Carol Damian, Ph.D., is a retired professor of art history at Florida International University.
A former director of the Frost Art Museum and chairperson of FIU's Department of Art + Art History, Dr. Damian is a strong fixture in Miami's arts community and a nationally recognized art historian. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American history and an M.A. in pre-Columbian art from the University of Miami, and a bachelor's degree in art history from Wheaton College. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean art, she has taught classes in Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Spanish and Contemporary Latin American Art, Modern Art surveys, and Women in Art.
Dr. Damian is the author of Carlos Estévez: Entelechy. Works from 1992–2018 (2019); Neorealism and Contemporary Colombian Painting (2000); and The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (1995), as well as the coeditor of Popular Art and Social Change in the Retablos of Nicario Jiménez Quispe (2005). She has also written articles and art catalogs about many Cuban and Cuban American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Cundo Bermúdez, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Agustín Fernández, Emilio Sánchez, Humberto Calzada, and Humberto Castro. Dr. Damian is the Miami correspondent for Art Nexus and Arte al Día. She lectures frequently on Latin American and Caribbean art and has curated numerous exhibitions. She currently serves as curator of the Kislak Center, part of the Miami Dade College Special Collections housed at the Freedom Tower, and curator of the Chapel of La Merced at Corpus Christi Church in Miami.