Mary K. Coffey

Professor of Art History and Affiliated Faculty in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies. Dr. Coffey specializes in the history of modern Mexican visual culture with an emphasis on Mexican muralism and the politics of exhibition. She is the author of How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State (Duke University Press, 2012) and Orozco’s American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Duke University Press, 2020) among other essays on muralism, folk art, and transnational cultural exchange between the U.S. and Mexico.