Fiamma Montezemolo

Fiamma Montezemolo is both an artist (MFA, San Francisco Art
Institute) and a Cultural Anthropologist (Ph.D, University Orientale of
Naples). She is an established scholar in border studies and a faculty member
of the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at the University of
California, Davis. She is the author of La
Mia Storia Non La Tua: La Dinamica
Della Costruzione Dell’identita’ Chicana Tra Etero- e Autorappresentazioni (Guerini,
2004) and Senza volto: L’etnicità e il
genere nel Movimento Zapatista
(Liguori, 1999). She is also a co-author of Here
is Tijuana (Blackdog Publishing, 2006) and co-editor of Tijuana Dreaming: Life & Art at the
Global Border (Duke UP, 2012). As
an artist, she situates her work as a critical extension of the ethnographic
turn in contemporary art. She works with various media, mainly installation and
video. Her artwork has been widely exhibited both nationally and
internationally.

She
is represented by the Magazzino Dell’Arte Moderna gallery in Rome.