Paloma Checa-Gismero is a historian of global contemporary art. She is an associate professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke University Press, 2024).
Before joining the Visual Arts department at UC San Diego, she was a tenured professor at Swarthmore College. During the academic year 2023/24 she was Regional Faculty Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania.
An experienced educator, curriculum developer, and curator of public programs, she has written extensively about art biennials, craft, and socially engaged art.
She lives in San Diego, CA.
