Mary Schneider Enriquez Appointed as Harvard Art Museum Curator
By STAN PARCHIN
April 2, 2010
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| Mary Schneider Enriquez. Photograph provided by Harvard Art Museum. |
The
Harvard Art Museum announced today the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5, 2010. She has been the museum's Latin American art advisor since 2002.
Education and Experience
Mary Schneider Enriquez received her A.B. (1981) and A.M. (1987) from Harvard University. She is completing her Ph.D. in Harvard's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Schneider Enriquez has served as a member of the university's Advisory Committee for its David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies since 1995. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston since 1999. The scholar is currently a visiting lecturer in fine arts at Brandeis University.
An independent art critic, Schneider Enriquez has written for
ARTnews,
ArtNexus and
Art in America magazines. She curated the special exhibition
Gerardo Suter: Labyrinth of Memory (1999) at the Americas Society and the Sculpture Center. The author also co-curated
Matta: Making the Invisible Visible (2004) at the McMullen Museum of Art.
At the Harvard Art MuseumSchneider Enriquez is a member of the Harvard Art Museum’s World Visuality Committee. The group is dedicated to addressing societies and their artistic traditions that have previously been underrepresented at the institution. It also emphasizes collaboration with the university's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, among other entities. At the museum, Schneider Enriquez co-curated
Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (2001).
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum, said, “With Mary Schneider Enriquez's long and varied background in the art world, especially in Latin America, and as someone who already has an intimate knowledge of the Art Museum and Harvard University, she brings a distinct perspective to this position.”