Editor in Chief INES_Magazina
Yohanna M Roa is a transcultural-feminist visual artist, art historian, and art critic based in New York. She holds a Ph.D. in the History and Critical Theories of Art program from the Universidad Iberoamericana, México, where she graduated Cum Laude with her thesis. She holds a MA in Women and Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, a MA in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Colombia, a meritorious thesis. Her most recent solo performance occurred at The Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid in 2024. Her artistic work has been studied, published, and discussed by various scholars and publications, including Karen Cordero for the 109th CAA Annual Conference in 2021, in “Revaluing Feminine Trajectories and Stitching Alternative Genealogies in the Work of Yohanna Roa,” and Natalia De la Rosa in “Yohanna M Roa, Textile Woman,” published in Casa del Tiempo Magazine, among others. Yohanna has been recognized with the Young Creators Award from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, and her work is part of the permanent collection of the Tlatelolco Cultural Center in Mexico City. She collaborates regularly with Art Nexus and WhiteHot Magazine. She has had lectures at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Mexico and the Latin American Public Art Seminar. She has curated projects and educational art and archive projects for institutions, including the National Center of Art Research (CENIDIAP) in Mexico and the Tertulia Museum of Modern Art in Colombia. She is the curator and program developer of WhiteBox NY. In addition, she has served as a jury member for events such as Wienwoche: Festival of Art and Activism in Vienna, Austria, in 2024, the Money for Women Grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund in the USA in 2024 and Liu Shiming Art Foundation Grants for Artists, 2024, NYC. She is the INES_Magazina editor.
