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Ricardo Alegria |
born 1921 in Puerto Rico; has been with and/or founded and/or directed the following institutions: Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, Museo de las Américas | prpop.org/biografias bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu |
Manuel Álvarez Lezama |
Puerto Rican art critic (i.e. El Nuevo Día) | endi.com |
| Marimar Benítez |
curator, art historian, art critic and director of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico; born in San Juan in 1942 | eap.edu |
Fatima Bercht |
chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York; former director of the Visual Arts Department at the Americas Society, New York | elmuseo.org |
Taina B. Caragol |
New York based Puerto Rican researcher and latin american art specialist; former bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library, MoMA Queens, New York and former coordinator of the Survey of Archives of Latino Art | MoMA Latin American and Modern Art Online Bibliography MoMA Survey of Archives of Latino Art |
Papo Colo |
Puerto Rican artist and cultural producer; founded Exit Art & Trickster Theater in New York together with wife Jeanette Ingberman; born 1947 in San Juan, lives in New York and Puerta de Tierra | papocolostop.com exitart.org trickstertheater.org |
Deborah Cullen |
curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York; co-curator of "El Museo's Bienal - The (S) Files", 1999-2005 of "Here & There/Aquí & Allá", 2001 and of "None of the Above" (Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut), 2004; American, married to New York based Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Morales | elmuseo.org |
| Yrsa Dávila |
cultural promotor, exhibition organizer and consultant for many prestigious institutions and projects in the last 20 years; Puerto Rican | |
Elaine Delgado |
Puerto Rican; former director of the Artes Plásticas division of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; works for Museo de Arte de Ponce since summer 2008 | |
Marcos Dimas |
New York based artist, founder and artistic director of Taller Boricua, New York; born 1943 in Cabo Rojo | tallerboricua.org |
Margarita Fernández Zavala |
Puerto Rican curator, critic, author and profesor at the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón campus; co-curator of the first "Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe"; founder of Mujeres Artistas de Puerto Rico Inc.; former director of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico | |
Elvis Fuentes Rodríguez |
Cuban born independent art historian, curator and critic; came to Puerto Rico in 2004, wrote for El Nuevo Dia, worked for the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and the Museo de Arte de Cayey, curator of award winning exhibition at the XXVI Bienal Internacional de Artes Gráficas, Ljubljana, Eslovenia, 2005 (selection of "La Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe"); CIRCA curator from 2006 on; curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York | |
Cheryl Hartup |
American; since June 2005 chief curator of the Museo de Arte de Ponce; former associate curator at the Miami Art Museum; she was art critic Joel Weinstein's partner who deceased in 2008 |
museoarteponce.org |
| Humberto Figueroa Torres |
Puerto Rican; former director of the Artes Plásticas division of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; now at the Museum in Cayey (University Campus) | |
| Silvia Karman Cubiñá |
Puerto Rican director of The Moore Space, Miami; co-curator of "None of the Above" (Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut), 2004; one of the CIRCA curators | themoorespace.org |
Lisa Ladner |
Swiss-Puerto Rican founder of el-status.com (2005), El Status Studio (2006), El Pulguero de los Artistas (2008) and Feria de Arte Sonoro (FAS 08); lives in Zurich and Puerta de Tierra | see contact page for additional information |
María Angela López |
since 2007 director of Museo de la Américas | prtc.net/~musame/ |
Teresa López |
Puerto Rican producer, artist, teacher and editor. The magazine Orificio can be downloaded from the internet. On her personal website you can find (a bid hidden) good introduction texts to Puerto Rican art history. | Magazine Orificio: geocities.com/orificio_2000 Personal Website: geocities.com/zepolt |
| Cathy Lucas |
Looks over the legacy of the late art dealer, curator and mentor Luigi Marrozzini (Rome, 1933-San Juan, 1997); fosters distribution of original works on paper | artefoundation.org |
| Michelle Marxuach |
Puerto Rican curator, director of M&M proyectos and founder of the Studio Residency Program Fortaleza 302; got international recognition with PUERTO RICO '00 [paréntesis en la "ciudad"], PUERTO RICO '02 [en ruta] and PUERTO RICO '04 [tribute to the messenger] | mmproyectos.com artnexus |
Elsa Meléndez |
Puerto Rican artist, curator of the Museo de Arte de Caguas | |
| Oscar Mestey Villamil |
Puerto Rican visual and theatre artist, dance choreographer and profesor at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) | |
Marysol Nieves |
Born 1965 in Camden, New Jersey to Puerto Rican parents. 2004 - March 31st, 2006 curator at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; former director of Visual Arts at The Americas Society, New York and former senior curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; has selected the Puerto Rican artists for the "El Museo's Bienal - The (S) Files", 2005; has been appointed Assistant Vice President of Latin Art Department at Sotheby's New York (Nov 2007) | press release Sotheby's |
Roberto José Nieves |
Founder and director of CIRCA, first international contemporary art fair in the Caribbean and Central América. Works with artistic directors Elvis Fuentes Rodriguez (CU) and Celina Nogueras Cuevas (PR) and curators such as Paco Barragan (ES). | CIRCA website article CIRCA 06 article CIRCA 07 |
Celina Nogueras Cuevas |
Independent curator and writer; teaches at EAP; artistic director of CIRCA. | |
Marianne Ramírez Aponte |
Newly appointed director of MAC (will start in Dec 08); still exhibition director at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR); former exhibition manager and head of education programm at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC); Puerto Rican, married to artist Edgar Rodríguez Luiggi | mapr.org museocontemporaneopr.org |
Mari Carmen Ramírez |
