María Suárez Caicedo holds two BA’s one in Philosophy and one in Arts from the University of Los Andes in Bogotá and a Research Master in Arts, Media and Literary Studies from the University of Groningen, where she also worked as a lecturer in the Arts, Culture and Media department.
Her research has focused on contemporary art and heritage practices and their engagement in processes of memory-making, reparation and repair in contexts of conflict and violence with a particular focus on Latin America and Colombia.
Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture as part of the Critical Heritage Ecologies research initiative. Her research project within this initiative focuses on contemporary participatory art and heritage practices and their engagement in processes of ecological reparation within contexts of social and environmental conflicts in Latin America.
Critical Heritage Ecologies 