Professor of History of Art at the University of Barcelona and art critic. Since the 1990s her research and teaching have centred around analysis of  recent international art. Her publications include La crítica dialogada. Entrevistas sobre arte y pensamiento contemporáneo (Critical Dialogue,. Interviews on Art and Contemporary Thinking, 2006), Autobiografías visuales. Del archivo al índice (Visual Autobiographies. From Archive to Index, 2009) and El arte del siglo XX en sus exposiciones: 1945-2007 (20th Century Art Through Exhibitions: 1945-2007, 2009). She has been Visiting Fellow and Visiting Professor at the universities of Princeton, Yale, Columbia (NY), San Diego, California, Santiago (Chile), Bogotá (Colombia), Mexico D.F. and Monterrey (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela), Córdoba (Argentina) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and held a Getty Research Institute grant.