Visiting Artist Lecture: Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa

Margarita Lila Rosa is a Harlem-based scholar and independent curator specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art. Her curatorial and academic work has been written about in Ebony, Hyperallergic, and Teen Vogue. Dr. Rosa is a Lecturer in the Black and Latino Studies Department at Baruch College. In 2024, she was a fellow in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis. She has written for the Museum of Modern Art and has art history essays in The Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and Frieze, among others. Rosa’s curatorial focus is modern Latin American art and contemporary international feminist art. Her recent shows include Sula Playing in the Dark, at the Bishop Gallery, and Tigueras, a show of Black and Latinx women artists on billboards across New York.