Maria Elena Ortiz

Ep.215 María Elena Ortiz is curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). Previously she was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she curated group shows Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Art, and solo exhibitions with Firelei Báez, Ulla von Brandenburg, william cordova,Teresita Fernández, José Carlos Martinat, Carlos Motta, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. At PAMM she founded the Caribbean Cultural Institute, a curatorial platform dedicated to Caribbean art, and worked to grow the museum’s collection, securing works by Simone Leigh, Bisa Butler, Bony Ramirez, and others. In October 2024 Maria co-curated Flow States- La Trienal 2024 at El Museo del Barrio with Rodrigo Moura and Susanna Temkin. Photo Credit: Casey Kelbaugh The Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth https://www.themodern.org/program/maria-elena-ortiz | https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/surrealism-and-us-caribbean-and-african-diasporic-artists-1940 Caribbean Cultural Institute https://cci.pamm.org/en/author/mariaelena/ The Hopper Prize https://hopperprize.org/maria-elena-ortiz/ El Museo del Barrio https://www.elmuseo.org/ ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/6324-mara-elena-ortiz The Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/maria-elena-ortiz/ The Weisman Museum https://wam.umn.edu/maria-elena-ortiz ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/el-museo-del-barrio-la-trienal-2024-artist-list-1234708729/ ArtSpeak https://artspeak.fiu.edu/interviews/maria-elena-ortiz/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/maria-elena-ortiz/ Rizzoli Books https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/author/maria-elena-ortiz