{"id":68492,"date":"2025-09-16T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:12:09","slug":"perez-art-museum-miami-names-jose-carlos-diaz-next-chief-curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68492\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami Names Jos\u00e9 Carlos Diaz Next Chief Curator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami in Florida has named Jos\u00e9 Carlos Diaz<\/a> its new senior director of curatorial affairs and chief curator. Diaz will begin in his role October 13, succeeding Gilbert Vicario, who departed the institution this past February.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiaz has been deputy director of art at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) since July 2022, where he oversaw curatorial programs, as well as those at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park. He oversaw the rollout of the \u201cCalder at SAM\u201d initiative, which built on Jon and Kim Shirley\u2019s gift of 48 Calder works worth $200 million in 2023. That gift was the subject of a 2023\u201324 exhibition that Diaz curated, \u201cCalder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAt SAM, he also curated a solo show for Anila Quayyum Agha and a long-term installation for FriendsWithYou, and he served as the institutional curator for traveling shows for Suchitra Mattai and Hokusai.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe appointment is a homecoming for Diaz, a Miami native who previously worked at PAMM when it was still known as the Miami Art Museum. He was also a curatorial intern at another local institution, the Rubell Collection (now the Rubell Museum), early in his career, during the early 2000s. Around this time, he also founded Worm-Hole Laboratory, an alternative art space sited in his apartment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMiami has changed so much,\u201d Diaz told ARTnews. \u201cThe city has certainly grown, artists have moved there, and a new generation of artists have developed since two decades ago when Art Basel started. One of the success stories is that it\u2019s become this sophisticated art metropolis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDiaz returned to Miami working as curator of exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art from 2013 to 2016, after holding curatorial roles at Tate Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennial. In 2016 Diaz was appointed chief curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, where he stayed for six years before leaving for his current role at the Seattle Art Museum. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview, PAMM director Franklin Sirmans said Diaz will bring \u201ca fresh eye and vision.\u201d Sirmans characterized him as an \u201cincredibly well-rounded curator\u201d who is \u201cgenerous in terms of his curatorial leadership,\u201d adding that \u201che has a unique vantage point in thinking about what Miami needs from what we like to believe is its flagship institution, PAMM.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt PAMM, Diaz said he is interested in growing the collection. The museum\u2019s holdings have steadily expanded over the past six years, with the museum now in possession of 3,500 objects. One of the collection\u2019s strengths is Latin American and Latinx art, particularly from the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s growing rapidly, and Jos\u00e9\u2019s wisdom and guidance is going to be the exciting part about how that collection evolves,\u201d Sirmans said of PAMM\u2019s permanent collection. \u201cI can\u2019t think of anyone better to think through those things together and with Jos\u00e9 at this point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom a curatorial perspective, Diaz said the museum\u2019s exhibition slate must have a \u201cglobal perspective,\u201d particularly in terms of conversations about art from the Global South, which PAMM has a history of doing. Similarly, he said he was interested in \u201cconsidering how PAMM can also represent other types of exhibitions that are not just focused around fine art,\u201d like fashion, design, and architecture. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDiaz also said that he thinks of an institution like PAMM as a \u201cthird space, where people can come, not just for the art, but for meeting their friends or programmatic things like music, dancing, yoga, that sort of thing,\u201d he said. \u201cI love making art experiences as accessible as possible [and] making those experiences welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSirmans added, \u201cJos\u00e9 brings something to the conversation that so many are interested in, in terms of how we talk about art in a global fashion [and] how can we make art more a part of people\u2019s lives on a day-to-day basis here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami in Florida has named Jos\u00e9 Carlos Diaz its new senior director of curatorial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,47694,47695],"class_list":{"0":"post-68492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-josu00e9-carlos-diaz","18":"tag-perez-art-museum-miami"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}