Lecture by Marcela Guerrero

This event is a part of MICA's Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Bicentennial Celebration.

Reception to follow.
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2026, Guerrero along with Drew Sawyer curated the 82nd edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. Also at the Whitney Museum, she curated no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria (2022-23), Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art (2018), and she was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 (2020).

From 2014 to 2017 she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she worked on the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, and organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Prior to joining the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she served as research coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and in art journals such as caa.reviews, ArtNexus, Caribbean Intransit: The Arts Journal, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Diálogo. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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