Deborah Cullen-Morales

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Desde el 1 de mayo de 2020, es la nueva responsable del programa de patrimonio artístico y cultural de la Andrew W. Mellon Foundation en la ciudad de Nueva York. Cullen-Morales se une a la fundación desde el Centro de Investigación de Estudios Chicanos de Los Ángeles, de la Universidad de California, donde trabajó como investigadora. Antes fue directora ejecutiva del Bronx Museum of the Arts (Nueva York), desde julio de 2018 a diciembre de 2019. Desde mayo de 2012 hasta su nuevo nombramiento era la Directora y Curadora Jefe de la Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery en la Columbia University (Nueva York). En noviembre de 2012 fue nombrada comisaria de la 30ª Bienal de Artes Gráficas de Ljubljana y también en 2012 fue la comisaria jefe de la III Trienal poli-gráfica de San Juan - América Latina y el Caribe, celebrada en San Juan de Puerto Rico (2012). Cullen, durante los cinco años anteriores, antes de unirse a la Columbia University, fue Directora de Programas Curatoriales en el Museo del Barrio, en Nueva York. Se unió a este museo en el año 1997 y supervisó todas las exhibiciones itinerantes, la Colección permanente de más de 6,500 trabajos, y todas las publicaciones académicas corolarias. Entre las exhibiciones que ha curado para El Museo están Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (2009) y el proyecto viajante internacional Arte, Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 (2008-2011) por el cual recibió el premio Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Recientemente curó la exhibición retrospectiva Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer (2010) y ha escrito una monografía sobre Ferrer para A Ver: Revisioning Art History, una serie de publicaciones del Chicano Studies Research Center, de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced in June 2018 that Deborah Cullen-Morales will become the Museum’s new Executive Director. She will succeed Executive Director Holly Block, who passed away in October 2017. Cullen-Morales comes to the Museum from the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. After serving more than 15 years at El Museo del Barrio, New York, Cullen-Morales has been the director and chief curator of the Wallach for the past six years, overseeing the Gallery’s expansion into The Lenfest Center for the Arts on the University’s new campus in West Harlem. Cullen-Morales will report to the Board of Trustees and will be the strategic lead in developing and implementing plans for advancing the Museum’s mission. She will assume the post at the Museum in July 2018. Cullen-Morales has served as the director and chief curator at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in the City of New York since July 2012. Most recently, Cullen-Morales curated the exhibitions Passages: Robert Blackburn, a retrospective on the Jamaican-American printmaker (Driskell Center, MD, 2014); Interruption: The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana, 2013); and The Hive: The Third Poligraphic Trienal of San Juan (Puerto Rico, 2012). She is currently organizing Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Cullen-Morales has worked with Robert Blackburn and his Printmaking Workshop since the mid-1980s, and wrote her dissertation on the legendary Jamaican-American printmaker. In 2017, Cullen-Morales founded Uptown, a triennial of contemporary art initiated by the Wallach Art Gallery in collaboration with 12 institutions in northern Manhattan that showcased more than 75 artists’ work. Cullen-Morales oversaw the new Gallery facilities at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, on Columbia University’s rising Manhattanville campus. Cullen-Morales spearheaded more active participation in the broader community as well as a partnership with Columbia’s School of the Arts’ Visual Arts and Sound Arts Programs. Under her leadership, the Wallach Art Gallery had an increase in attendance of seven times the visitorship it had seen previously. Prior to joining the Wallach Art Gallery, Cullen-Morales served at El Museo del Barrio, New York from 1997 to 2012, culminating her tenure as director of curatorial programs. Her projects there included participating on the team for Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with the Queens Museum of the Arts and The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012), and curating Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer (2010, alongside a 2012 monograph for UCLA); Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (2009), and Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000 (2008). She also co-founded and co-curated the first four editions of El Museo’s contemporary art bienal, The S-Files (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004). Deborah Cullen-Morales is widely published and has contributed texts for recent retrospective exhibition catalogs on Laura Aguilar, Marisol, ASCO, and others. She has received an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, a J. Paul Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship, and a Faith Ringgold “Anyone Can Fly” Foundation Professional Scholars Grant.

Exposiciones comisariadas

30ª Biennial of Graphic Arts de Ljubljana

Colectiva

III Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Colectiva

TESTIMONIOS: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Colectiva