Julia Herzberg

Art Historian, Independent Curator, and Fulbright Senior Specialist Julia’s work is centered on the research, scholarship, and cultural production of artistic practices within interdisciplinary global contexts. She has worked as a consulting curator at the Patricia and David Frost Museum at Florida International University, where she curated Navjot Altaf: Lacuna in Testimony and Nela Ochoa: DNA and Art (2009). She has also been a consulting curator for the 8th, 9th, and 10th Havana Biennial (2003, 2006, 2009). In 1991, she was the curator for the Official US Representation for the III International Biennial of Painting Cuenca, Ecuador. Since 1990 Dr. Herzberg has organized more than twenty-five exhibitions of artists including Wifredo Lam, Sandra Bermudez, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Leandro Katz, Pepón Osorio, Ernesto Pujol, Monika Weiss, Catalina Parra, Franco Mondini–Ruiz, Leandro Erlich, and Chen, Xiaoyung. These extensively researched exhibitions exemplify her wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary, multinational, and aesthetic interests. Dr. Herzberg has also taught, lectured, and published extensively in the United States and abroad.

Contributions

Julia Herzberg in conversation with Catalina Parra

After presenting during a C-MAP Latin America session at MoMA, artist Catalina Parra joined independent critic and curator Julia Herzberg for a conversation about her work. Herzberg, long-time researcher of Parra’s production, conducted an interview that went from politics to education and from Chile to Germany, with occasional stops in New York and Buenos Aires.…