Outstanding Alum Award History and Art History

Presented annually to a student who has achieved distinction after graduating with a George Mason degree in History or Art History.

2023 Awardee

Adriana Ospina

Adriana Ospina

Adriana Ospina is the Director of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States. Since 2007, she has held the position of Educational Program Manager and, since 2014, Curator of the Permanent Collection. She has curated numerous exhibitions; among them are Fusion: Tracing Asian Migration to the Americas; Femininity Beyond Archetypes: Photography by Natalia Arias; A Gaze through the CINTAS Fellowship Program; A Selection of Works from the CINTAS Foundation; Art of the Americas; and No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean 1945-Present. She has also co-curated exhibitions including Visual Memory: Home + Place; and Dialog: Landscape and Abstraction | Freya Grand and AMA Permanent Collection. Ospina edited the book Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS, 2017). She participated in the College Art Association Conference in 2013 and 2020. Ospina holds an MA in Art History from George Mason University.