Opening Day Talk: Juana Valdés and Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D.

Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is an art historian, independent curator, and art critic. She received a Master’s in art history and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Miami. She is a founding and contributing editor of ArtNexus magazine. Since 1989, she has written about modern and contemporary art for magazines, newspapers, artists’ monographs, and exhibition catalogs. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbean art. She is the author of the book Essays on 20th-Century Latin American Art (Routledge, 2022). As an independent curator, she has organized over one hundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America. From 2008 to 2015, she worked as an adjunct curator at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. In July 2023, she co-curated with Juan Canela, the XXIII Bienal de Arte Paiz, in Guatemala. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, and The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation, Sarasota, Florida. She belongs to several professional organizations, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the College Art Association (CAA), the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and Art Table.