Curator
Museo de Arte de Ponce

Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón has a BA from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, MA from The George Washington University, and a MPhil from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was the first Meadows/Kress/Prado Curatorial Fellow at the Meadows Museum (2011-2013), Lecturer and Gallery Coordinator at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Carolina (2017-2022), and is currently Curator at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her publications include essays in Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits, Impressions of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Vistas by Martín Rico, Spanish Art in America, and Museo de Arte de Ponce: Spanish Collection.

Since joining the Museum in April 2022, Ms. Rodriguez-Negrón has renewed the exhibition program at the Museum with two curatorial projects: Consonances: Reencounters with the Collection and Vis à vis: Artists from Ponce in Dialogue with the Collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce. She has also worked on the development of partnerships with other institutions, which includes curating the second exhibition of the alliance with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, The Golden Age of Spanish Art, and also curating the exhibition and editing the exhibition catalogue for Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962), in collaboration with the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture.