LONDON.- Tate announced that it has appointed Inti Guerrero (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) as its new Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, to focus on further developing the representation of art from Latin America in Tate’s collection. Inti Guerrero will take up the post formally on 4th January 2016 for a period of three years. This post forms part of a commitment to develop Tate’s knowledge and expertise in Latin American art and Guerrero will be the fourth such curator at Tate (following Cuauhtémoc Medina, Julieta González and José Roca), working with Tate’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee and in collaboration with curators at Tate.

Until recently Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space in San José, Costa Rica, Guerrero studied Art and Architecture History and Theory and General History at Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia and University of São Paulo in Brazil. He is also a former fellow of De Appel’s curatorial programme in the Netherlands.

Guerrero has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo-MAMSP, the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, the Museum of Art of Rio-MAR in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino and Para Site in Hong Kong, amongst other institutions in Latin America, as well as in Europe and Asia. In 2014 he co-curated, with Shoair Mavlian, the exhibition Chronicle of Interventions at Tate Modern’s Project Space, later traveling to TEOR/éTica. Currently he forms part of the curatorial team of Aún [Yet]the 44th Salón Nacional de Artistas, a major biennial exhibition that has taken place in Colombia since 1940.

Ann Gallagher and Frances Morris, Directors of the Collection at Tate, said: “We look forward to welcoming Inti Guerrero to Tate. His expertise and experience will be hugely beneficial to deepening our knowledge of art from this region.”

Inti Guerrero said: “I am honoured to have been selected to take up this post previously held by colleagues and curators whom I hold in great regard. I look forward to working closely with the Latin American Acquisitions Committee (LAAC) on expanding the scope of Tate’s approach to and understanding of Latin American art and on enriching the particularity and complexity of the institution’s collection. Since the early 2000s Tate has admirably pioneered the acquisition policies of contemporary art outside Western art canons, contributing to the establishment of a new mode of practice for international institutions.”