Deborah Cullen-Morales

Deborah Cullen-Morales, PhD, is senior program officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation. Previously, she served as executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts; director and chief curator of the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University; director of curatorial programs at El Museo del Barrio; and curator of the print collection at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. Her work has focused on modern and contemporary Latinx, Caribbean, and African American art. She co-founded El Museo’s Trienal in 1999 and founded the Wallach’s Uptown Triennial in 2017. She served as curator of Interruption: The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts (MGLC, Ljubljana, 2013), chief curator of The Hive: The Third Poligraphic Trienal of San Juan (ICP, Puerto Rico, 2012), and curator of Arte  Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000 (El Museo del Barrio, 2008), for which she received a 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Among other publications, Cullen-Morales recently co-edited A Handbook of Latinx Art (UC Press, 2025).