About

Adriana Cisneros Phelps de Griffin

Adriana Cisneros is CEO of Cisneros, a privately held company with over 90 years of experience operating businesses globally. The company today has three divisions: Cisneros Media, Cisneros Interactive, and Cisneros Real Estate. She is president of the Fundación Cisneros, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving access to education in Latin America. She is on the board of MoMA’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee (LACF), a board member of Endeavor Miami, and a director and trustee of the Paley Center for Media. She is also a board member of Mattel, Inc., Parrot Analytics, the Knight Foundation, and University of Miami. Adriana is a member of the Citibank Private Bank Latin American Advisory Board as well as an Advisory Board member of Wyncode and TheVentureCity, and she was recently appointed as head of strategy for AST & Science.

She holds a BA from Columbia University (2002) and an MA in journalism from New York University (2005). Cisneros is a Henry Crown Fellow, a term member at the Council of Foreign Relations, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s 2010 Program for Leadership Development.

Stuart Comer

Stuart Comer is the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. He oversees the Department of Media and Performance collection and program of exhibitions, events, and acquisitions, as well as the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio. Since his appointment, Comer’s projects at MoMA have included member: Pope.L, 1978–2001 (2019), Haegue Yang: Handles (2019), Tania Bruguera: Untitled (Havana, 2000) (2018), Inbox: Steve McQueen (2017), Inbox: Charles Atlas (2017), Alexandra Bachzetsis’s Massacre: Variations on a Theme (2017), Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers (at MoMA PS1, 2016), BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE (2016), Tony Oursler: Imponderable (2016), Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project (2016), Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 (2015), Juliana Huxtable: There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed (2015), Cut to Swipe (2014), and Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine: illlummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!! (2014). He was the first curator of Film at Tate from 2004 to 2013 and he co-curated the 2014 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Tom Cummins

Tom Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and a member of the American Academy of Art and Science. He taught for 11 years at the University of Chicago, where he was the director of the Center of Latin American Studies. He was also the acting director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He has lived and taught in France (L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris), Argentina (La Universidad de Buenos Aires), Colombia (La Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), Ecuador (FLACSO. Quito), Chile (La Universidad de Choile, Santiago and the university of Chile), and Peru (La Católica). He was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book by the Modern Language Association in 2014, and the Bryce Wood Book Award to the outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association, in 2013. He is the coeditor, with Steve Koisiba and John Janusek, of Sacred Matters: Animsim and Auhtority in the Pre-Columbian Americas. In 2011 he was awarded La Orden “Al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos” en el Grado de Gran Cruz by the Republic of Peru.

He is also the codirector of Conceptual Stumblings, funded in part by Chile’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) and the Ministry of the Economy. He is the director of the Arts at Doctor class, which brings artists, writers, scholars, performances, and exhibitions to Harvard. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Dumbarton Oaks (Washington DC), I Tatti (Florence).

Mimi Haas

Mimi Haas is president of the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, a position she has held since August of 1981. She is the vice chair of the Board of Trustees, chair of the Compensation Committee, and chair of the Governance Committee of The Museum of Modern Art; vice chair of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and a member of the boards of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Shed. She is also a member of the National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle. Haas was a fellow at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. She previously served on the board of Levi Strauss & Co for two separate terms (2004–06, 2014–18), the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University, the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco University High School, Summerbridge National, and Children Now.

Harper Montgomery

Harper Montgomery teaches in the Art and Art History Department at Hunter College in New York City. She has written for the Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and the Brooklyn Rail, and has organized exhibitions on 19th-century, 20th-century, and contemporary art for the galleries of Hunter College. Her book The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America was published in 2017 by University of Texas Press and won the Arvey Foundation Book Award for distinguished scholarship on Latin American Art. Her current research, for which she has received a Dedalus Foudation Fellowship, concerns the ascent of artesanía within contemporary art spaces in Latin America between the 1970s and the late 1980s.

Jay A. Levenson

Jay A. Levenson has served as the director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art since 1996, where he manages the Museum’s exchange and research programs in relation with institutions in other countries. Prior to that he was deputy director for program administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he helped prepare such major exhibitions as Africa: The Art of a Continent and China: 5000 Years. He has served as guest curator on a number of exhibitions, including Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration (1991) and The Age of the Baroque in Portugal (1993) for the National Gallery of Art, and Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2007) for the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and holder of a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, he has held positions as both a curator and a museum administrator, and as an attorney.

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro is senior advisor to the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York and Caracas, of which he was director and chief curator from 2008 to 2018. He was chief curator of the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2018), and curator of the Brazilian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). He was curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, from 2002 to 2008, and director of visual arts at the Americas Society, New York. In 2007 he was chief curator of the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has a PhD in art history and theory from the University of Essex and has published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art from Latin America. He is also a member of the Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization.