New York, Feb. 16 The Whitney Museum in New York announced today that it has promoted Puerto Rican Marcela Guerrero, a specialist in the work of Latino artists, from assistant curator to curator.
Guerrero, with six years of experience in that prestigious museum, organized the exhibition “There is no post-hurricane world: Puerto Rican art after the passage of Hurricane María”, which will be open until April 23 and has earned him praise from specialized critics.
It has also organized other exhibitions centered on Latino artists in the United States such as “Earth, City, Building: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture,” in 2018, on seven emerging creators, the Whitney’s release notes.
It also highlights that Guerrero is responsible for many important acquisitions of relevant Latino artists that the museum has made for its collection and has led efforts to translate into Spanish the texts that accompany the exhibitions in the museum’s rooms as well as on the website.
The curator told the New York Times that her appointment “shows a deeper and more intense commitment (by the museum) to Latino art.”
“It is innovative that someone with my experience is at this level, making sure that Latino art is part of the fabric of the museum, not a unique exhibition here or there,” Guerrero, 42, also told the newspaper.
In her new professional roles, which begin this Saturday, the Puerto Rican will continue to focus on Latino art and will curate the DeMartini Family Collection, a position previously held by David Breslin, who recently left for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Times highlights other appointments of Latinos to various museums, highlighting that of the director of the Museum of Art of São Paulo (Brazil), Adriano Pedrosa, as curator of the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Pedrosa will be the first Latin American to organize the oldest contemporary art exhibition in the world.
It also highlights the recent appointments of E. Carmen Ramos at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Pilar Tompkins Rivas at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles and that of Rita González at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.EFE
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