Oriana Baddeley is a professor of transnational art history at UAL where from 2011 to 2020 she was Dean of Research.
She was educated at Holland Park Comprehensive, London and studied history and theory of art at the University of Essex where she completed her PhD in 1986 under the supervision of Dawn Adès.
Baddeley has written extensively on contemporary Latin American art, frequently in relation to gender, and on Frida Kahlo[2][3][4] and Teresa Margolles in particular.
The book Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America[5] remains a standard text and she collaborated with Gerardo Mosquera to produce the English language version of Beyond the Fantastic: Art Criticism from Contemporary Latin America.
[6] With Toshio Watanabe and Partha Mitter, (2001–2004), she worked on a major AHRC funded project, Nation, Identity and Modernity: Visual Culture of India, Japan and Mexico, 1860s–1940.