Deborah Cullen

Last updated
Deborah Cullen
Born
U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Other namesDeborah Cullen-Morales
Education Graduate Center of the City University of New York (PhD)
Occupation(s)Curator, museum director
Spouse Arnaldo Morales

Deborah Cullen is an American art curator and museum director, with a specialization in Latin American and Caribbean art.

Contents

Career

Deborah "Deb" Cullen earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a dissertation on the African-American master printmaker Robert Blackburn.[ citation needed ] Cullen was curator of the print collection at Blackburn's New York-based Printmaking Workshop from 1993 to 1996 and arranged for some 2500 of its holdings to be acquired by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..[ citation needed ] She is the curator of a retrospective on Blackburn, planned for fall 2014 at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African-Americans and the African Diaspora, at the University of Maryland, College Park.[ citation needed ]

Since 2013, she has been the Director and Chief Curator of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York. [1] Prior to that, Cullen served as Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, New York, from 1997 to 2013, where she curated about a dozen shows (and authored the corresponding catalogs) that have helped to inform and educate Americans about contemporary movements in Latin American and Caribbean art. [2] She is one of a second generation of curators making sustained efforts to bring attention to Latino artists, following in the footsteps of Jacinto Quirarte, whose 1973 survey Mexican American Artists was a landmark in the field. [3]

At El Museo, Cullen organized a series of group shows under the collective title "The (S) Files/The Selected Files" in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2005. She was part of a curatorial team that organized the multi-venue exhibition "Caribbean: Crossroads of the World" at El Museo, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and she subsequently co-edited (with Elvis Fuentes) a companion anthology Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio and Yale University Press, 2012). Her book Rafael Ferrer, springing from her 2013 show "Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer," won the International Latino Book Awards first place prize for Best Arts Book. Her 2009 exhibition "Nexus" was called an "absorbing chronological history of the Latino art presence in this city in the first half of the last century". [4] Her 2008 show for El Museo, "Arte (no es) Vida," won an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. In 2002, she received a curatorial award from Faith Ringgold’s “Anyone Can Fly” Foundation. She has held curatorial fellowships at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York (2010) and at the J. Paul Getty Foundation (2001).

Cullen is a longtime Associate of the Los-Angeles-based Institute of Cultural Inquiry, for which she edited the 1997 volume Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4.[ citation needed ]

Cullen is married to the Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Morales.[ citation needed ]

Curated exhibitions

Publications

Notes

  1. Jovanovic, Rozalia (May 10, 2012). "Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery Appoints El Museo's Deborah Cullen Director". Gallerist.
  2. Noriega, Chon A. "Encuentros." American Art, 26:2 (2012): pages 2-6.
  3. Ramos, E. Carmen. "The Latino Presence in American Art." American Art 26.2 (2012): pages 7-13.
  4. Cotter, Holland. "Art Flows Two Ways in Pan-American City, U.S.A.", The New York Times, October 16, 2009, pages C23, C25.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yucef Merhi</span>

Yucef Merhi is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Museo del Barrio</span> Museum in Manhattan, New York

El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo, is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the City of New York. Founded in 1969, El Museo specializes in Latin American and Caribbean art, with an emphasis on works from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican community in New York City. It is the oldest museum of the country dedicated to Latino art.

María de Mater O'Neill is a Puerto Rican artist, designer and educator.

Raphael Montañez Ortiz is an American artist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem, New York City.

Jorge Glusberg was an Argentine author, publisher, curator, professor, and conceptual artist.

Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) was an American artist known for his architectural paintings and graphic lithographs. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, La Tertulia Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia.

