Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano is an art historian, researcher, and cultural manager based in Madrid who works internationally. She specializes in the intersection of art, sustainability, and food studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. She independently designs and carries out public programs, exhibitions, and editorial projects distinguished by collaboration, accessibility, and cross-disciplinary approaches. She also works as a cultural consultant for public and private institutions, providing strategic content development and specialized advisory; recent collaborations include Acciona Living & Culture.

She is the co-author of Banana Craze, an award-winning digital humanities project that explores the presence of banana plantocracies in contemporary visual culture and their ties to ecology, identity, and colonial legacies. The project will soon result in a book published by Routledge (August 2026) and an internationally touring exhibition.

Blanca spent over a decade at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York, where she directed academic and research initiatives in the form of public programs, residencies, and fellowships. During this time, she forged partnerships with leading universities and art institutions such as Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Texas, DIA Foundation, and the New Museum. She also served as Chief Editor of Vistas: Critical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art.

She holds a PhD in History of Art and Archaeology from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her research connects environmental issues with craft practices, with a doctoral dissertation on bricolage in Cuban art. Her work has been widely presented at international conferences and published by leading academic presses.

She serves on the Editorial Board of the Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture journal (University of California Press) and on the Alumni Association Board of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.