The NYU Center for Disability Studies is happy to welcome two Fulbright fellows in disability arts for the 2025/2026 academic year. You can read more about their work below.
Júlia Ayerbe is a Spanish-Brazilian contemporary art researcher. Her work focused on dissident corporealities, accessibility, and publishing practices. She is a PhD student in the Art History Department at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Visiting Researcher at NYU Center of Disability Studies through a Fulbright fellowship. Her doctoral research examines the practices of the Latin American artists Anita Malfatti, Lorenza Böttner, and Nazareth Pacheco through the methodological and theoretical frameworks of disability studies. She has collaborated as editor, writer, curator, and advisor in South America, Europe, and the US with institutions such as Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Sesc, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, CA2M, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Bétonsalon, Museo Reina Sofía, San Diego Museum of Art, Council of Europe, among others. She is a disabled person and advocates for disability justice.
Nadia Markiewicz is a visual artist, performer, and creator of spatial installations and video works based in Warsaw. Her practice examines disability from an autobiographical perspective, seeking metaphors within the surreal potential of entertainment and mass visual culture. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Center for Disability Studies at New York University, where she researches historical forms of displaying extraordinary bodies in relation to contemporary performance art, and a PhD candidate at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York (2023). Recipient of the Europe Beyond Access Award granted by Zachęta National Gallery of Art and the British Council (2021), and the Grand Prix of the 10th Rybie Oko Young Art Biennial (2022). She holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Her work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (on view through April 12, 2026). Her work has also been presented, among others, at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.