Latin American Speakers Series 2024: Marcela Guerrero
"Latinx Art: Representation, Exhibitions, and Institutions"
Despite making up almost 20% of the US population, Latinx as an identity and as a lens through which to look at art remains severely understudied. In this presentation, Dr. Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum, will introduce the public to the ways Latinx art has been interpreted and represented in the different institutions where she has served. The lecture will conclude with a look at what is next for the field of Latinx art at the Whitney Museum and beyond.
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2026, Guerrero along with Drew Sawyer will curate the eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. Most recently, she co-curated with Angelica Arbelaez Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions. At the Whitney, Guerrero also curated no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria and Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy in 2022-23, among other exhibitions. 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. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison