Biography
I am chief curator and deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (formerly the Miami Art Museum) since 2011. From 2009 to 2011, director of the Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City, where I produced solo projects with numerous artists, including Geoffrey Farmer, Melanie Smith, Thomas Glassford, Karina Peisajovich, Mario Garcia Torres, Pablo Rasgado, Leonor Antunes, Praneet Soi, and Mariana Castillo Deball. I am a founding member of the Museum As Hub at the New Museum in New York City and have co-curated several exhibitions for the project, including: Marcel Broodthaers and Liliana Porter: The Incongruous Image (2011) and Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries (2008). My recent exhibitions in Miami include Frames of Reference: Latin American Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection and Restless: Selections from the Collection of the Miami Art Museum (2012). From 2001 to 2009, I served as the curator of contemporary art at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City where I developed an extensive program of international artists. My projects have included solo exhibitions of Liliana Porter (2009), Jeff Wall (2008), Artur Barrio (2008) and Lisa Yuskavage (2006), Unspeakable Happiness: A Selection of Contemporary Art from China (2005); Sodium and Asphault: British Art in Mexico (2004); Bas Jan Ader (2003). Prior to working in Mexico City, I served as associate curator for inSITE 2000, a site-specific, bi-national art project for the regions of San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. I have held curatorial positions at XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, and several institutions in New York, including El Museo del Barrio, Camilla’s, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Creative Time and the Museum of Modern Art. I attended the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where I received a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. Prior, also attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where I received a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Studio Art.
