Susanna V. Temkin is Senior Curator at El Museo del Barrio, and holds a PhD. degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art from Cuba. At El Museo she has curated or co-organized the exhibitions Flow States-La Trienal 2024; Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección (2023-2024); Juan Francisco Elso: Por América (2022); Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21; and Culture and the People (2019), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin has published essays and reviews in publications and exhibition catalogues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alice Neel: People Come First (2001), and authored the timeline of Concrete Cuba (2016), published by David Zwirner.
Susanna V. Temkin

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