Rafael Ferrer is a Puerto Rican artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Villegas</span>

Jason Villegas is currently a San Francisco based contemporary artist. He has exhibited across the United States and internationally. Villegas' work utilizes a wide spectrum of mediums including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, textile, video and performance. He has created his own artistic realm and visual language in which to explore concepts such as globalism, evolution, sexuality, cosmology, and consumerism. Motifs in Villegas' artworks include fashion logos, animal hybrids, weaponry, sales banners, clothing piles, anuses, cosmic debris, taxidermy, bear men, amorphous beasts, religious iconography, and party scenarios.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freddy Rodríguez (artist)</span> American abstract artist

Freddy Rodríguez was an American artist born in the Dominican Republic, who lived and worked in New York since 1963. Much of his work takes the form of large hard-edge geometric abstractions. His paintings have been widely exhibited and are held in several important collections.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens is a visual artist whose work spans drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, video, and public art. Her work combines images, sound, and text to investigate how the mind processes information. While themes of displacement, alienation, and synchronicity permeate her videos and interventions, her text-based works explore post-alphabetic communication, hyperconnectivity and “noise” as systems of information. Collazo-Llorens is the granddaughter of the Puerto Rican literary critic, linguist, and lexicographer, Washington Llorens. Though born and raised in Puerto Rico, she attended college and graduate school in the United States, receiving her BFA in printmaking and graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1990 and her MFA from New York University in 2002. She has taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Kalamazoo College, and, from fall 2014 to spring 2017, held the position of Stuart and Barbara Padnos Distinguished Artist in Residence at Grand Valley State University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosina Cazali</span>

Rosina Cazali is a Guatemalan art critic and independent curator. She serves as an advisory committee member for CIFO. Cazali works as a columnist for El Periódico, a Guatemalan newspaper. She co-curated the 2014 Guatemalan Biennial, XIX Bienal de Arte Paiz, along with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Anabella Acevedo and Pablo José Ramírez.

Jessica Lagunas is an artist and graphic designer whose work focuses on "the condition of woman in contemporary society, questioning her obsessions with body image, beauty, sexuality and aging." Lagunas was born in Nicaragua in 1971, but grew up in Guatemala, where she studied graphic design at the Universidad Rafael Landívar. In 2001, she moved to New York City with her husband, artist Roni Mocán, where they live and work.

Alejandro Anreus is a curator, art historian and critic who has focused his research on Latin American Art. Though he began his career as an artist, Anreus is now an art historian and poet, and is professor of art history and Latin American/Latino Studies at William Paterson University. Among his many accomplishments, Anreus is a two-time recipient of the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation and has worked as a curator with public collections such as the Montclair Art Museum and the Jersey City Museum during his career.

Carlos María "Rhod" Rothfuss was a Uruguayan-Argentine artist who specialized in painting and sculpture. He was considered a key theoretician for the development of the concrete art movement in Argentina in the 1940s and was a founding member of the international Latin American abstract art movement, Grupo Madí.

Elbio Raúl Lozza was an Argentinian painter, draughtsman, designer, journalist, and theorist who was part of the concrete art movement. He was part of the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención. He was the founder of the Perceptivist group. He was granted the Platinum Konex Award in Visual Arts from Argentina in 1992.

Inés Katzenstein is an Argentine curator, art historian, and art critic who specializes in Latin American art.

Sophie Rivera was an American artist and photographer of Puerto Rican-American descent. She was also an early member and instructor of En Foco, a not-for-profit organisation centred on contemporary fine art and photographers of diverse cultures. Rivera is best known for her 1978 photography series Nuyorican Portraits. Redefining Puerto Rican identity in the United States, the series included 50 black and white portraits taken in her home of Puerto Ricans in her neighbourhood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iliana Emilia García</span> Visual artist

Iliana Emilia García is a Dominican-born, American visual artist and sculptor known for large-scale paintings and installations. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA (DYPG) Collective. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Elba Damast was a Venezuelan artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suzi Ferrer</span> American contemporary feminist visual artist

Suzi Ferrer (born Susan Nudelman, also known as Sasha Ferrer, was a visual artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico from the mid-1960s to 1975. She is known for her transgressive, irreverent, avant-garde, art brut and feminist work.