Marcela Guerrero (proven at left) has been appointed the Jennifer Rubio Affiliate Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Artwork. Listed below are excerpts from “The Whitney Proclaims Two Curatorial Promotions” (ArtFix Each day). [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] ArtFix Each day experiences:
The Whitney Museum of American Artwork introduced immediately that assistant curators Marcela Guerrero and Rujeko Hockley have been promoted to newly endowed positions. Guerrero has been appointed the Jennifer Rubio Affiliate Curator and Rujeko Hockley will assume the position of Arnhold Affiliate Curator, each efficient July 1.
“Since becoming a member of the Whitney in 2017, each Marcela and Ru have continued to tell apart themselves as leaders within the subject, notably by their passionate and scholarly advocacy on behalf of residing artists,” mentioned Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Chief Curator. “Marcela has fully reshaped the Whitney’s engagement with Latinx artwork and artists, in each our program and assortment, whereas Ru has curated a few of our most groundbreaking and memorable current exhibitions. The Whitney is proud to proceed our assist of their curatorial visions and the artists they champion in these distinguished new positions.”
Rothkopf continued, “We’re additionally immensely grateful to 2 of our latest Trustees Paul Arnhold and Jennifer Rubio for his or her beneficiant assist of the Whitney’s workers and their perception within the subsequent technology of the Museum’s curatorial expertise. It’s an honor to have their names related to these positions, and we’re particularly thrilled that Marcela and Ru will inaugurate them.”
“I’m humbled and honored to obtain this promotion,” mentioned Guerrero. “With this new title, I really feel empowered to proceed working exhausting to carry consciousness of Latinx artwork nationally and globally. It’s additionally not misplaced on me that this promotion wouldn’t be doable had it not been for the trailblazing work of girls on whose shoulders I stand. Likewise, I’m proud to hold the identify of Jennifer Rubio in my title, a girl of shade altering the face of philanthropy.” [. . .]
Marcela Guerrero got here to the Whitney from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles the place she labored as a Curatorial Fellow from 2014 to 2017. On the Hammer, she was concerned within the much-lauded exhibition Radical Ladies: Latin American Artwork, 1960–1985, organized as a part of the Getty Basis’s Pacific Customary Time: LA/LA initiative, and guest-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta. Previous to becoming a member of the Hammer, she labored within the Latin American and Latino artwork division on the Museum of Tremendous Arts, Houston, the place she served as Analysis Coordinator for the Worldwide Middle for the Arts of the Americas. In her present position as assistant curator on the Whitney, Guerrero has organized vital exhibitions and labored to foreground the contributions of Latinx artists within the U.S. and enhance the presence of their works within the Whitney’s assortment. She was a part of the curatorial workforce that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Artwork, 1925–1945. She additionally curated the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Area, Trendy Structure, a present that includes the work of seven rising Latinx artists. Guerrero is co-chair of the Whitney’s Rising Artist Working Group and is at present organizing Martine Gutierrez, a public artwork set up that can be displayed on the facade of 95 Horatio Avenue. She has been instrumental within the Whitney’s current Spanish language initiatives each digitally and on-site. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and in artwork journals equivalent to caa.evaluations, ArtNexus, Caribbean Intransit: The Arts Journal, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Tremendous Arts, Interventions: Worldwide Journal of Postcolonial Research, and Diálogo. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a Ph.D. in artwork historical past from the College of Wisconsin, Madison. [. . .]
[Photo above: Whitney assistant curators (l.) Marcela Guerrero (Credit: Photo by Javier Romero) and Rujeko Hockley have been promoted to newly endowed positions.]
For full article, see https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/launch/3970-the-whitney-announces-two-curatorial-promotions
Additionally see: https://cvc.wisc.edu/workers/guerrero-marcela and “From Latinx artists to new takes on Surrealism, curator Marcela Guerrero’s favorite works at Frieze New York,” Gabriella Angeleti, The Artwork Newspaper: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/20/whitney-curator-marcela-guerreros-picks-at-frieze-new-york