Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
In conversation with Laura Bardier, Director, ESTE ARTE.
Presented by César Escandarani, CEO, Planet Partners.
In Spanish, without translation.
By invitation only.
With the support of LeMont.
MARCELA GUERRERO
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Marcela Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Most recently, she co-curated with Angelica Arbelaez Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions. Guerrero also curated no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria and Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy in 2022-23. She was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, and also curated the 2018 exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. From 2014 to 2017, she was the Curatorial Fellow for Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 organized at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and in art journals such as ArtNexus, Caribbean Intransit: The Arts Journal, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Diálogo.
LAURA BARDIER
Founding Director of ESTE ARTE, and Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation in New York. Previously, Bardier held key positions at the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli (Italy) and major private collections in the United States. She has curated exhibitions in Uruguay, Italy, and the U.S.; her writing on contemporary art has been published in Domus Magazine, Arte al Día, Review, and Infonegocios. Bardier was a member of the National Committee of Visual Arts of Uruguay and is a Board member of ArtTable, ICI-Independent Curators International, and Creative Capital.