Lidia Ferrara is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research, writing, and teaching span the fields of modern and contemporary art history, museum studies, and performance studies. Lidia’s research areas include global histories of performance art and its institutional circulation, critical legacies of postmodern discourse, and the intersections of contemporary art history and contemporary art conservation.

Lidia’s dissertation is titled “Staging Strategies: Theatricality, Remaking, and the Afterlife of 1960s and 1970s Feminist Performance Art.” Her study traces how three American women artists returned to their historical performance works and appealed to theatrical techniques to remake them for museum display in the 1990s and early 2000s. Lidia is also a Research Assistant at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. From 2016-2018, she was Curatorial Assistant, Collections, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Lidia holds a MA in Art History from UCLA and a BA in Art History and French from Barnard College.