Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao is one of the most popular and richest Art Theorist who was born on February 5, 1964 in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. She has published writings that deal to inclusion, art therapy, feminism and inclusion. She is the director of the collection of 21 guias for Educacion Primaria “Posibilidades de ser a traves del arte” from Editorial Eneida. Editorial Eneida, that received in 2010the prize Rosa Regas to support educational material that has co-educational significance.
Marian Cao is promoter of the project on Gender and Museums since 2009 through the joint efforts of the that is part of the Institute of Feminist Investigations of the Complutense University of Madrid, together with the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the organization eMujeres which results in the online Museos en Femenino, to be the museum’s personnel and also be used in educational process through the use of itineraries to analyze the art in terms on gender (Didactic 2.0 Museums for women) in the Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museo Arqueologico Nacional and Museo del Traje. This is a method to help teachers teach using itineraries that examine the artwork from a gendered view.
Fernandez-Cao earned an Ph.D. in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1991. She also earned an M.F.A. on Psychotherapeutic Intervention (Intervencion Psicoterapeutica) in 2009. B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1987.
She was President of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) from 2012 until 2017, the goal of this organization is to improve the position of the woman in the Contemporary Art in Spain. She is the director of the investigation group, Research Group EARTDI, this group is a reference in the field of art and the psycho-social inclusion. She is the main researcher of Divercity, a European Community project created by the Complutense University of Madrid in collaboration with other institutions such as the Museum Thyssen, Intermediae, and other museums.
