AppointmentNovember 20, 2020
Klaudio Rodríguez Named Executive Director and Shirley Solomon as Deputy Director
Klaudio Rodriguez will serve as the institution’s Executive Director. He joined the Bronx Museum in September 2017 as Deputy Director and has held the post of Interim Director since January 2020. Joseph Mizzi, Chair of the Board of Trustees also announced that Shirley Solomon, the Museum’s Director of Government and Institutional Giving, has been promoted to Deputy Director.
Klaudio Rodriguez said, “I came to the Bronx Museum with great enthusiasm, knowing how remarkably this institution was succeeding in its mission of transforming lives through art. Over the past three years, working with this wonderful Board and staff, I have felt privileged to serve our Bronx community and an international art world that has looked to us for inspiration.”
Klaudio Rodriguez was born in Nicaragua in 1971. In the midst of revolution and at the age of six, he immigrated with his parents and younger sister to Miami. Growing up in neighborhoods not unlike those that surround the Bronx Museum, he was encouraged by his parents to discover a world of possibilities in the visual arts. Educated at New World School of the Arts (BFA) and Florida International University (BA and MA in art history and Latin American studies), Mr. Rodriguez began his museum career at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. While there, as curator, he developed a broad program of exhibitions and catalogues, including groundbreaking exhibitions on Latin American and Caribbean art, geometric abstraction, and contemporary art, as well as several other notable exhibitions including video works by women artists and an exhibition highlighting the couture of Cuban American fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.
Shirley Solomon is currently the Director of Government and Institutional Giving, successfully raising $2 million to $3 million annually from foundation and public sources of support, more than $15 million in capital project funding from the City of New York, and stewarding relations with donors, elected officials, and community stakeholders. She holds a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and a BA in Art History and African American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and has served on program and grant panel reviews for the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Klaudio Rodriguez said, “I came to the Bronx Museum with great enthusiasm, knowing how remarkably this institution was succeeding in its mission of transforming lives through art. Over the past three years, working with this wonderful Board and staff, I have felt privileged to serve our Bronx community and an international art world that has looked to us for inspiration.”
Klaudio Rodriguez was born in Nicaragua in 1971. In the midst of revolution and at the age of six, he immigrated with his parents and younger sister to Miami. Growing up in neighborhoods not unlike those that surround the Bronx Museum, he was encouraged by his parents to discover a world of possibilities in the visual arts. Educated at New World School of the Arts (BFA) and Florida International University (BA and MA in art history and Latin American studies), Mr. Rodriguez began his museum career at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. While there, as curator, he developed a broad program of exhibitions and catalogues, including groundbreaking exhibitions on Latin American and Caribbean art, geometric abstraction, and contemporary art, as well as several other notable exhibitions including video works by women artists and an exhibition highlighting the couture of Cuban American fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.
Shirley Solomon is currently the Director of Government and Institutional Giving, successfully raising $2 million to $3 million annually from foundation and public sources of support, more than $15 million in capital project funding from the City of New York, and stewarding relations with donors, elected officials, and community stakeholders. She holds a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and a BA in Art History and African American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and has served on program and grant panel reviews for the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
