M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute) and an anthropologist (Ph.D., University Orientale of Naples). She is an established scholar in border studies and Professor in the Department of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. She has exhibited in various institutions among which: Baruchello Art Foundation, Rome, (2024) Museo Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2019), Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2019), Munich Jewish Museum, Germany (2019), La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2023), Headlands Center for the Arts, California (2018), ASU Art Museum, Arizona (2019), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2016), Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (2014). She is represented by Magazzino gallery in Rome. She is widely published and the author of two monographs: on Zapatismo and on Chicano/a politics of representation, as well as co-author (with Rene’ Peralta and Heriberto Yepez) of Here is Tijuana (Blackdog Publishing, London, 2006) and co-editor (with Josh Kun) of Tijuana Dreaming, Life and Art at the Global Border (Duke U. Press, 2012).

In 2022, she was awarded the Italian Council Minister of Culture Contemporary Art award in collaboration with On Public and Nero editions. In 2024 her latest book Hidden in Plain Sight, edited by Martina Angelotti, was published by Nero.