Women and Abstractions in Postwar Americas Symposium

Mónica Amor teaches modern and contemporary art with a focus on intermedial practices and transnational dialogues. Her approach is global and highlights the role of institutions and exhibitions in the production of cultural representation.

She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate...

Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College. Her 2004 book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries) is in its 10th edition. Other publications include Leonora Carrington: The Tarot (2020 &...

Laura Anderson Barbata, born in Mexico City, is a Mexican transdisciplinary artist currently based between New York and Mexico City. Since 1992, she has initiated long-term projects and collaborations in diverse communities, including the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago...

Francesca Ferrari is an art historian specializing in early twentieth-century European and Latin American art. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, having obtained her PhD from the...

Elizabeth Ferrer is a New York based independent curator and writer focusing on Latinx art and photography. She previously directed the curatorial programs at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; the Americas Society; and the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University. Working in a freelance...

Ana M. Franco is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and will be moving to Rice University in the Summer of 2025, where she will take a position as Associate Professor in Art History. She is currently...

Dr. Vivian Li is The Lupe Murchison curator of Contemporary Art. Since she began at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) in 2019, Li has realized ambitious collaborations with artists such as Tiffany Chung, Mel Chin, and Guadalupe Rosales, and organized Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar...

Mary-Kate O'Hare is the Susan E. Lynch executive director and CEO of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. She brings over 25 years of experience in art leadership, previously as Head of Art Advisory and Director at Citi Private Bank, where she led global specialists that...

Delia Solomons is an associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Drexel University. Her book Cold War in the White Cube: U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art, 1959–1968 (Penn State University Press, 2023) chronicled a boom of U.S. exhibitions that sought to codify...

Rachel Vorsanger is pursuing her PhD in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Her research examines the role of gender and displacement in modern art from the United States and Europe from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries...

Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. She previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark. She has more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums. She has...

Zuna Maza is a curator from San Juan, Puerto Rico, right now based in Brooklyn, New York. Her curatorial focus is largely devoted to contemporary practices with a particular interest in installation, multimedia, and material-focused practices. Currently, Maza is assistant curator...

Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the director and chief curator of Art at Americas Society in New York. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has lived in New York since 2011. Since joining the organization in 2019, she has led a program of exhibitions, publications, and programs aiming to...

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...