Jorge Luis Marzo

Qualifications and academic training

• PhD in Cultural Studies, Translation and Gender from the Universitat de Vic (2017)
• Degree in Geography and History, History of Art from the University of Barcelona (1987)
• Graduate in Pedagogical Training, CAP. Ministry of Education and Culture (1988)

Teaching experience

• Lecturer at BAU Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny de Barcelona (UVIC). Since 2012.
• Escola Massana (UAB), Barcelona. From 2010 to 2014.
• Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny (UPF). From 2004 to 2012.
• Institut d'Estudis Politècnics (IDEP), Barcelona. 1996-2012.
• Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia), 1997.
• (Master) Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (ISIA), Urbino (Italy), 2019.
• (Master) University of Seville. Since 2018.
• (Master) Facultat de la Comunicació Blanquerna (URL). Since 2013.
• (Master) University of Girona. 2003-2010.
• (Master's Degree) Universitat d'Alacant. 2002-2007.
• (Master) Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (UPC). 2003-2007.

Activity and/or professional career

Jorge Luis Marzo (Barcelona, 1964) is an art historian, PhD in Cultural Studies, exhibition curator, audiovisual producer, lecturer (PDI) in Iconography and Communication at BAU College of Arts and Design of Barcelona, and member of GREDITS (Research Group on Design and Social Transformation). His professional work has taken him, in addition to Spain, to Mexico, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Portugal and Chile. He has developed numerous collaborative research projects, in exhibition, audiovisual or editorial formats, often in relation to the politics of the image. Director of various research projects in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Canada and Portugal. Director of several international congresses. Member of the scientific committee of various academic institutions and publications. Evaluator of various academic bodies.

Research

• "Acting in Emergency. Rethinking design agency during (and after) Covid-19", 2021-2024. Real Academia Española de Roma (AECID), BAU Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny de Barcelona, Università Federico II (Nàpols), ISIA (Urbino), Università di Enna Kore (Sicilia)
• ‘Las experiencias de lo político en la España del Franquismo’, 2018-2021. R&D. Ministeri d'Economia i Competitivitat: HAR2017-82655-P
• ‘Long exposure: Spanish contemporary art narratives for large audiences’, 2018-2021. R&D. Ministeri d'Economia i Competitivitat: HAR2015-67059-P
• ‘Cultura y ciencia nacionales en el primer franquismo (1939-1959)’, 2016-2020. R&D. Ministeri d'Economia i Competitivitat: HAR2016-75559-P
• ‘Interface Politics’. IMAGIT - Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, 2016
• "El d_efecto barroco. Políticas de la imagen hispana", 2006-2010. AECID Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional

Publications

• Le veggenti. Immagini nell'era della previsione (Mimesis, Milano, 2025).
• La curva. Patologías gráficas (Cátedra, Madrid, 2024).
• Las videntes. Images in the Age of Prediction (Arcàdia, Barcelona, 2021).
• La competencia de lo falso. Una historia del fake (Cátedra, Madrid, 2018).
• Art in Spain (1939-2015). Ideas, practices, politics (Cátedra, Madrid, 2015).

Acknowledgements

• Two six-year research periods recognised by the AQU (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari, Generalitat de Catalunya), 2013-2019 / 2019-2024.
• Ciutat de Barcelona Grant Award, for ‘La curva’, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, 2021.
• Grant from the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, 2020.
• Award from the Association of Art Critics of Catalonia (ACCA), for the documentary ‘MACBA: The Right, the Left and the Rich’, Barcelona, 2014.
• ESPAIS Prize for Art Criticism and Art History for the book "Arte moderno y franquismo. Los orígenes conservadores de la vanguardia y de la política artística en España", Girona, 2007.

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