Giorgia Gastaldon is  assistant professor in Contemporary Art History at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria. Previously she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and an adjunct professor at University of L’Aquila. In 2014 she received a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Udine with her dissertation Mario Schifano’s Painting 1958-1964, which has been published in 2021 by Bibliotheca Hertziana and Silvana Editoriale. In 2017 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Center for Art Studies Ragghianti, where she ran a research project on Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Florence (published as a book in 2019). Between 2014 and 2016 she spent two-years as a research fellow in the FIRB ministerial project Spreading visual culture: contemporary art through periodicals, archives and illustrations. Alongside her academic career, she works as an independent curator of contemporary art. She was the scientific director of Palinsesti (San Vito al Tagliamento, PN) between 2015 and 2019 and co-curated the exhibition Accardi. Contesti at Museo del Novecento (Milan, 2020-2021). She has published several scholarly essays, articles, and monographs, focusing on topics such as the reception of American art in Italy, the role played by magazines in the Italian artists’ update, the Italian art critic, and women artists’ production in the Sixties.