Biography

Dr. Cerejido is a curator, art historian, and administrator whose professional and academic work has focused on modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art, with a specialization in the visual arts and cultural politics of Cuba and its diaspora.  She served as curator for the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University and later as Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.  She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and publications, including Museum as Battleground: Exile and Contested Cultural Representation in Miami’s Cuban Museum (2018).  In 2014, Cerejido received a Knight Arts Challenge grant for “Dialogues in Cuban Art,” which brought together Cuban and Cuban American artists and curators through cultural exchanges and symposia in both Miami and Havana.  She recently curated Radical Conventions: Cuban American Art from the 1980 presented at the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum in collaboration with the Cuban Heritage Collection.  Cerejido served as Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection from 2018 through 2022 and is currently Curator for Cuban Collections.