E. Carmen Ramos

She is curator in chief and curator of Latin art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; He joined the museum staff at 2010. Since then, it has drastically expanded the museum's collection of Latin art with the aim of capturing the wide aesthetic and regional range of the field. His research interests include modern and contemporary Latin, Latin American and African American art.

Recently Ramos curated the exhibition Tamayo: The New York Years, (2017), which was the first exhibition to explore the influences between the great Mexican modernist Rufino Tamayo and the American art world. He is also writing a monograph on Freddy Rodriguez, as part of the book series To See: Revisioning Art History, published by the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA.

Ramos organized the exhibitions Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography (2017) y Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art (2013), which recently completed its roaming through several cities in the United States. The catalog received an award for excellence in the first prize of 2014 granted by the Association of Art Museum Curators.

Ramos earned a bachelor's degree from the University of New York (1988) and a master's degree (1995) and a PhD (2011) from the University of Chicago.

José Luis Blondet

Since 2010 Blondet is curator of Special Projects at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he has organized exhibitions such as Maria Nordman FILMROOM: SMOKE, 1967-Present (2011), Compass for Surveyors: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes from LACMA's Painting and Photography Collections (2013), Various Small Fires (2015) and Liz Glynn: The Myth of Singularity (2016). Blondet also programs and commissions theatrical and performance projects for the museum to artists such as Machine Project, Rachel Mason, Emily Mast, Asher Hartman, Guy de Cointent, and others.

Previously, Blondet worked for the Boston Center for the Arts and Dia Art Foundation in New York. In Caracas, José Luis was a professor at the School of Arts of the Central University of Venezuela and worked at the Museum of Fine Arts until 2001, when he left for New York to participate in the Curatorial program of Bard College thanks to a grant from the Collection Patricia Phelps Cisneros.

Emiliano Valdés

Emiliano Valdés is a curator, editor and cultural producer based in Medellin, Colombia and Guatemala City. He is currently the curator-in-chief of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín and Associate Curator of the 10 Biennial of Gwangju. Until recently, he was co-director of Proyectos Ultravioleta, a multifaceted platform for experimentation in contemporary art in Guatemala City and Curator / Chief of Visual Arts at the Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala, where for more than 5 years he developed an extensive program of exhibitions that transformed the country's art scene.

In 2012, he was the Curatorial Fellow of Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in dOCUMENTA (13). He has also been coordinator of temporary exhibitions at the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Madrid 2006-2007); Editor-in-Chief at Contemporary Magazines, (London, 2007-2009); Co-curator of the 8 Biennial of Nicaraguan Visual Arts (Nicaragua, 2011-2012); Curator of the XVII Paiz Biennial of Art (Guatemala, 2010).