Starting on July, 2015, one of this generation's most influential curators, Mexico's Pablo León de la Barra 44, will assume a new post as the Director of one of Rio de Janeiro's most relevant cultural centers: Casa França Brasil. León de la Barra was selected by a panel of five experts and will take over from curator and Brazilian-art consultant Evangelina Seiler, who has headed the institution since 2009, organizing solo exhibitions by such renowned artists as Iole de Freitas, Hélio Oiticica, Laura Lima, Christian Boltanski, and Waltercio Caldas. Pablo León de la Barra will assume his new post after completing a two-year residence as curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's UBS MAP Latin America project the second phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative project—, which he started in August 2013 and was his first museum-based job after having established himself as an independent curator. León de la Barra's work at the Guggenheim has consisted of collaborating with the institution's curatorial team in the identification of works by contemporary Latin American artists that represent innovative artistic practices in the region, and acquiring them for the Guggenheim collection to form the exhibition Bajo el mismo sol: Arte de Latinoamérica hoy, which will travel to São Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna (MASP) in April of 2015, and to the new Jumex Museum in Mexico City during the second semester of the year. Mexican curator Pablo León de la Barra has worked since the mid-1990s as a producer of exhibitions, cultural researcher, and independent curator. Holding a PhD in Histories and Theories from the London Architectural Association, he has been a co-Director of the Novo Museu Trópical, a founder of the Bienal Tropical in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011), co-Director of the Blow de la Barra Gallery with Detmar Blow, co-Director of 24/7 Gallery with Beatriz López and Sebastián Ramírez, and co-Director of WC3 White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, among others. León de la Barra has curated a variety of local and international exhibitions; among the latter, Friends of London. Artists from Latin America in London, 2013, as part of the David Roberts Art Foundation's "Curators Series" program, where he was the first Latin American curator invited to participate. Pablo León de la Barra is also the publisher of Pablo Internacional Special Editions and published his own blog, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution. he has been an adviser and/or curator at fairs such as Pinta London, 2010-12; Maco - Mexico, 2009 – 2012; Circa - Puerto Rico, 2010; La Otra - Bogota, 2009, ArteBA - Buenos Aires, 2012; and ArtRio - Rio de Janeiro, 2011-2013. He is a member of the advising committee for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami and the Luis Barragán Foundation in Mexico.