First director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, based at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX and curator at the same museum; special advisory director of "La Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe"; former director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico and of the Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican |
mfah.org ICAA trienalsanjuan.org |
Yasmin Ramírez |
New York based freelance curator, writer and specialist on the Nuyorican arts movement and Latin American art; co-curator of "El Museo's Bienal, The (S)Files/The Selected Files (1999, 2000, 2002)", El Museo del Barrio, New York; former consulting curator at El Museo and curator at Taller Boricua | |
| Lourdes Ramos |
Executive director of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico | mapr.org |
Adlin Ríos Rigau |
Puerto Rican art critic and writer, director of the Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón | sagrado.edu |
Dennis Rodríguez Ramon |
Bronx born curator, film producer, art dealer and collector; director of Galería Sin Título in Old San Juan which has served now reknown newcomers as starting point; focus not only on drawing, installation, painting but also on film shorts, theatre, performance; founder of Festival de la Tiza (Chalk Festival), Puerto Rico | see Galería Sin Título entry |
Francisco "Tito" Rovira Rullán |
former director of Galeria Comercial; work experiences include M&M proyectos (assistant director), Sotheby's San Juan and MAC (Education/Exhibitions department); currently developing a conference project and studying law | |
Juan Sánchez |
New York based Puerto Rican artist, political activist and profesor at the Hunter College, CUNY, New York; initiator of RICANdition; born 1954 in Brooklyn | ricandition.org (not yet online) |
Hiromi Shiba de Lecompte |
Former director and curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce and now president of the Puerto Rican chapter of the Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA) | |
María Emilia "Miyuca" Somoza |
Puerto Rican artist, born 1938 in San Sebastian; thriving force and long time director behind the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) which she will leave after 24 years in November 2008; former director of the Fine Arts department of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña | museocontemporaneopr.org |
| Corinne Timsit |
French; worked for Alfonso Arana, ran art galleries in Paris and Old San Juan (cloesed 1999); organized Basquiat show in Puerto Rico, publisher and editor of ArtPremium, lives in Puerto Rico | artpremium.com |
Teresa Tió |
former executive director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (2001-2005); Puerto Rican | www.icp.gobierno.pr |
Brenda Torres-Figueroa |
Artist and theorist of contemporary art, specialized in performance and new media. Former (and first) curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) till July 2008, Puerto Rican; currently lives in Chicago | |
| José Antonio Torres Martino |
Artist (individual exhibition at the MAP, 2005) and author ("Mirar y ver", 2001); born 1916 in Ponce | MAP exhibiton |
Susana Torruella Leval |
director emeritus of El Museo del Barrio; former director and chief curator of El Museo del Barrio; former curator at MoCHA, the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York | elmuseo.org |
| Mercedes Trelles Hernández |
curator and art critic; profesor at the University of Puerto Rico; former curator at MAPR | |
Pedro Vélez |
Artist, critic and curator; born 1972 in Bayamón; lived in Puerto Rico and the US; is moving to Chicago in 2008 | artnet.de westernexhib galeria comercial miaminewtimes.com |
Haydeé Venegas |
former director/curator at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; freelance curator, writer, art critic; faculty member of EAP; Puerto Rican | article by Venegas |
Joel Weinstein |
Satirical writer who deceased in 2008 and will be missed not only by his partner Cheryl Hartup (MAP curator) but also for his Rotund World website that covered art events and living experiences in Puerto Rico | rworld.thenextfewhours.com |
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José B. Andreu & Millie Pietri |
"Chilo" is a Puerto Rican engineer; the couple collects Puerto Rican and international contemporary art | |
| John T. Belk III & Margarita Serapión |
collectors of Puerto Rican and international contemporary art | |
| Diana & Moisés Berezdivin |
Espacio 1414 Ave. Fernández Juncos 1414 Santurce directors: Diana and Moisés Berezdivin (Cuban born couple, owners of Kress fashion stores, in Puerto Rico since 1963) curator: Julieta Gonzalez (Venezuelan) |
espacio1414.com nyartsmagazine.com |
Ignacio Cortés |
owner of Chocolate Cortés; collection concentrates on Caribbean and Latin American art |
ArtPremium |
Miguel Antonio Ferrer |
president and CEO of the UBS bank in Puerto Rico; patron of the arts, collector |
ArtPremium |
| José Hernandez Castrodad |
entrepreneur and collector Hernandez Castrodad owns the 2'500-square-foot art space Area in Caguas | artnet.com |
| Pedro Muñoz Marín |
collector of Puerto Rican contemporary art | |
| Bertita & Guillermo L. Martínez |
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César & Mima Reyes |
collector of international and Puerto Rican contemporary art; psychiatrist (C. Reyes); artist Jorge Pardo designed their house in Naguabo, PR | artnet.com |
Otto Reyes |
Puerto Rican architect and art collector Otto Octavio Reyes Casanova and his wife Vionnette Veray have collected about 1,500 Puerto Rican art works - mostly paintings; 153 of them made it into the 2008 Reyes-Veray show in the MAC which present building Reyes had remodeled | museocontemporaneopr.org |
| Dennis A. Simonpietri Monefeldt & Margarita Fernández Zavala |
he a lawyer with an affinity for Puerto Rican post-war prints, she an independent investigator, curator, professor with a healthy interest for emerging artists and art done by women - together they own a collection of contemporary Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American and some European paintings, prints, sculptures, objects, even futuristic santos; large art library and artistic book editions | |
| Young Collectors Group (MAPR) |
Does this group still exist and who are/were its members? Pls. write to info@el-status.com if you have further information on these or other collectors in Puerto Rico and/or of Puerto Rican art. | mapr.org |
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