Rhea Nayyar (Hyperallergic) writes about Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, who will be the National Gallery of Art’s associate curator of Latinx art, starting on July 1, 2024. Working within the museum’s modern and contemporary art department, she will be in charge of researching, expanding, and exhibiting the NGA’s collection of modern and contemporary Latinx art, which includes work by Christina Fernandez, Rupert García, Felix González-Torres, Martine Gutierrez, Carmen Herrera, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Miguel Luciano, Ana Mendieta, and Freddy Rodríguez, among others. She was previously associate curator of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
This summer, curator and art historian Natalia Ángeles Vieyra will be joining the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, as the institution’s first-ever curator of Latinx Art. With her expertise in 19th-century through contemporary Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean art, Vieyra will assist with further developing the NGA’s existing holdings in this area through new acquisitions, scholarship, exhibitions, and public programming.
“I am excited to engage with the rich historic collections at the NGA, and to think about how these collections can be activated through collaborations with contemporary Latinx artists and the Latinx community — both in DC and nationally,” Vieyra told Hyperallergic, noting her specific expertise on 19th-century Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller, the subject of her dissertation at Temple University.
Vieyra has held fellowships at various museums on the East Coast and has worked as a curatorial assistant at both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The term “Latinx” has been the subject of heated discussions in recent years, as scholars across different fields have attempted to define a vast and heterogeneous demographic group of Latin American descent in the United States. Though the new position’s title refers to “Latinx art,” Vieyra will be engaging with works by non-diasporic artists as well. She will be joining a team of seven curators in the NGA’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art to work on the museum’s 20th- and 21st-century collections and shows and will partner with other departments to further integrate Latinx art and perspectives throughout the institution’s programming.
The NGA embarked on a search for the position after receiving a $500,000 grant from the Getty Foundation in early 2023. The grant is a part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM) initiative — a combined $5 million funding pool from the Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra foundations distributed across 10 institutions to support Latinx art acquisitions and develop permanent curatorial roles specific to Latinx art as well.
For full article, see https://hyperallergic.com/897054/national-gallery-of-art-names-natalia-angeles-vieyra-first-ever-curator-of-latinx-art/
For more information, see https://www.nga.gov/press/2024/natalia-angeles-vieyra.html
Also see https://www.artforum.com/news/national-gallery-names-natalia-angeles-vieyra-inaugural-curator-latinx-art-551935/, https://www.noticiasnewswire.com/es/natalia-angeles-vieyra-curadora-asociada/ricas.
Rhea Nayyar (Hyperallergic) writes about Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, who will be the National Gallery of Art’s associate curator of Latinx art, starting on July 1, 2024. Working within the museum’s modern and contemporary art department, she will be in charge of researching, expanding, and exhibiting the NGA’s collection of modern and contemporary Latinx art, which includes
