Concepción Lomba Serrano is a doctor in Art History and a professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza. In July 2019, she was elected director of the university research institute Patrimonio y Humanidades. She has been an investigator for thirty-six years. She has been the principal investigator of the Vestigium reference group since 2009, principal investigator of the research project Las artistas en España entre 1804 y 1939 ‒HAR2017-84399-P‒ funded by the MINECO, the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, (2018-2020); and since June 2016 she has been an advisor to the Research and Development Advisory Council of the Government of Aragon in the area of Humanities. She is also curator of the Faculty Body of Museums (on voluntary leave) and carried out her work at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid (1987-1992). In 2005 she was elected permanent academic member of the Royal Academy of Nobles and Fine Arts of San Luis in Zaragoza, between 2008 and 2016 she held the positions of vice-rector for Cultural and Social Projection and vice-rector for Culture and Social Policy at the University of Zaragoza. And, finally, in May 2016, she was appointed member of its Advisory Board.

Throughout all this time her research has essentially been structured around contemporary art, with a clear vocation for social constructs, and around cultural heritage. She has published almost two hundred scientific works, including books and articles referring essentially to the artistic vanguards. She has also directed six doctoral theses and currently directs many others; she has curated different temporary exhibitions ‒La imagen de la mujer en el arte contemporáneo in 2003, Goya e il mondo moderno in 2010, or Fatales y perversas. Mujeres en la plástica española (1885-1939) in 2016‒ and she has organized courses and conferences such as the five editions of the symposia Reflexiones sobre el gusto and given conferences in different European cities. Her interest in gender studies, in the space occupied by women in the art scene and their contribution to the collective artistic universe, has led to different publications and exhibitions since 2003, where she has told specific stories of new protagonists or aspects of the imaginary attributed to women. The result of this interest is also the R+D project that she is currently leading ‒Women Artists in Spain, 1804-1939‒, or the recent publication Bajo el eclipse. Pintoras en España entre 1880 y 1939, published by the CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council, in 2019.

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