Elena Shtromberg is a Professor of Art History at the University of Utah. She specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American visual culture. Her 2016 book, Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (Univ of Texas Press) explores visual forms of critique and subversion during the height of Brazilian dictatorship. She has curated a number of exhibitions, among them a co-curated survey entitled “Video Art in Latin America,” which opened as part of the Getty Foundation’s initiative PST: LA/LA in 2017. Her co-edited volume, Encounters in Video Art in Latin America was published in 2023 with Getty Publications. During the Fall of 2023, she was a scholar in residence at the Clark Art Institute, where she was working on her current book project, The Politics of Memory. She is also co-curating the exhibition Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s-2020s, focusing on an intergenerational group of Latin American and Latinx women artists working with mail art, opening in September 2025 at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside.