Curator of Latin American Art

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Job Description

The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) seeks a Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America (“PPCRI”) to lead activities of the PPCRI, including ensuring broad dissemination and coordination of activities of the Institute’s Advisory Board with respect to the study of art from Latin America through ongoing research, exhibition and publication.

Responsibilities:

• Administers PPCRI’s budget, personnel and operations.
• Develops a strategy for taking the collection and research program to a higher level of activity.
• Develops scholarly initiatives in collaboration with the curatorial departments
• Participates in pan-institutional committees, organizes meetings of the Latin American and Caribbean Fund, and cultivate its members.
• Considers, solicits, and submits possible gifts or purchases of Latin American artworks for the collection.
• Organizes exhibitions and their display, including collection installations and loan exhibitions, focusing on the art of the Latin American region.
• Creates and maintains the budget for exhibitions, and for obtaining the loan of objects from other institutions or individuals.
• Researches exhibitions and produces the catalogue and written or recorded materials to accompany the exhibition.
• Works with Communications, Marketing, Graphics, Development and other departments to promote and support exhibitions and related activities.
• Works with Digital Media and Publications staff to produce the catalogue and budget for the publication of digital content, including photography.
• Solicit essays for the publication from relevant scholars.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in curatorial studies or criticism, visual arts and exhibition and four years of experience in the position offered or as the director of an Art Department.
• All required experience must have included managing a staff in conceiving a program of exhibitions of Latin American art, and curating those exhibitions, including commissioning artwork; directing and supervising an art exhibition/department budget in excess of $250,000; producing text to accompany exhibition pieces; and developing research initiatives focused on Latin American art.

Qualifications: Education – Preferred:
Masters or better in Cultural Studies or related field.

Reports to:
The Robert The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints and to the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs