Edward J. Sullivan

Ph.D. 1979 (Fine Arts), M.A. 1975 (Fine Arts), M.A. 1972 (Spanish and Portuguese), B.A. 1971 (Fine Arts and Spanish and Portuguese), New York University.

Arts of the Americas (Latin America and the Caribbean); Global exchanges: Latin America, Africa, Asia including the Philippines; Arts of Portugal and Spain 16th-20th centuries; Latinx Art.

Guggenheim Fellow (2003); Samuel H. Kress Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies; American Philosophical Society; Program for Cultural Cooperation Between the Ministry of Culture of Spain and North American Universities; American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies; Victoria Ocampo Award, Escuela de Administracion Cultural, Buenos Aires, 1997.

Selected Books and Book-length Exhibition Catalogues:

Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx (New York: The New York Botanical Garden 2019) principal author and co-editor. Curator of exhibition

Processing: Paintings and Prints by Roberto Juarez (exhibition catalogue) Boulder (Co.) Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018. Curator and author of catalogue

Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960 (Global Perspectives Art History, 2018)

From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014)

Observed: Milagros de la Torre (New York: Americas Society and Lima, Peru: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2012) curated exhibition and wrote principal essay in catalogue

Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculptures by Esteban Vicente (with Lynn Gumpert) exhibition catalogue (New York: Grey Art Gallery, NYU) 2011

Nueva York: 1613-1945 (editor and essayist) (New York: Scala Books, 2010)

Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico 1935-1950 (Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2008)

Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié (editor and author of principal essay) (Miami: Haitian Cultural Alliance, 2008)

The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

Emilio Pettoruti (with Nelly Perrazo) (Buenos Aires: LaMarca Editora, 2004)

Tomas Sánchez (with Gabriel García Márquez) (New York: Skira, 2003)

Brazil: Body & Soul (editor and principal author) (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Harry N. Abrams, 2001)

Selected Book Chapters and Articles:

“Re-thinking Roberto Burle Marx” in online journal PLATFORM, CUNY: The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, February 2021

“Les Choses Américaines: Histoires réelles, métaphorique et anachroniques de traumatisme, colonialisme, d’esclavage et de terreur sociale à travers les âges et les géographies de l’hémisphère” published in online journal Arts et Sociétés de Séminaire (Paris: Sciences Po, March 2021)

“Xawery Wolski: Intimate Conversations with Nature” in Xawery Wolski (Milan: Skira, 2020) pp. 15-27

“El arte brasileño en el extranjero: exposiciones y adquisiciones desde 1940 hasta hoy” in exhibition catalogue (eds. María Sánchez Llorens and Manuel Fontan del Junco) Lina Bo Bardi: Tupi or Not Tupi (Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2019)

“New MoMA Offers Pleasures & Possibilities for Learning More” Art News online and (hard copy) December 2019

“Trace and Testimony: The Drawings of Marcelo Bonevardi” in exhibition catalogue Marcelo Bonevardi. Magic Made Manifest (Miami: Lowe Art Museum, 2019), pp. 6-9

“Black Visualities in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” in Henry Louis Gates Jr. and David Bindman (eds.) Image of the Black in Western Art (forthcoming 2022)

“Marjua Mallo transatlántica: Mujeres artistas en las vanguardias del continente Americano” in Antonio Gómez Conde, Guillermo de Osma and Juan Pérez de Ayala (eds.) Maruja Mallo. Catálogo razonado de óleos (Madrid: Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía and Fundación Azcona, 2021) pp. 435-449

“José Gurvich. Between Tradition and Radicality” in exhibition catalogue José Gurvich (1927-1974) (Montevideo and Washington D.C.: Galería Al Sur and Embassy of Uruguay in U.S., 2018), pp. 23-25

“Gurvich en Nueva York: una relación conflictiva,” in exhibition catalogue José Gurvich. Cruzando Fronteras (Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno, 2013) pp. 151-167

“Geometry and Gesture: Notes on Abstractions in the Americas,” in exhibition catalogue Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States. University of Miami: Lowe Art Museum, 2013, pp. 25-51

“Information Networks: Collecting and Display of Latin American Art in the United States,” in the exhibition catalogue Order, Chaos and the Space Between. Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection(Phoenix Art Museum: 2013, pp. 105-118

“From the Studio to the Street,” in Juan García de Oteyza (ed.) Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality (Mexico City: Turner Libros), 2012, pp. 9-12

“Displaying the Caribbean. Thirty Years of Exhibitions and collecting in the United States,” in Deborah Cullen and Elvis Fuentes (eds.) Caribbean. Art at the Crossroads of the World (New York: el Museo del Barrio and Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 343-365

“Revelando los inicios de una carrera excepcional,” in Christian Padilla, Fernando Botero. La búsqueda de un estilo (Bogotá, Editorial La Bachué, 2012) pp. 12-13

“Cesar Paternosto: A Celebratory Interchange” and “Edward J. Sullivan Interview with Cesar Paternosto,” in exhibition catalogue Cesar Paternosto. Painting as Object: The Lateral Expansion. New Works (New York: Cecilia de Torres Gallery, 2012), pp. 35-45

“Erasing Borders,” Art in America, September, 2012, pp. 49-52

“Introduction” Bonevardi Works. Bonevardi-Bennett Collaborations (Buenos Aires, Fundación Alón para las Artes, 2012) pp. 9-16ó

“Silent Witness: The Photographic Art of Milagros de la Torre,” in exhibition catalogue Observed. Milagros de la Torre (New York: Americas Society and Lima: MALI, 2012) pp. 10-25

“Mario H. Gradowczyk: Scholar of Modern and Contemporary Art,” in exhibition catalogue Esteban Lisa: Playing with Lines and Color (Long Beach, Ca. Museum of Latin American Art, 2012) pp. 45-56

“Entre la estática y el movimiento: La naturaleza muerta de José Gurvich,” in anthology Los mundos fantásticos de José Gurvich (Montevideo: Museo Jose Gurvich, 2011), pp. 75-89

“Señas de la luz: Caminos de creatividad y significado en la obra de Ada Balcácer,” in the exhibition catalogue Alas y raices: Ada Balcácer (Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic: Centro cultural Eduardo León Jiménez, 2011), pp. 9-39

“The Lives of Objects: Remembering Claudio Bravo,” Art News, November, 2011, p, 60

“The Art of Claudio Bravo (1936-2011)” Confrontation, no. 110, Fall, 2011, pp. 158-170

“Between Two dimensions: Paintings by Isabel Obaldía,” in exhibition catalogue Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel Obaldía Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, 2011, pp. 37-45

“Art Worlds of Nueva York” in Sullivan (ed.) Nueva York. 1613-1945 (New York: Scala Publishers, 2010), pp. 173-215

“Rafael Ferrer in the Tropics: Encounters with Caribbean Art,” in exhibition catalogue Rafael Ferrer (New York: El Museo del Barrio), 2010, pp. 53-65

“Navigating Between the Continents: Further Thoughts on Edouard Duval Carrié’s Work,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 27, October, 2008, pp. 165-174

“Lost in Translation? Juan Luna Between Manila and Madrid” in exhibition catalogue Pioneers of Philippine Modernism (San Francisco: The Asian Art Museum, 2006 pp. 54-82)

“The Black Hand: Notes on the African Presence in Brazil and the Caribbean in the Colonial Period,” in exhibition catalogue The Arts of Latin America 1492-1820 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006 pp. 39-55)

“Naturalezas mexicanas: Objects as Cultural Signifiers in Mexican Art c. 1760-1885,” in Stephen Melville (ed.) The Lure of the Object (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) (Williamstown: Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005, pp. 59-71)