AppointmentMarch 3, 2023
Marcela Guerrero Named the DeMartini Family Curator and Jennie Goldstein the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection
In her new role, Marcela Guerrero will continue her pioneering work on acquiring and exhibiting contemporary and historical Latinx artists in the Whitney’s program and collection. She will also play a key strategic role in working cross-departmentally to broaden the Whitney’s engagement with Latinx audiences and community partners while supporting overall strategic planning for the collection. She began her new position on February 18, 2023.
Guerrero has worked at the Whitney for nearly six years and was the Museum’s first curator to specialize in Latinx art. She currently serves as the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator and has curated landmark exhibitions like no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. That show, on view at the Museum through April 23, explores the impact of the devastating storm on contemporary Puerto Rican art. This powerful and renowned exhibition is the first survey of Puerto Rican art at a major U.S. art museum in fifty years.
The Museum also announced that current Assistant Curator Jennie Goldstein has been named the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection. In this role, Goldstein will focus primarily on building the Whitney’s collection and its displays, deepening the productive exchange between collection stewardship and exhibitions. She will support ongoing efforts to strategically develop the collection—an area where she has already made an impact, acquiring works by Darrel Ellis and Marie Watt, among others—and the artists, objects, and ideas that fuel the Museum. She will continue to work on exhibitions; her most recent curatorial project, In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture, 1965–1985, is on view at the Museum through March 5.
Guerrero has worked at the Whitney for nearly six years and was the Museum’s first curator to specialize in Latinx art. She currently serves as the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator and has curated landmark exhibitions like no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. That show, on view at the Museum through April 23, explores the impact of the devastating storm on contemporary Puerto Rican art. This powerful and renowned exhibition is the first survey of Puerto Rican art at a major U.S. art museum in fifty years.
The Museum also announced that current Assistant Curator Jennie Goldstein has been named the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection. In this role, Goldstein will focus primarily on building the Whitney’s collection and its displays, deepening the productive exchange between collection stewardship and exhibitions. She will support ongoing efforts to strategically develop the collection—an area where she has already made an impact, acquiring works by Darrel Ellis and Marie Watt, among others—and the artists, objects, and ideas that fuel the Museum. She will continue to work on exhibitions; her most recent curatorial project, In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture, 1965–1985, is on view at the Museum through March 5.
