Edward J. Sullivan

Edward J. Sullivan

Professor and Co-Curator of El Dorado: Myths of Gold

Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard professor in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, New York University. A prominent scholar and curator in the field of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art, Sullivan is the author of numerous books and exhibition catalogs in this area. Among his publications are: Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910–1960; From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism, and The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas. He curated the 2019 exhibition Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx at the New York Botanical Garden and the 2018 exhibition Processing: Paintings and Prints by Roberto Juarez at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado. His forthcoming publication is Latino New York 1970-2110. A Personal Perspective, forthcoming from Yale University Press.