Maite Garbayo (Iruñea, 1980) is a researcher and writer. Holds a PhD in art History from the University of the Basque Country and a Master’s in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish acronym UNAM). She carried out postdoctoral research in UNAM's Art Research Institute under the project Intersubjectivity and transference: towards an aesthetic of the incalculable. She is currently an academic and full professor at the Ibero-American University (Mexico) and has seen her work published in various exhibition catalogues and specialist magazines. She edits Pipa, a publication on contemporary art, critical theory and feminism. She has taught in many public and private institutions, and since 2014 has been part of the Red de Conceptualismos del Sur (Southern Conceptualism Network). In 2016 she published her first book, Cuerpos que aparecen, performance y feminismos en el tardofranquismo (Bodies which appear, performance and feminism in the late-Franco period) (Consonni). Her research looks at the intersections between feminist theories and visual culture, and in particular at performance practices, the body and performativity.