Thomas P Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced the appointee who will inaugurate a new curatorship for Latin American Art within the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. The position was established this spring through a generous gift from Daniel Brodsky, the Museum's Chairman, and his wife Estrellita B. Brodsky, an art historian and specialist in Latin American art. Iria Candela will become the Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the fall, focusing on the art of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. She will work closely with the modern and contemporary curatorial team, under the leadership of Sheena Wagstaff, the Museum's Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art, on researching and developing the collection and devising the program for both the main building and the Marcel Breuer-designed building that the Met will occupy once the Whitney Museum moves downtown in 2015. Iria Candela is currently Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where she has worked with Tate's Latin American Acquisitions Committee to acquire works of Latin American art for the collection. She is co-curator of the major traveling retrospective of Kazimir Malevich that will be presented at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in fall 2014. At Tate, she has worked on a retrospective of Mira Schendel (2013); the group exhibition No Lone Zone (2012), including Latin American artists Cinthia Marcelle, Teresa Margolles, and David Zink Yi, and the artists collective Tercerunquinto; the mid-career survey Gabriel Orozco (2011); and a solo project of emerging Uruguayan artist Alejandro Cesarco (2010). She also curated two group exhibitions in Spain: En Suspensión/In Suspension (2012) at the Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, showcasing the work of Alexander Apóstol, Cinthia Marcelle, and Héctor Zamora and addressing construction ideals and realities in contemporary cities; and low key (2008) at the Fundación Botín in Santander, featuring work by emerging artists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Prior to her work at Tate Modern, which began as an Assistant Curator in 2009, she was a Curatorial Assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and a Curatorial Researcher at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. She is the author of books and essays on modern and contemporary art, including the book Art in Latin America 1990-2010 (Tate Publishing, 2013), which examines the rich and varied production of 20 leading Latin American artists, including Doris Salcedo, Ernesto Neto, Francis Alÿs, Allora y Calzadilla, and Rivane Neuenschwander. Ms. Candela was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She holds a M.A. in Modern Art and Critical Studies from Columbia University in New York and a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Museum, Museo del Prado, and the Terra Foundation, among others.