Susanna V. Temkin joined to El Museo del Barrio (New York) as Curator in August of 2018. Temkin is responsible for all aspects of the production and implementation of temporary, Permanent Collection, and travelling museum exhibitions, as well as related programming and printed matter. Moreover, Temkin will interface with a broad public, including artists, community members, colleagues and students, regarding the art, artists, and programs related to El Museo.
Temkin was Assistant Curator at the Americas Society, where she co-curated an exhibition of Brazilian artist Jose Leonilson. In addition, under Deborah Cullen, then Chief Curator of El Museo del Barrio, she supported the department with the exhibitions Nexus New York, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement and Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer.
Previously, Temkin served as the research and archive specialist at Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. Her curatorial experience also includes a 2014 sculpture exhibition by Argentinean New York-based artist Marta Chillindron at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, whose work is included in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection. Temkin has also published essays and reviews in the Rutgers Art Review, Burlington Magazine, and Hemispheres, and has authored the chronology of Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, produced by David Zwirner Books. She earned her master's and PhD degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas.
Temkin was Assistant Curator at the Americas Society, where she co-curated an exhibition of Brazilian artist Jose Leonilson. In addition, under Deborah Cullen, then Chief Curator of El Museo del Barrio, she supported the department with the exhibitions Nexus New York, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement and Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer.
Previously, Temkin served as the research and archive specialist at Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. Her curatorial experience also includes a 2014 sculpture exhibition by Argentinean New York-based artist Marta Chillindron at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, whose work is included in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection. Temkin has also published essays and reviews in the Rutgers Art Review, Burlington Magazine, and Hemispheres, and has authored the chronology of Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, produced by David Zwirner Books. She earned her master's and PhD degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas.
