NARRATIVE and OBJECTIVES

Dr. Julia P. Herzberg’s curatorial and publishing career spans more than three decades. She has held  curatorial positions at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University,  Miami; El Museo del Barrio, New York City; and the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,  New York City. Dr. Herzberg has been an adjunct or consulting curator at museums that include El Museo  de la Memoria y Derechos Humanos and The National Museum of Fine Art, both in Santiago, Chile; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Lehman College ArtGallery, Bronx, New  York; and the 8th, 9th, and 10th Havana Biennials. She has also taught as a visiting professor, associate and adjunct professor and lecturer in universities in the U.S. and Chile. [See her CV here.] 

As a scholar and curator, Herzberg addresses questions of presence and absence;  environmental issues; existential questions; political activism; modes of history; the problematics of representation; immigration and cross-border problems; exile and diaspora; political, social, and gender identities; war and violence; the field of DNA; the body as a political, social, historical, and racial agent; writing as imagery; and spirituality.  

Dr. Herzberg has particular interest in artists who cross or intersect with multiple disciplinary boundaries that feature sculpture, installation, performance art, video, film, sound,  and music. Her writing and curatorial practice are the result of her core research interests, which  are not media driven nor media specific. Rather, her research and direct communication with  artists offer the audience and readership a possibility of emotional, poetic, and intellectual discovery, historical reflection, and an opportunity to reconsider the political and social spaces we inhabit today.  

“My art historical career has been intertwined with the histories of the world at large. I  am drawn to art and artists who deal with the ethics of humanity, global and postcolonial effects of culture, and universal dilemmas that we share—whether in the Western world or around the  globe. My writings in this website are conceived to offer the reader a substantive understanding of the artist’s voice.”