Staff Profile
Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
mary_schneider_enriquez@harvard.edu / 617-496-3640
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Harvard University
B.A., Harvard College
Mary Schneider Enriquez oversees the collections of Modern and Contemporary Art. Her scholarly interests focus on 20th- and 21st-century global art, with special emphasis on art from Latin America; art and politics; sculpture and installation; and the work of Mark Rothko. Recent exhibitions have included Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals (2014–15), Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning (2016–17), Fernando Bryce: The Book of Needs (2018), and Nam June Paik: Screen Play (2018).
Recent Publications
Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2016.
“Doris Salcedo: The Material Wound.” In The 9th Hiroshima Art Prize: Doris Salcedo, ed. Motoko Suhama and Hiromi Kojima. Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014.