#  Mary Schneider Enriquez 

Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

 

 

 



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Mary Schneider Enriquez is the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. In 2020-21 she curated Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Portrait, and she was Co-Curator in 2019-20 of the museums exhibition, Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary art. In 2016-17, she curated the Harvard Art Museums exhibitions Doris Salcedo: the Materiality of Mourning and wrote the accompanying catalogue published by Yale Univ. Press, Fernando Bryce: The Book of Needs in 2018 and co-curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play the same year. Previously, she curated the 2014-15 exhibition Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals and directed the commission and installation of the sculpture by artist Carlos Amorales for the museums central courtyard. As an independent curator Mary co-curated Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection in 2001 at the Harvard Art Museums and in 2004, Robert Matta: Making the Invisible Visible at the McMullen Museum at Boston College. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues, and written extensively on contemporary art for ARTnews and Art Nexus magazines. She received her Doctorate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## People
    
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- ## Programs & Initiatives
    
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