After a lengthy national executive search process, the Board of Trustees of the Bass Museum of Art appointed Silvia Karman Cubiñá as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Bass Museum of Art, effective October 1, 2008. Ms. Cubiñá is the Founding Director of The Moore Space (since 2002), an internationally - recognized contemporary art exhibition space in Miami, founded by collectors Rosa de la Cruz and Craig Robins. Prior to running The Moore Space Ms. Cubiñá served as an independent Curator since 1997, and held the position of Adjunct Curator at Inova, the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously, she held positions at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Cuban Museum of Art in Miami. At The Moore Space, she organized exhibition projects with artists such as: Allora & Calzadlla; Carlos Amorales; John Bock; Sean Dack; Yang Fudong; and organized numerous group exhibitions as well. Independently, Ms. Cubiñá has worked on exhibitions such as None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Landmark/Allora & Calzadilla at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in San Juan; Quisqueya Henríquez, Javier Cambre's project for the 2002 Bienal Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Pepón Osorio: Door to Door at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan; Arte del Nuevo Medio: Doce Propuestas Electrónicas at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico; and she was the Puerto Rico commissioner to the 1997 Bienal de Sao Paolo. Ms. Cubiñá will be succeeding Diane Camber, who retired as Executive Director of the Bass Museum of Art June 30, 2007.