Brandon Agosto

Brandon Agosto specializes in the early art history and archaeology of Mesoamerica. For his MA thesis, Agosto conducted an iconographic and epigraphic study of a Maya ceramic vessel, illustrating a war scene that took place between 603–811 CE and manufactured in the Mexican state of Chiapas. His dissertation considers the material history, manufacture, and reception of mural painting from the eighth through eleventh centuries at the city of El Tajín in the Gulf Coast of Veracruz.

Agosto assisted with the Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has completed prior exhibition and collections research with Columbia University Art Properties, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University Art Gallery, and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is also a trained field archaeologist and has completed investigations in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Miami. 

Agosto is a 2026–2027 Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His research has also been supported by the Association for Latin American Art (2026), Kislak Family Foundation (2025), Robert Stigler Fund for Archaeological Fieldwork (2024–2025), Provost’s Office at Columbia (2023–2024), and FLAS fellowship language program in Yucatec Maya (2022–2023). He received his MA in Archaeological Studies from Yale University (2017) and BA in Anthropology from Florida International University (2014).