NEW YORK.- Richard C. Buckley, Managing Director of Sotheby’s North and South America, announced the appointment today of Marysol Nieves as Specialist in Latin American Art. Ms. Nieves will be based in New York as an Assistant Vice President of the department, which is led by Carmen Melián, Director of Latin American Art.

Speaking of the appointment, Mr. Buckley said, “We are very pleased that Marysol is joining Sotheby’s, bringing a breadth of experience from a number of museums and institutions in the field. Marysol has a wide background in Contemporary Art and Latin American Art and will be a great addition to our team.”

Marysol Nieves has over fifteen years of experience working in the Contemporary and Latin American Art fields. Most recently she served as Curator of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) in San Juan where she organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as The Figurative Impulse: Works from The UBS Art Collection (2005), Dzine: Beautiful Otherness (2006,) and the new works series, Sala de Proyectos @ MAPR, highlighting new art by emerging local and international artists, including Edra Soto (2005), Allora & Calzadilla (2006), Anthony Goicolea (2006) and the forthcoming Milton Rosa-Ortiz (2006).

Prior to her tenure at MAPR, she held the positions of Director of Visual Arts at The Americas Society in New York, a non-profit organization with a stellar exhibition record in the field of Latin American art, and Senior Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA) where she oversaw the Museum’s collection partially devoted to Twentieth Century and Contemporary Latino and Latin American Art. At BxMA she also organized numerous exhibitions and publications, including solo projects of the work of Rimer Cardillo (1998), Carlos Garaicoa (2000), María Elena González (2002), Liliana Porter (1992), Ernesto Pujol (1997), Juan Sánchez (1998) Valeska Soares (2003), and Judi Werthein (2002). In 2005-06, she co-organized El Museo’s Bienal; The (S)Files presented at El Museo del Barrio, New York and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. She has received numerous distinctions, most recently ArtTable’s New Leadership in the Visual Arts Award. Ms. Nieves currently serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Books Arts, En Foco, Inc., and The UBS Art Collection.

Nieves received an MA in 19th and 20th Century Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a BA in Art History from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. Sotheby’s next sales of Latin American Art will be held on November 20-21, 2006 in New York.