Rate My Professor Michele Greet

Michele Greet is a Professor of Art History and Director of the MA Program in Art History at George Mason University within the Arts and Culture faculty. Affiliated with Latin American Studies, Honors, and Women's Studies, she previously served as president of the Association for Latin American Art. Greet earned her Ph.D. in Modern Latin American art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2004, her M.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York in 1998, and her B.A. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1993 as a James Bowdoin Scholar. Promoted to full professor in 2019, her research centers on twentieth-century Andean art and Latin American artists in Europe. Her current project, Abstraction in the Andes: an exploration of abstract tendencies in post-war art in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, earned her the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts for 2024–2025.

Greet authored Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 (Penn State University Press, 2009) and Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars, 1918-1939 (Yale University Press, 2018). She co-edited Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation (Routledge, 2018) with Gina M. Tarver. Key publications include “Two Pioneering Women bring Abstraction to the Andes” in Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art: An Anthology (Routledge, 2023), “Evoking Place: María Luisa Pacheco’s Abstract Paintings” in Archives of American Art Journal (2022), “Latin American Artists at the Académie Lhote” (University of Innsbruck Press, 2020), and “Looking South: Lincoln Kirstein and Latin American Art” for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue (2019). She has contributed essays to catalogues for Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and El Museo del Barrio. Greet's honors include National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Abstraction in the Andes (2020-2021) and Transatlantic Encounters (2012-2013), the Millard Meiss Publication Grant (2016), a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection (2008-2009), and a Getty Foundation publication grant (2008). She lectures widely on modern Latin American art.