Project Curator

Elizabeth Cerejido

CURATOR
Dialogues in Cuban Art was conceived and curated by Cuban-born, Miami-based Elizabeth Cerejido.  The project, which brought together Cuban and Cuban-American artists and curators through cultural exchanges and symposia in both Miami and Havana, received a Knight Foundation Art Challenge grant in 2014.  Cerejido has been a leading figure in the South Florida community in creating projects and initiatives that facilitate engagement and meaningful encounters between artists from both sides of the Florida Straits.

Background

Cerejido received her PhD in Art History from the University of Florida in Gainesville and earned her Masters of Arts in Latin American Studies at University of Miami. Her curatorial and scholarly work has focused on modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art, with a specialization in the visual arts production and cultural politics of Cuba and its diaspora. Cerejido is former Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and was Curator at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. Selected exhibition projects include: Between the Real and the Imagined: Abstract Art from the Cintas Collection; Equipajes personales: Personal Luggage: Social Practice in Havana featuring an installation by artist Candelario, co-founder of LASA (Laboratorio Artístico San Agustín); Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell; A Room of One’s Own: Teresita Fernández, María Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez, and María Martínez-Cañas and The Parallax Effect: Cuban and Cuban-American Photography, among others. In 2004, she developed a performance art series for Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute’s Culture on the Edge that included projects by Tania Bruguera, El Soca & Fabián Peña and Juan-Sí González, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Cerejido has contributed to numerous publications and exhibition catalogues including “Constructing a Narrative, Building a Community” in Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Yale University Press (2010); “Cuban American Art” and “Beyond a Cuban-American Identity: The Influence of Ana Mendieta and Félix González-Torres in Contemporary Art’ in Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras, Greenwood Press (2012); “Collecting Moments: Unraveling Stories from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection of Latin American Art,” Pérez Art Museum Miami (2013); “Re-Thinking Diaspora: Cuban or Cuban American Art?” in Un Pueblo Disperso: Dimensiones sociales y culturales de la diáspora cubana, edited by Jorge Duany, Aduana Vieja Press (2013); and “Museum as Battleground: Exile and Contested Cultural Representation in Miami’s Cuban Museum” for the anthology titled Structuring Representation: Art Museums of Latin America, eds. Michele Greet and Gina M. Tarver (Routledge, 2018).

Dr. Cerejido was named the Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) in 2018.  She is currently working on an exhibition and accompanying catalogue titled Radical Conventions: Cuban American Art from the 1980s, co-presented by the CHC and the Lowe Art Museum, scheduled to open in March 2022.