2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Elizabeth Ferrer

Saturday, March 06, 2010 @ 10:00am, Salon E

"Is There a Latino Photographic History?"

Elizabeth Ferrer is director of contemporary art at the multidisciplinary arts organization BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn. A specialist in Mexican and Latino photography, she has extensive experience as a curator and writer. Ferrer is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York, Aperture Foundation, 2006), a monograph on the pioneering modern Mexican photographer; she also curated the retrospective exhibition on the photographer shown at the Smithsonian Institution, among other institutions. Ferrer has curated major exhibitions on various aspects of Mexican photography and is author of the forthcoming FotoFest publication surveying Latino photography in the United States. She co-edited the Museum of Modern Art's landmark publication Latin American Artists of the 20th Century and has written for Art Nexus, Sculpture, Photography, Nueva Luz, and Art News.