María Elena Ortiz

María Elena Ortiz is the Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where she recently curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). She was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she founded the Caribbean Cultural Institute, curated several exhibitions, and worked to grow the museum’s collection. In 2024, Ortiz co-curated with Susanna V. Temkin and Rodrigo Moura, Flow States, El Museo del Barrio’s triennial dedicated to Latinx art. In 2023, she co-curated with Marina Reyes Franco, Puerto Rico NegrXsat the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. Her traveling exhibitions have been presented at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, the Warhol Museum of Art, the DePaul Museum, and the Tarbel Arts Center. In 2011, Ortiz was curator at La Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City.

Ortiz is a public speaker for many art institutions, and her writing appears in publications by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Frist Art Museum in Nashville, the Denver Art Museum, the KMAC Contemporary Art Museum in Louisville, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Lux Center for the Arts in San Diego, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Matadero in Madrid, the Sala de Arte Público Siquieros, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others.

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