Alejandro Nodarse Jammal, M.A.

Ale (Alejandro) Nodarse Jammal is an artist, writer, curator and art historian. Currently a doctoral candidate in History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University, they received a dual B.A. and M.A. in the History of Art from Yale University in 2019 with two Master’s Theses – the first on Jusepe de Ribera’s late altarpiece, San Gennaro Escaping from the Furnace Unharmed, with regard to contemporary perceptions of martyrdom; and the second on Juan Sánchez Cotán’s still-life paintings in relation to optical diagrams. Their art historical research spans the early modern period, with an emphasis on the relationship between the history of art and the history and philosophy of science, and on observation, memory, language and ethics. Ale has gained curatorial experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where their archival research brought forth new light on John Singer Sargent’s preeminent African-American model, Thomas McKeller –– the subject of the 2020 exhibition, Boston’s Apollo. Ale is also a practicing artist working across sculpture, text, print and performance. They received their MFA (Fine Arts) at the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art in June, 2025. https://www.alenodarse.com/