Aimé Iglesias Lukin
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 rethink the Americas beyond political cartographies and to highlight the value of the local among the global. Her two-part exhibition and book This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975, was based on her Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University.
Manuela Well-Off-Man
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 curated many exhibitions on contemporary Indigenous and American art, including national and international traveling contemporary Native American art exhibitions. Well-Off-Man received her Ph.D. in art history from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and earned her M.A.
Rachel Vorsanger
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. Her current projects examine Madrid, Barcelona, New York City, and Mexico City as sites of international art making.
Delia Solomons
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 “Latin American art” amid intensifying inter-American frictions after the Cuban Revolution.
Mary-Kate O'Hare
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 guide clients in building and managing museum-quality art collections. Prior to Citi, O'Hare spent 13 years at the Newark Museum, where she served as Curator of American Art and Department Head.
Vivian Li
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 Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia (co-curated) and the retrospective Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances. Prior to coming to the DMA, she worked at the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Worcester Art Museum and was a lecturer at Clark University.
Ana M. Franco
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 President of the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), was the 2020 Latin American Collection Fellow of the Cisneros Institute of the Museum of Modern Art New York, and has been a Fulbright Scholar.
Elizabeth Ferrer
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 capacity, she is responsible for exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, NY; and the Aperture Foundation Gallery, NY; MARCO, Monterrey, NL, among those at other institutions.
Francesca Ferrari
Iria Candela is currently the Estrellita B. Brodsky curator of Latin American Art in the fall, focusing on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Previously, she was Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she co-organized exhibitions such as Malevich (2014), Mira Schendel (2013), Gabriel Orozco (2011), and Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde (2010). Candela received her PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and MA from Columbia University.