Estrella de Diego is an essayist and professor of Contemporary Art In the Complutense University of Madrid, visitor professor of numerous institutions, among them, the New York University, and academician at the Fine Arts Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. De Diego has curated exhibitions as the Spanish representation at the 22nd Biennial of São Paulo (1994) and in the 49th Biennial of Venice (2001); Warhol on Warhol (La Casa Encendida, 2007) or Gala Salvador Dalí. A room of one’s own in Púbol (MNAC, 2018). She is a regular contributor to the newspaper  El País, and the author, among other titles, of the books La mujer y la pintura en la España del siglo XIX, El andrógino sexuado, Querida Gala, Travesías por la incertidumbre, Remedios Varo, Maruja Mallo and No soy yo. Has been awarded the XI Journalistic Prize on Reading by the Fundación Sánchez Ruipérez and has also received the Gold Medal to Merit in Fine Arts.